Legal Series: Internet and E-Mail: Admissibility Issues of Electronic Evidence at Trial Explored

Nicole D. Galli is a partner with the Benesch’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. She focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, including intellectual property litigation, and intellectual property counseling. Ms. Galli has litigated patent and patent licensing, trademark, copyright, trade secret, false advertising, consumer fraud, unfair competition, antitrust and general commercial matters and counsels clients in various aspects of intellectual property. She has handled matters for clients in a variety of industries including medical devices, software, consumer electronics, automotive, energy, hospitality, food and beverage, construction, manufacturing and health care. Ms. Galli’s clients range from small start-up companies to the largest national and international companies. She has also represented a number of cultural institutions and other non-profits. Ms. Galli regularly counsels clients in the emerging area of social media, where the issues that arise can overlap a number legal disciplines, as well as raise entirely new issues not yet addressed by existing law.

John J. Jablonski is the chair of Goldberg Segalla’s E-Discovery Practice Group, a co-chair of the firm’s Cyber Risk and Social Media Practice Group, and a frequent author and lecturer on electronic discovery issues. He focuses his practice on complex e-discovery issues, including admissibility challenges related to electronic evidence, best practices and rules regarding records retention, compliance with evolving regulatory requirements, data breaches and other forms of cyber liability, and legal holds. He was a principal author of the amicus brief filed by Lawyers for Civil Justice in Voom HD Holdings v. Echostar Satellite, one of the most significant e-discovery cases in New York. Mr. Jablonski is the national chair of the electronic discovery section of the Defense Research Institute.

Zachary represents public and private companies, national banking associations, commercial lenders, leasing companies, and hedge funds in business litigation throughout the United States. His practice focuses on Banking Litigation (enforcing multimillion dollar credit facilities on behalf of national and regional banks and institutional and specialty lenders, securing provisional remedies, and defending lender liability litigation); Commercial Litigation (litigating contract disputes, commercial insurance claims, aircraft lease disputes, unfair competition and restrictive covenants, bankruptcy disputes and judgment enforcement); Fiduciary Litigation (contested accountings, Prudent Investor Act claims, and breach of fiduciary duty claims); and Art and Antique Litigation (national and international reacquisition of lost or stolen art, repossessions and liquidations and disputes regarding valuations, fraudulent auctions, consignor-lender issues and lien priority).