A great deal of the evidence offered at a trial or hearing in the Surrogate’s Court is hearsay, or at least appears to be hearsay. What did the decedent say? What did his attorney hear from others?

In his Complex Litigation column, Michael Hoenig discusses the hearsay rule and some of its exceptions, particularly focusing on the newly revised revised Rule 807, which is now seemingly more ...

Federal court practitioners should be aware that, as of December 1, 2019, the Federal Rules of Evidence’s “Residual Hearsay Exception,” Rule 807, has been revised. The revisions are intended to create ...

In the first installment of this two-part Medical Malpractice Defense column, John Lyddane discusses the origin and historical development of the professional reliability exception to the general rule ...