Pat Parker & Associates
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Pat Parker & Associates Relevant Facts Pat Parker was a law school graduate who started a consulting firm called Pat Parker & Associates and specialized in conducting opposition research and writing reports for political candidates, primarily for the Democratic Party. This case is about how Pat Parker developed a research report for Democratic nominee, Dale Jackson for the statewide Attorney General position. Two years later, representatives of the State Academy of Trial Lawyers wanted to buy the same research document on the Republican Attorney General, Terry Paine in what Parker believed to be an effort to inoculate their candidate during an upcoming election. Parker wasn't sure how to proceed knowing that this could potentially jeopardize the political party's candidate or even worse, could be arrested for soliciting the information. The evidence presented in this case was concerned with ownership and the control of research created by one party for use by another. Legal...

