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Top 5 Tips: Taking Depositions in a Post-Pandemic World

Attorney at Work

While much of the world stopped last year, depositions didn’t. Cases forged ahead and lawyers scrambled to establish new ways of taking depositions and handling proceedings that, for decades, had been routine. But if you follow these five tips, you’ll be ready to handle any deposition that comes your way in the post-pandemic world.

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Is a “Composite” Video Admissible and Can a Police Officer “Narrate” It at Trial? – Part 1 of 2

E-Discovery LLC

This first blog addresses the admissibility of a “composite” video prepared by the prosecution. Second , while the source materials “need not be introduced into evidence,” they must be “otherwise admissible.” An innocent bystander was fatally shot while she was with her husband on a hotel patio in Annapolis. 1003 and 1005.

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Why Depositions Matter More

The Cloud Court Blog

“The deposition is the new trial.” – Jim Garrity, 10,000 Depositions Later podcast Jim Garrity, an employment attorney based in Florida, has produced scores of podcasts and published multiple books on the topic of depositions. And today, almost all testimony is in the form of deposition testimony for the reasons cited above.

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Biomedical Expert Witness Testimony Allowed in Ship Negligence Case

Expert Witness Blog

Summary – Biomedical Expert Witness testimony allowed even though the defense argued that the expert was not qualified to provide an opinion on unsafe conditions even though she is not a marine safety expert. The plaintiff hired Biomedical Expert Witness Susan M. Bowley to provide expert witness testimony.

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Litigators with a Data Fetish: Moneyballing Testimony

The Cloud Court Blog

I am obsessed with depositions and, in particular, their importance to the outcome of cases. That obsession extends to deposition data as well as to the psychology of the players involved: the attorneys taking and defending depositions; the witnesses being deposed; as well as the court reporters.

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Social Media Evidence: What You Need To Know

Evidence at Trial

Regardless of its merit, social media is here to stay and disputes over admissibility or exclusion are commonplace in today's trials. Whether it's a deposition or trial testimony, lawyers tend to think that laying a foundation for a document requires a long and tedious windup of meaningless and repetitive questions. ” Cal.

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Strobel v. Johnson & Johnson: Got a Hearsay Problem? Don't Give Up.

Evidence at Trial

This is the witness who says, "I just came from outside and it’s raining." If the witness is believed, the fact it is raining is conclusively true. Section 411 says that except where a statute may require additional evidence, direct evidence from just one witness may be sufficient. The witness may say, "I saw Ms.