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This New AI Copilot Is Your Guardian Angel During A Deposition

Law Sites

What if you could have an invisible guardian angel sitting on your shoulder during a deposition, whispering in your ear to point out questions you’ve asked awkwardly, inconsistencies in the witness’s testimony, and points needing follow-up or explication?

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HOW TO PREPARE YOUR CLIENT FOR THEIR DEPOSITION by Lita Luvera

Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail” Benjamin Franklin In our office, my law partner and wife, Lita Barnett Luvera, legal responsibilities included preparing clients and witness for their deposition. Too often, lawyers tend to schedule an hour or two in their office on the day of the deposition to prepare their client.

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Felder Part 2 of 4:  Defendant Sanctioned for Late Cancellation of Depositions

E-Discovery LLC

defendant was sanctioned for belatedly canceling depositions that were scheduled at the discovery cutoff date. In this employment discrimination case, the defendant had noted depositions of Ms. Jones’ deposition. We notified you as soon as we learned the depositions would not be going forward.” 7, 2024)(Simms, J.),

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Privilege Waiver by: Disclosure to Therapist; and, in Rule 30(b)(6) Deposition Preparation

E-Discovery LLC

Second , where a Rule 30(b)(6) deponent reviewed an allegedly privileged document in deposition preparation in order to refresh her memory, the privilege, if any, was waived. One takeaway from the decision is that caution may be prudent in determining whether to use privileged information to prepare a corporate designee for deposition.

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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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Deposition Misconduct: Rules, Risks, and Remedies

WA Bar News

In this column, we’ll address a narrower, but more common, subset of deposition misconduct that the ABA opinion touches on: improper “coaching” during depositions and improper objections intended to impede the questioner. 10 Second, we’ll focus on depositions rather than hearings or trials. Washington RPC 4.4(a)

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Discovery of Surveillance Video is Permitted Only After Deposition of Plaintiff

E-Discovery LLC

Plaintiff also presented a fall-back privilege log issue: “Plaintiff argues that if Defendant is permitted to withhold the video until after his deposition, he should be required to include more detail on his privilege log, including exact dates of surveillance and descriptions of the video(s)’ contents.”