WA Bar News

JUNE 11, 2024

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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Steno

JANUARY 6, 2025

Executive Summary Challenge: After decades of litigation experience, attorney Mike Marzban recognized that colleagues were often too shy to provide candid feedback on his deposition technique. He needed an objective way to evaluate his performance and identify potential blind spots in his questioning strategies.

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E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 16, 2024

13, 2024), the court began its decision of discovery issues with: “At the hearing Plaintiffs tried to walk back this [discovery] request and said it was limited to refund data, rather than a wholesale redo of non-custodial discovery. In that time, StubHub has taken 35 depositions and moved for summary judgment.

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E-Discovery LLC

MAY 31, 2024

This case is, in part, a trade secret case involving alleged misappropriation of source code, so requests seeking production of source code and related data are an expected part of discovery…. The court proceeded to resolve a number of other discovery issues. 1, 2023)( untimely discovery objection was waived); cf.

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Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

JUNE 27, 2024

There are a volume of available ideas and outlines for the discovery deposition of a medical malpractice expert including advice to not take the deposition at all in some circumstances. FULL DETAILS 5 HOW MANY PAST DEPOSITIONS GIVEN? Here is a very basic outline, you can use as a format for your case.

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E-Discovery LLC

MARCH 8, 2025

Plaintiff essentially ignored its obligations under the discovery order and made no attempt to even contact a vendor until after the order was entered by Magistrate Judge Jackson. The court wrote that it then adopted Defendants protocol [as an order] and no objection to that order was filed. 2] That objection was timely.

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E-Discovery LLC

MAY 30, 2024

PNI objected to discovery in part by asserting several privileges. After document was used in a deposition, PNI sought a “clawback” under the ESI Protocol. As it stands, the discovery period in this case expires on June 5, 2024 (a date the parties jointly requested approximately a month ago)….

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E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 13, 2024

The Court “presided over a discovery dispute hearing related to Plaintiff’s motions to compel interrogatory requests and requests for production of documents, and related to a motion for a protective order filed by the Defendant.” Sometimes Discovery Disputes Do Not Bring Out the Best in Us – Part II (Jun. 7, 2024)(Simms, J.),

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E-Discovery LLC

JANUARY 15, 2025

Plaintiffs sought class certification discovery. Plaintiffs asserted, however, that Defendant insists on keeping its relevant custodians and data sources to itself (or at least forcing Plaintiffs to try and discover the same through interrogatories and depositions). Artsana USA, Inc., 2025 WL 50373 (S.D.

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E-Discovery LLC

JANUARY 27, 2025

A dispute arose over the application of the ESI Order and: Meta wants to clarify that the requesting partys opportunity to object to the sufficiency of the producing partys original and new search terms is triggered only if the producing party identified responsive documents in the null set sample. In a prior decision, Cook v.

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SW&L Attorneys Blog

MARCH 15, 2025

Discovery is a critical component of the legal process, enabling parties to obtain necessary evidence and documents relevant to a case. Response Obligations And Motions To Compel Upon submitting a formal request for discovery, the opposing party is obliged to respond within 30 days, this timeline may be adjusted upon reasonable notice.

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E-Discovery LLC

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Plaintiffs later noted the deposition of a non-party, Dr. Fanning on March 29, 2024. Objections were due by July 10 th. Fanning and well before the deposition. Plaintiffs contended that SCA did nothingsuch as objecting or filing a motion to quashsince it received notice of the Subpoena. Pursuant to Fed.

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E-Discovery LLC

JANUARY 8, 2025

Reliance on Rule 33(d) is appropriate when the interrogatory requests objective facts that are obvious from the specified documents, but is generally inappropriate when the interrogatory asks a party to state its contentions or to state facts supporting its allegations. at *2 (cleaned up; citations omitted).

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Offering a legal service is, of course, quite different from developing a new disinfectant, or building a software application or a material object. One column might be dedicated to deadlines, another to discovery tasks, another to trial preparation. A client intake staff member can create a new board for each potential client.

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E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 21, 2024

See Felder Part 2 of 4: Defendant Sanctioned for Late Cancellation of Depositions. Plaintiff sought discovery of video footage “of an interaction” with her former manager and security personnel who had allegedly forcibly removed her from defendant’s premises. 4, 2023); Discovery About Discovery – When Was Duty to Preserve Triggered?

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E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 31, 2024

These videos were admitted into evidence without objection and were contained in about 30 video exhibits. Over objection, Lieutenant McDonald testified that he focused on one of the suspects who wore distinctive attire. The court admitted the composite video over objection. before the shooting; on Pleasant Street at 12:17 a.m.

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E-Discovery LLC

OCTOBER 6, 2024

It noted that Mr. Shapiro even testified during depositions that he could not identify a single email that anyone read. The technology consultant was not identified as an expert for either side, but, without objection from Mr. Shapiro, HHI offered the consultant’s affidavits in support of its motion for summary judgment.

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Percipient

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

When lawyers prepare for litigation, depositions, mediations, or even internal investigations, they conduct a document review to find all the documents related to the project. Review Guidelines The review guidelines section details the actual scope of the project and clearly states the objectives while including coding instructions.

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MyCase

JUNE 5, 2024

CLM tools are designed to make traditionally static contracts more accessible and valuable, enabling the use of datasets to inform decision-making and support key business objectives. Who uses them: In-house counsel; sometimes larger law firms. Who uses them: Litigators and appellate lawyers.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The flagship product automates drafting responses to lawsuits, discovery requests, demand letters, and more by leveraging a firm’s historical data. For the YouTube Viewers, Block demonstrates LegalMation’s Response Creator tool for automating drafting of responses to complaints and discovery requests. So I said, Well, when is this due?

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A lot of what you see at legal week is you see the shiny objects. And so they like the message that we’re not trying to sell them a shiny object, something new to bring in to be that sort of silver bullet. And many times that’s in the discovery space. So that we can actually perhaps bring a little different message.

Education 52

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E-Discovery LLC

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Discovery had been conducted for almost a year and the deadlines extended three times. Doe complained of alleged piecemeal document production and, after deposition, “grew concerned” that relevant documents had not been produced. 5, 2024); Discovery About Discovery – When Was Duty to Preserve Triggered?

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Burden Of Proof Evidence Discovery Litigation 130

E-Discovery LLC

JANUARY 29, 2025

21, 2025), the court wrote that: Neither side distinguishes between waiver of untimely objections to interrogatories and waiver of untimely objections to RFPs, even though important differences exist in both the applicable rules of civil procedure and the case law construing them. It held that plaintiffs waived the objections.

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