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

E-Discovery LLC

the Court addressed two important discovery issues. First , where the plaintiff designated her therapist as an expert witness on emotional distress damages, her disclosure of privileged attorney-client communications in otherwise privileged therapy sessions waived the privileges. Austin , 2024 WL 4056761 (D. 5, 2024)(Coulson, J.),

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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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Deposition Misconduct: Rules, Risks, and Remedies

WA Bar News

Fucile “[T]estimony of witnesses who were kicked by plaintiff’s attorney while the witnesses were responding to defendants’ attorney’s inquiry. because there is no way of knowing what the testimony would have been if the witnesses had been left alone.” — West v. should not be considered as evidence. Irwin (E.D.

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DEPOSITION OUTLINE OF A MEDICAL MALPRACTRICE DEFENSE EXPERT

Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

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. WITNESS EVER NAMED IN LAWSUIT AS DEFENDANT OR PLAINTIFF? PAST EXPERIENCE AS EXPERT WITNESS 1. A. INTRODUCTION 1.

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StubHub: “The Court is not going to do that.”

E-Discovery LLC

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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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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Shutting Down Uncivil Opposing Counsel

Attorney at Work

From time to time, opposing counsel may act in an uncivil or unprofessional manner during a telephone call, where there is no official record as there might be in a deposition or a written communication. During a Deposition. Opposing counsel may try to intimidate you during a deposition, hoping to fluster you if you are inexperienced.