Attorney at Work

MAY 23, 2022

Dean Whalen, Chief Legal Officer of Readback, a new AI-assisted deposition court reporting platform, explains how AI-assisted court reporting addresses the stenographer talent crunch — with added benefits. AI-assisted court reporting replaces the steno machine to provide quicker, more accurate transcripts of depositions — a 98.5%

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Steno

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

When Steno launched Transcript Genius , we set out to solve a fundamental challenge in litigation: how to transform dense deposition transcripts into strategic insights. Not only has this vision become reality, its impact has now been recognized.

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E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 9, 2024

24, 2024), “Plaintiff, Vernie Kent, seeks to compel Defendant, Kade Warner, to produce a surveillance video Defendant’s attorney prepared in conjunction with this litigation.” Plaintiff, however, asserted a substantial need for it. The Kent court concurred with “the majority of courts to rule on the [work product] issue….”

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WA Bar News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

1, 2024, codify procedure for depositions by remote means. This article will explain the changes effected by the rule amendments and, with respect to CR 26, provide context considered by the Civil Litigation Rules Revision Work Group in drafting the proposed amendments to illustrate their impact. This is no different.

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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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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Assessing arguments made by a co-rightsholder to Marvin Gaye’s 1973 single “Let’s Get It On,” the Second Circuit found that the district court properly limited the scope of the infringement allegations to Gaye’s sheet music deposit copy filed at the U.S.

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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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Attorney at Work

JULY 13, 2021

If you’re a budding litigator, your list may include taking a plaintiff’s deposition or cross-examining an expert witness. When opportunities arise, you can ask to take the deposition or work on the labor matter. If you’re an employment lawyer, your list could have a Department of Labor audit or defending a wage and hour claim.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 11, 2022

Litigators need to address the court and sometimes jurors. Remember your frustration when a witness did this in deposition? Eloquent speakers understand that in every setting, every minute should be informing, perhaps delighting, your audience. Every lawyer needs to speak with colleagues, clients and prospects. Every Word Is Important.

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E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 16, 2024

In the latest iteration of In Re StubHub Refund Litigation , 2024 WL 3817068 (N.D. If StubHub provides it, and Plaintiffs don’t understand it, they should serve a 30(b)(6) deposition notice. This is adversarial litigation, and there need to be clearly understood responsibilities. But that’s not true.” emphasis added].

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SW&L Attorneys Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Contributor: Lee Grossman What Is a Deposition? Civil litigation cases involve a wide variety of topics: contracts, business disputes, construction, negligence, personal injury, contested probates, family law, and more. A general rule of thumb: if the case does not involve criminal charges or juveniles, its probably civil litigation.

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E-Discovery LLC

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The court explained that: Plaintiffs, however, contend that Defendants waived any purported right to arbitration by actively litigating this action for seventeen months. Over the next several months, the Parties engaged in extensive discovery, including depositions and disputes requiring multiple conferences before the magistrate judge.

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The Cloud Court Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

“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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Steno

JANUARY 2, 2024

Depositions play a critical role in legal proceedings, allowing attorneys to gather crucial information and build their cases. However, the deposition process can be time-consuming and costly, leading attorneys to seek ways to streamline this crucial phase of litigation.

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E-Discovery LLC

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

It is alleged that the documents were then used by the mother in litigation against the sole member of OLPC. They produced documents and a privilege log, but objected to a deposition. OLPC moved to compel a deposition and for additional documents or an updated privilege log. Kuendig’s deposition.

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E-Discovery LLC

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Plaintiffs wanted more information about (1) whether Google preserved chat messages for Mr. Boyer and other witnesses; (2) whether Google timely implemented a litigation hold for custodial documents for Mr. Boyer and other witnesses; and (3) whether Mr. Boyer and other witnesses participated in Googles communicate with care trainings.

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E-Discovery LLC

OCTOBER 17, 2024

They also sought the former attorney’s deposition regarding the alleged offer. When it came to the request for a deposition , the court wrote: Lastly, Plaintiffs request a deposition of former Town Attorney Nugent in connection with his role in making the alleged quid pro quo as outlined in Plaintiffs’ motion papers.

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Optima Juris

AUGUST 15, 2023

When it comes to getting ready for a deposition in Italy, it’s always a good idea to take some steps to ensure that everything goes as smoothly as possible. Whether you’re planning to attend the deposition in person or remotely, you can do a few things to make the process easier and less stressful.

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E-Discovery LLC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

DILATORY AND UNPERSUASIVE CHALLENGE TO DEPOSITION NOTICE “The Court need not resolve the factual skirmish over whether Washington agreed to the topics in NNI’s Rule 30(b)(6) notice to resolve the motion. The State’s newly-minted objections to the deposition topics come far too late , and are not persuasive.” emphasis added).

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E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 30, 2024

Recording Meet-and-Confers | Array – JDSupra , Second , the Felder Court sanctioned the defendant for a last-minute cancelation of depositions. For example, the defendant had noted the deposition of Ms. Then, on Saturday, February 25 th , the defendant notified plaintiff that the Monday deposition was being canceled.

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The Cloud Court Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Over the years I’ve attended a lot of depositions. When the deposition is over, the people that were in the room often have a sort of inexplicable, Venn-type diagram of disparate recollections about what actually happened. But now, as my team has continued to study depositions, I've come to suspect that something else is at play here.

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E-Discovery LLC

APRIL 1, 2025

Defendant, Leadenhall Capital, moved to compel additional discovery and 777 Partners moved for additional time to complete expert depositions due to a document production issue. It also moved for a protective order to prevent certain depositions. After problems arose, litigants have been ordered to transcribe their meet and confers.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 22, 2021

Jackie Schafer: I started out as a litigator at Paul Weiss, but spent most of my career in public service as an assistant attorney general, where I was regularly briefing and arguing cases before the state appellate courts in Alaska and Washington state. That amount of help for a small firm dealing with massive litigation is so important.

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E-Discovery LLC

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In In re Outpatient Medical Center Employee Antitrust Litigation , 2024 WL 4679083 (N.D. Plaintiffs later noted the deposition of a non-party, Dr. Fanning on March 29, 2024. The court wrote that: Dr. Fanning and well before the deposition. 5, 2024), the court explained the application of Subsections (b) and (d) of Fed.R.Evid.

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E-Discovery LLC

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Fact discovery closed a day before the court’s opinion; however, it had been extended for 14 days “for the purpose of taking depositions that couldn’t be scheduled before the discovery cut-off.” Identifying document custodians is supposed to be one of the first things litigants do in discovery, not one of the last.

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Sound Jury Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

In the spirit of correcting past problems and forging new habits, here’s a list of litigation resolutions – from case intake to closing argument – to put your trial strategy either back on track or to keep it on track. Deposition practice is one of the most over-looked aspects of litigation preparation.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

As law students, few litigators imagined themselves transitioning into project management roles after passing the bar. Litigators rarely receive formal training in project management, but this does not mean they do not do project management. An Accidental Project Manager. A Powerful Project Management Panacea? DOWNLOAD THE GUIDE.

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E-Discovery LLC

MAY 31, 2024

The Fiskars court explained that: The bottom line is this: Even if the court were inclined to compel production of source code and related documents, that information would be unusable in this litigation absent a dramatic upheaval of the schedule…. The court will deny Fiskars’ motion for this reason alone.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 23, 2022

If you’re a bankruptcy lawyer, you can always tap a litigator to take that deposition or put on that witness. Attorneys with high expectations for associates are usually top performers (i.e., the ones you want to hitch your cart to). Get out of your silo. Large firms have experts in almost every conceivable skill set and practice area.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2024

ArentFox Schiff LLP is seeking a patent litigation associate with 4-6 years of experience to join our DC or San Francisco offices. Experience with trial, motions, depositions, expert reports, and discovery management is preferred. PTAB experience is preferred.

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E-Discovery LLC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Among them were: general principles of discovery; the role of counsel in self-collection; discovery on discovery; the date that the litigation hold was triggered; whether reasonable post-trigger steps were taken; curative sanctions under Fed.R.Civ.P. Some Tactical Options for Businesses Faced With Pre-Litigation Preservation Demands (Jan.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 14, 2022

Frequent filer, RFC Lenders of Texas LLC, ensnared yet another local Texas company, this time Texas Southern Tire Mart LLC, in volume patent litigation; Intellectual Ventures refiled their new automotive OEM campaign outside of the Eastern District of Texas, moving to the Northern for certain OEMs; and Jack Henry Associates, as provider to many banks (..)

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The Cloud Court Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

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. Why on earth would we do this?

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E-Discovery LLC

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Plaintiffs did not disclose the identity of the consultant or the work performed; however, it came out in Dr. Singers deposition. Tesla moved to compel the whole ball of wax identity, a deposition, all documents and communications, invoices, etc. Plaintiff did produce some documentation about the criteria Dr. Singer had developed.

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Steno

MAY 2, 2022

Pretrial discovery activities, like depositions, are weighed against the case-value benefit. Third-party litigation financing can help attorneys refocus on representing their clients without cost restraints. In recent years third-party litigation finance has become more common.

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E-Discovery LLC

APRIL 10, 2025

The potential downside of unitization by time period or number of messages is that it can artificially break up continuing conversations into separate documents, requiring the parties to manually reassociate them for use in the litigation. emphasis added]. Rodriguez v. Clarke, 400 Md. 39, 57, 926 A.2d 2] While Fed.R.Civ.P. Fed.R.Evid.

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E-Discovery LLC

MARCH 6, 2025

Passenger Sexual Assault Litigation , 2025 WL 678543 (Mar. While production issues concerning hyperlinked or modern attachments have been extensively litigated, in this blog I discuss some related evidentiary issues. Berman, Use of ESI in Depositions, Chap. In In Re: Uber Technologies, Inc. Berman, et al., Is that the same here?

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