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

Attorney at Work

Exchanging exhibits during a remote deposition or trial is a crucial component that is often not addressed in web-conferencing tools. Additional accommodations must be in place for a way to introduced and distribute exhibits. These can often be addressed by an exhibit-specific tool used in conjunction with the web-conferencing tool.

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The “Silent Witness” Theory of Authentication of Video Evidence

E-Discovery LLC

The Supreme Court of Maryland is considering a challenge to authentication of video evidence using the “pictorial testimony theory.” On appeal, defendants unsuccessfully challenged the authentication of the video evidence. at *9 (“His method of obtaining the evidence was also similar to the other videos….”).

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Authentication Article by Paul Mark Sandler

E-Discovery LLC

22, 2024), my friend Paul Sandler wrote: “It can be said that direct and cross-examination are the central features of the trial, and essential to examinations are the exhibits sought to be introduced in evidence.” In Authentication is key to direct and cross-examination (thedailyrecord.com) (Aug.

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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

499 (2024), addressed introduction of a “composite” video as summary evidence and the use of police officers’ testimony describing it. Maps of the neighborhoods were admitted into evidence, showing the locations of the cameras by number and direction each camera was facing. State , 261 Md. at 509-510.

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Creating an Appellate Record of Audio, Audiovisual, or Video Evidence

E-Discovery LLC

The proposed Committee Note to Rule 8-413 (contents of the record on appeal) states: “Exhibits that are audio, audiovisual, or video recordings may be stored and accessed using a digital storage platform approved by the State Court Administrator.

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Lawyers, Implicit Bias and Burnout: 5 Steps to Self-Discovery

Attorney at Work

If you are exhibiting the symptoms of stress, you may have implicit biases that are conflicting with your conscious desires. In other words, you see what you look for — and we are always looking for evidence that our beliefs are correct. So if you believe you are not good enough, you will focus on evidence that you don’t measure up.

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Trial Exhibits: Numbered or Alphabetical? Does It Really Make a Difference?

Gerry Oginski's New York Legal Blog

You might think "Who cares about trial exhibits and what you call them?" In every trial, we need to use exhibits. We have medical records we need to get into evidence. Every case involves exhibits. That's why it's vitally important for every exhibit that we use at trial to be identified. "Your