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CONSIDER A TRIAL CHECKLIST

Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

Once one has a basic trial checklist it can be expanded and modified for specific kinds of cases. Separate checklists can also be created for different time stages pending trial by a series of trial preparation checklists. Index & make summary of relevant information for use at trial. Supplement if needed.

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Scheduling Orders Are Mandatory; Vital to Caseload Management; and, Enforced Even Where Parties Got Themselves Into a “Pickle” by Dilatory Efforts to Cooperate

E-Discovery LLC

The defendant did not answer the plaintiff’s interrogatories until mid-July…, and, after repeatedly failing to produce documents on promised dates, finally produced some documents in response to the plaintiff’s April requests in mid-August…. 30 at ¶ 7(a) (asking for a deadline several weeks from now to submit an ESI proposal).

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Amendments to CR 26 and 30 Will Change Discovery and Deposition Practice

WA Bar News

That was always the rule if CR 33 (interrogatories) and CR 34 (requests for production) were read. Despite that, the Work Group found that some parties persisted in using general objections, claiming they were permissible because no rule expressly prohibited them.