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

WA Bar News

1 The amendments to CR 26 affect objections, supplementation, and disclosure of experts. They will require a material change in the way many attorneys practice discovery. The best practice is to supplement or correct responses with only the supplemental or corrected information. General objections shall not be made.

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Deposition Misconduct: Rules, Risks, and Remedies

WA Bar News

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. All objections shall be concise and must not suggest or coach answers from the deponent. Washington RPC 3.4(a)

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Litigators with a Data Fetish: Moneyballing Testimony

The Cloud Court Blog

Using tools such as AI and Machine Learning, among others, we can extract question and answer pairs, analyzing the questions asked, the answers provided, the objections made and not made, documents used and re-used and not used at all, and the types of witnesses those documents are put in front of. It works fiendishly well on offense, too.

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Stop reading depo transcripts! Please welcome Gibson.

The Cloud Court Blog

Imagine having a second chair or adviser in every deposition or examination under oath, that recalls every word and phrase – including every question, answer, objection, and type of objection – and measures objective elements of individual or multiple hearings, detects patterns or anomalies, and recalls them for you instantly.

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Legalweek 2025: Judges Signal New Competency Standards in AI-Era Discovery

Complex Discovery

Data minimization strategies can reduce discovery exposure while simultaneously advancing security objectives. Breach notification requirements intersect with litigation hold obligations in ways that require coordinated response planning.

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LegalWeek 2024 Special Part Two: Mollie Nichols and Mark Noel from Redgrave Data

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

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 it’s important that we’re a part of the conversation, and that we understand what technology is being talked about.