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Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Sidestepping Conflicts and Other Ethical Pitfalls in Employee Depositions

This blog post is the fourth in a series on common ethical challenges that arise when preparing for and conducting depositions. Quite often corporate employers want outside counsel to represent both the corporation and...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Can Insurers Dictate How the Insured’s Deposition Will be Conducted?

This blog post is the third in a series on common ethical challenges that arise while preparing for and conducting depositions. Insurers and large corporate legal departments are sophisticated consumers of legal services, but...more

Butler Snow LLP

Subpoenaed Remote Testimony from Anywhere and Everywhere? Ninth Circuit Says No.

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With the COVID pandemic, remote video depositions and trial testimony very quickly went from rare to routine. Remote testimony, for the most part, is viewed as a convenience to both witnesses and attorneys, and parties and...more

Lathrop GPM

Kansas Federal Court Quashes Deposition of Franchisee’s General Counsel

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A federal court in Kansas recently granted Defendant Sandvik Mining and Construction’s motion to quash a deposition subpoena of its in-house counsel. Roadbuilders Machinery and Supply Co., Inc. v. Sandvik Mining and...more

Association of Certified E-Discovery...

[Virtual Seminar] ACEDS Wisconsin Chapter and Paralegal Association of Wisconsin: 2022 Annual Seminar - May 6th, 8:15 am - 4:30 pm...

Please join us, beginning May 1, for a week of engaging discussion culminating in the all-day seminar on May 6!...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

2021 PTAB Year in Review: Analysis & Trends

[co-author: Jamie Dohopolski] Love it or hate it, ignore the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) at your peril. The introduction of the PTAB as part of the America Invents Act over ten years ago has forever changed...more

The Volkov Law Group

Judge Lamberth Sanctions Paul Weiss and Former Partner Alex Oh

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Lawyers can “Break Bad” and veer from ethical and professional standards.  Somehow this is not so hard to envision.  Legal misconduct occurs more than most expect.  And the system reacts in variety of ways – professional...more

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[Webinar] Now Available At No Cost: Secure, Virtual Trial and Deposition Prep with Storybuilder by Everlaw - January 26th, 1:00 pm...

Post-review litigation preparation traditionally occurs over email, with competing versions of outlines sent back and forth until no one is sure what’s the most up to date. Digitally preparing for trial often involves a...more

Baker Donelson

Sitting with the C-Suite: Trial Prep as a Launchpad for Services

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Rakesh Madhava, the chief executive officer of Nextpoint, has extensive litigation experience, first as a litigation paralegal at, among other law firms, Kirkland & Ellis, and then as a litigation data consultant at FTI...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] 2020 Seattle Regional Conference - June 5th, 8:30 am - 4:15 pm PDT

Our Virtual Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences provide updates on the latest news in regulatory requirement, compliance enforcement, and strategies to develop effective compliance programs. Watch, listen, and ask...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

More Courts Attempt to Move Civil Cases Forward Despite the COVID-19 Pandemic

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We continue to track the impact of COVID-19 on court operations and parties in civil litigation across the country.  (You can read our most recent update here.)  Many courts seem to have shifted from the earlier pauses and...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Litigation Management Checklist in the Time of COVID-19

We are all experiencing unprecedented challenges right now, both personally and professionally. To ease some of your legal team’s anxieties, we have put together a litigation-specific checklist with the measures we recommend...more

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Bankruptcy Courts: Open for Business

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During challenging economic times, Bankruptcy Courts serve an essential governmental and financial function. The COVID-19 outbreak has forced closures of businesses and governmental entities throughout the country, resulting...more

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[Webinar] How to Collaboratively Craft Narratives and Prepare for Depositions - March 24th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

Post-review litigation preparation traditionally occurs over email, with competing versions of outlines sent back and forth until no one is sure what’s the most up to date. Manual drudgery abounds, whether it’s printing out...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Court Allows Plaintiff to Call Defendant’s In-House Attorney Responsible for Supervising Trial to Testify About Advice of Counsel...

In Sound View Innovations, LLC v. Hulu, LLC, a district court denied Hulu’s motion to quash a subpoena directed to its trial-supervising in-house attorney. The court agreed that Sound View may question Hulu’s attorney live,...more

Butler Snow LLP

A New Look At The Doctor Deposition

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In the context of the practice of medicine, we are all very familiar with the Latin phrase primum est non nocere. It means “first, do no harm” and is the ethical guiding principle in the medical profession. Inherent in this...more

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District Court Upholds OSHA’s Refusal To Permit Compliance Officer’s Testimony In Personal Injury Case

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Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA may refuse to allow its compliance officers to testify in civil tort proceedings....more

Brooks Pierce

Protecting In-House Counsel From Having To Be Deposed

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There a probably few things in legal practice as annoying as getting a Notice of Deposition for your client's in-house counsel. Are you willing to pursue a Motion for a Protective Order to prevent the deposition? ...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

New Amendments to SEC's Rules of Practice in Administrative Proceedings

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On July 13, 2016, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted several amendments to its Rules of Practice regarding administrative proceedings. The amendments address, among other things, the timing of...more

Fisher Phillips

You Don't Have The Right to Remain Silent: The Middle District of Pennsylvania Reaffirms that Attorney-Client Communications...

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In Hall v. Clifton Precision, 150 F.R.D. 525 (E.D. Pa. 1993), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued its opinion regarding attorney-client communications during depositions which has...more

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Still Cookin’ In California Court: Bakery Employer Survives EEOC Motion For Summary Judgment

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In what has become an oft-used recipe in the EEOC cookbook of Title VII retaliation litigation, the government has once again utilized the strategy of taking an employer’s deposition and thereafter moving for summary...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

Not So Fast! Qualcomm Cannot Use “Curious Quirk” of U.S. Discovery Law In Korean Antitrust Proceeding

A recent federal court order highlights the scope, and the limitations, of a U.S. court’s authority to order domestic discovery for use in a foreign proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 1782. The court in In re Ex Parte Application...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

When Must Executives Testify in Corporate Litigation? Wisconsin Judge Provides Insight

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When can top executives in large corporations and other organizations avoid testifying in litigation involving the organization? Under a recent ruling by Federal Judge William Conley of Madison, the answer turns, in part, on...more

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

Changes to the California Code of Civil Procedure You Should Know About NOW

The California legislature has recently implemented important changes to the California Code of Civil Procedure (“CCP”) that will take effect on January 1, 2016. These changes will affect all aspects of the litigation...more

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Court Rejects The EEOC’s Request For A Free Pass From Discovery In Pattern Or Practice Lawsuit

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In an order recently issued in EEOC v J.R. Baker Farms, LLC, et al., Case No. 7:14-CV-136 (M.D. Ga. Sept. 9, 2015), Senior Judge Hugh Lawson of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia compelled the EEOC to...more

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