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Sanctioning Deposition No-Shows in 2025

The blog post Turning Deposition No-Shows to the Client’s Advantage proved popular with our readers when written (2021!) and for years afterward. The sustained readership of that article is gratifying but also disappointing...more

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When Mere Objections Are Not Enough

It’s a common practice during a deposition for lawyers to assert legal objections to witness testimony but then allow the deposition to proceed. In fact, this practice is broadly encouraged. Depositions are wide-ranging...more

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[Event] Drug & Medical Device Litigation - December 5th - 6th, New York, NY

Hosted by American Conference Institute, the 28th Annual Conference on Drug & Medical Device Litigation returns for another exciting year with curated programming and networking opportunities with 400+ industry...more

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Preservation of Evidence: Methods and Best Practices You Should Adopt in 2023

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In our adversarial justice system, litigants rely on evidence to explain their side of a dispute. Today, much of that evidence is digital. If an organization allows digital evidence to be compromised, lost, or destroyed, it...more

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What To Do When You’re Required To “Categorize” Your Electronically-Stored Information

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The familiar rigors of complying with requests for eDiscovery—searching for, reviewing, processing, and producing electronically stored information (“ESI”)—can be challenging enough. As of January 1, 2020, however, California...more

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What is a legal hold?

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While most legal professionals are familiar with legal holds, that doesn’t mean they look forward to receiving one. While properly executing a legal hold doesn’t have to be complicated, compliance requires careful planning...more

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Lawyers and Cooperation: The Ongoing Hurdle

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How can two adversaries learn to cooperate? That has been the burning question amongst litigators over the past seven years. On Dec. 1, 2015, significant amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) became...more

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4 Tips on how to address issues surrounding ESI

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Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, parties are obligated to share a description of their documents, including electronically stored information (ESI), and any tangible things that might support their case or defense...more

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Why Legal Hold Technology Is More Than “Just Sending a Few Emails”

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When it comes to a pending litigation, the duty to preserve electronic data is clearly laid out in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP)... But when it comes to the actual process of letting custodians know they need...more

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Overcoming eDiscovery Trepidation - Part I: The Challenge

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In this two-part series, I interview Gordon J. Calhoun, Esq. of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP about his thoughts on the state of ediscovery within law firms today, including lessons learned and best practices to help...more

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Legal Tech Innovation: Learning to Thrive in an Evolving Legal Landscape

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The March sessions of Legalweek took place recently, and as with the February sessions, the virtual event struck a chord that reverberated deep from within the heart of a (hopefully) receding pandemic. However, the...more

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[Webinar] The Evolving Court Requirements for E-Discovery Defensibility in Today’s Big Data Age - July 29th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

With an updated set of FRCP e-discovery rules, an emergence of new data sources to worry about and an urgency from the court to focus on cooperation in e-discovery activities between opposing sides, the meaning of e-discovery...more

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What Is a 'Reasonably Useful Form' for Production of ESI?

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In our digital world, one might think that the production format of electronically stored information, or ESI, in civil litigation is no longer controversial, but recent court decisions make it clear that is not the case. ...more

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In eDiscovery, a Sense of Humor Helps

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Ipro’s Top 10 Legal Technology Memes for 2019 - A sense of humor isn’t required to work in eDiscovery. But it sure does help! To wrap up 2019 and continue celebrating our industry, Ipro has compiled our top Legal...more

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New Best Practices Under E-Discovery Spoliation Rule

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As the volume of electronically stored information, or ESI, subject to discovery has exploded, allegations of spoliation have multiplied. Before the 2015 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, courts relied on...more

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Common Mistakes in 30(b)(6) Witness Preparation

Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 30(b)(6), a party may depose a public or private corporation, a partnership, an association, a governmental agency, or another entity. Of course, it is not actually possible to...more

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