Litigation Fees & Costs, Electronically Stored Information, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Are Costs for Stenographic and Video Copies of the Same Deposition Taxable?

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC on 2/8/2023

Yes absolutely, but with one caveat. Counsel should not overlook the requirement to carefully document the necessity of any costs claimed to be taxable. This includes costs for videotape copies of depositions....more

Time to Update (Or Create) Your Litigation Readiness Plan

Array on 5/23/2022

Just how confident are you that your company is prepared to tackle whatever litigation comes your way? If your answer is less than “highly confident,” you’re not alone. In its 2022 Global Disputes Forecast, law firm Baker...more

New Best Practices Under E-Discovery Spoliation Rule

Troutman Pepper on 12/2/2019

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

“Who’s Gonna Pay for All This?” Can Prevailing Litigants Have Their E-discovery Charges Taxed as Costs Against Their Losing...

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 9/13/2019

Parties in today’s complex litigation world, and their counsel, need no reminder of the ubiquity of electronic discovery and the tremendous expense it occasions. Even before 2006, when “electronically stored information”...more

Discovery for a Modern Age: E-Discovery, Metadata, and Cost Savings

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 2/7/2019

Electronic discovery ("e-discovery") isn't the most popular legal topic out there. Even so, as the law becomes more technology-driven, e-discovery is quickly becoming a key tool in the sophisticated litigator's belt. This...more

New E-Discovery Guidance for Companies and Litigators

Payne & Fears on 11/9/2017

Every company that uses email or stores files electronically (i.e. every company) finding itself in litigation must comply with increasingly onerous discovery obligations. While electronic storage and transmission of data...more

Judge Finds Defense Counsel’s Reliance upon Pre-Amendment Rule 26 in a Motion to Compel the Equivalent of Bad Faith – Resulting in...

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 3/1/2017

In Fulton v. Livingston Financial LLC, 2016 WL 3976558 (W.D. Wash. July 25, 2016), U.S. District Judge James L. Robart sanctioned a defense lawyer who “inexcusabl[y]” relied on outdated case law and pre-2015 amendments to...more

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