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The American Bar Association’s suggestion last year that it would be ethically problematic for lawyers to charge high fees for formerly time-intensive work made easy by generative artificial intelligence has prompted an...more
A fair reading of the facts set out in Phillips Auctioneers LLC v Grosso, 2024 NY Slip Op 33906 (N.Y. Sup. Ct., N.Y. Cty., Oct. 31, 2024), a contract dispute, suggests that both the witness and his attorney were determined to...more
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
This blog post is the second in a series on common ethical challenges that arise when preparing for and conducting depositions. What is a litigator ethically bound to do when a client lies during a deposition? This is not an...more
This blog post is the first in a series on common ethical challenges that arise when preparing for and conducting depositions. Social media offers such a wealth of details about a person’s circumstances and beliefs that...more
Incivility during contentious depositions is not a new topic for this blog. While the available evidence indicates that professionalism toward legal adversaries is on the rise, the topic of overbearing behavior during...more
By now most lawyers are familiar with the story of DoNotPay, the company that promised to provide a traffic offense defendant with a “robot lawyer” to fight the ticket in court. The plan went like this: The defendant would be...more
Deposition transcripts, like other pretrial discovery materials, do not become public records until they’re filed with the court. Before they are filed with the court, they routinely dwell in obscurity, shielded from public...more
ChatGPT and related artificial intelligence technologies are one of the most exciting developments to hit the legal profession in decades. Their ability to synthesize large datasets of legal information and deliver...more
The Ohio Board of Professional Conduct recently considered an interesting issue related to deposition practice: whether or not nonlawyers such as paralegals can ethically participate in pretrial depositions. The board decided...more
The rules governing the manner in which depositions are conducted in Florida may soon be changing. Proposed new court rules would limit the types of objections attorneys can legally make during depositions, restrict their...more
Depositions are among the least likely places to encounter unprofessional behavior by opposing counsel, according to a survey recently released by the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. In fact, videotaped...more
For many lawyers, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic were a forced apprenticeship with virtual communications technologies, perhaps none more important than the easy-to-use, low-cost Zoom videoconferencing platform. Zoom...more
The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, a cranky cultural observer who believed human beings were doomed to an existence no more fulfilling than the lives of moles, was nevertheless clear-eyed about the value of civility....more
Last week the US Chamber of Commerce, through its Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, issued a white paper proposing wide-ranging changes to the SEC’s enforcement process. Most of the 28 recommendations were...more