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Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Skip Your Deposition and Pay the Price?

We’ve written previously about sanctions that trial courts can impose on parties that, for no good reason, fail to appear for a properly noticed deposition. Courts are understandably impatient with parties that throw sand in...more

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2023 eDiscovery Case Law Review

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January is a time to set goals and ponder what the new year will bring. It is also a time to think about what happened last year. In the world of litigation, it is important for lawyers and eDiscovery professionals to take...more

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Business Court Imposes Sanctions on Attorney-Litigant for Falsifying Evidence

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Think back-dating that email will help your case? Think again. Ford v. Jurgens, 2022 NCBC Order 9 (N.C. Super. Ct. Feb. 16, 2022) involved a dispute between a nonprofit real estate investment association (“the...more

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Recovering Attorney’s Fees in Texas: Five Lessons

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Obtaining an award of attorneys’ fees might be the final step in a long-waged litigation battle but to do so successfully requires careful planning and diligence from the outset of a case. The Texas Supreme Court recently...more

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Exterro and Duke/EDRM Judges Survey 2019 Series: Part 2, Taking Affirmative Action to Address E-Discovery Problems

This is the second in a series of posts evaluating the results of Exterro and Duke/EDRM’s 2019 survey of Federal district court and magistrate judges. With information from over 250 judges, the survey data offers a rich trove...more

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Sean O’Shea: Tips for Paralegals and Litigation Support Professionals – January 2019

ACEDS is thrilled to introduce our latest blogger, Sean O’Shea. Sean posts a litigation support related tip each night at http://www.litigationsupporttipofthenight.com/. Sean’s posts take a deep dive into the technical tools...more

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We've Been Charged with Sanctions – Now What?

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No one likes to see the words “Motion for Sanctions”. Judges don’t like them; most lawyers don’t like to make them; and 100% of lawyers don’t want to be on the receiving end of them. And I’m not talking about discovery...more

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Court Held That Statutory Probate Court Had Subject Matter Jurisdiction Over Trust Dispute

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In Barcroft v. Walton, a statutory probate court entered sanctions, struck a defendant’s pleadings, and entered a default judgment against a defendant in a trust case. No. 02-16-00110-CV, 2017 Tex. App. LEXIS 8541 (Tex....more

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English Court of Appeal Signals Less Draconian Sanctions for Non-compliant Litigants

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Litigants must comply with rules and orders, yet must not seek to penalise opponents for immaterial breaches Overview - The Court of Appeal has allowed three consolidated appeals an earlier Court of Appeal case...more

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