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Preventing Deposition Misconduct

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Given how critical depositions are to the legal process, it stands to reason that fair deposition practices are paramount to a legal team’s success. However, several forms of unethical and unfair conduct can emerge during...more

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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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How Not to Defend a Deposition

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

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Sanctions Imposed on Non-Compliant Trial Witness Statements

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Fulstow & Another v. Francis should serve as a reminder of the court’s willingness to sanction parties severely for failing to comply with the procedural rules relating to trial witness statements....more

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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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The Power of Depositions

Dismissal of a lawsuit is a rare sanction for a discovery violation, but it happened recently in a workplace discrimination lawsuit, due in large part to two probing depositions that called into question one party’s assertion...more

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Lawyer Who Admitted Coaching Deposition Witness Escapes With Reprimand

An attorney who surreptitiously fed answers to his client – roughly 50 times during a six-hour remote deposition, according to court documents – has been given a public reprimand by the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers....more

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