I was browsing through Quora recently and stumbled on the following question regarding defending a deposition: “How should a defending attorney prepare for his/her deposition?” Here is a summary of my answer: When defending a deposition, there are 5 things every new attorney should be thinking about: 1. Preparation The most important thing when defending […]
When looking at the flood of innovations coming to the legal industry, its easy to get confused about how all the products and solutions fit together and how they are actually better than the “old ways.” This list is meant to sort through a subset of legal technology, namely currently available deposition technology. While some […]
Software for remote depositions can dramatically decrease costs and improve the overall efficiency of the legal industry. The most obvious impact is on saving money: Software for Remote Depositions Saves Money Travel. Attorneys who conduct remote depositions can reduce or eliminate not only their own travel, but also the travel of clients or key witnesses. […]
Giving a deposition is quite often a very pleasurable experience. Litigators get to face off against ornery ex-husbands, dimwits, people playing stupid, and maybe, if they’re lucky, even arrogant celebrities. Dealing with the difficult witness when giving a deposition is a tough task, but often unavoidable. Problems with giving a deposition if you have unwieldy documents […]
You know how important it is to nail down the opposing party’s experts at their depositions. You want to lock them in to their opinions and to identify all the supporting documents upon which they relied. To do this well, you need to spend sufficient time in preparation so you can elicit all of the […]
You almost never have the perfect case and the perfect client. They may exist in movies, but they don’t exist in real life. Instead you usually have a case with weak points. These weaknesses may be problems with the facts, an unsympathetic client, bad prior precedent, bad reputations or prior acts, or a combination of […]
Standard Deposition Questions If you’re a litigator then once you’ve been in practice for a while you will have taken depositions in lots of cases, covering lots of different issues, from many different types of witnesses. You will start to develop patterns, and you’ll learn what kind of deposition questions work best in certain situations. […]
Do-It-Yourself Paperless Depositions Before AgileLaw For years enterprising lawyers have attempted to conduct paperless depositions. Some lawyers have tried to go paperless because they are fed up with organizing the cumbersome boxes, accordion files, and binders; others want to reduce copy costs; and others were searching for a better way to show documents to a remote witness […]
Paperless depositions are a new topic in an industry struggling to reduce its paper usage. In fact, we frequently get asked by attorneys and paralegals how paperless depositions can help their practice. Some of this stems from the attitude that “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and some comes from fear of the unknown. […]
We can all benefit from a refresher course from time-to-time so we developed some simple but effective tips to help you conduct better depositions. We sat down with Professor Gretchen Sween, a Legal Writing and Research professor at the University of Texas School of Law to get some fresh insight on depositions. Professor Sween has […]
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