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John Tolley: How to Be a Top Trial Lawyer in Your Niche

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What does it take to become a successful lawyer in your particular niche? In a series of in-depth interviews for the Estrin Report , Chere Estrin profiles top lawyers from all types of practices. This week, we feature criminal defense lawyer John Tolley , who has tried more than 45 jury trials and handled thousands of cases. .

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With Court Authorization, Litigators Discover Remote Depositions

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Litigators are obliged to maintain a deposition schedule absent the familiar setting of a conference room. Over the past few weeks, my team and I have checked in with several litigators in the Boston area whose practices are national and international in scope about how they’ve adjusted to remote depositions. Making the Transition.

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Why Depositions Matter More

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.” – Jim Garrity, 10,000 Depositions Later podcast Jim Garrity, an employment attorney based in Florida, has produced scores of podcasts and published multiple books on the topic of depositions. In litigation, they often take testimony from witnesses prior to trial as part of the evidentiary discovery process. Let’s take a step back.

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Litigators with a Data Fetish: Moneyballing Testimony

The Cloud Court Blog

That obsession extends to deposition data as well as to the psychology of the players involved: the attorneys taking and defending depositions; the witnesses being deposed; as well as the court reporters. If you’re involved in litigation, and if you care about outcomes, then the importance of testimony is difficult to overstate.

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Moneyballing Testimony: A Field Guide to Deposition Gorillas

The Cloud Court Blog

Not only as the taking and defending attorney, but also as a witness and as a client. Another example: As a GC managing litigation at public and private companies, I often didn’t have the time to attend or read transcripts of the depositions taken or defended by outside counsel. That’s why our tag line is: Litigate Like You Mean It.

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Moneyballing Litigation: Parallels between GCs and GMs

The Cloud Court Blog

Looking back over the last 20 years, I’ve concluded that managing litigation as a GC was a lot like being a GM in baseball. It resonates because I know the same is true of both witnesses and lawyers. Litigation, as we know, is also an unfair game. Appearances can be, and often are, deceiving. Sometimes profoundly so.

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Justices will consider whether details on post-9/11 CIA black sites are state secrets

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Zubaydah , the government argues that the information is protected by the “state secrets privilege,” a doctrine that allows the government to withhold information in litigation when disclosing it would compromise national security. In United States v.