LawSites

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Ever since its founding in 2018, Steno has been on a mission to disrupt depositions. It started as a court reporting agency that also offered non-recourse financing of deposition costs, and then in 2020 launched Steno Connect , its own web-based video conferencing technology specifically built for remote depositions and exhibit handling.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The post Columbia Law School Professor Banned From Depositions Over Allegations Of Abusive Behavior appeared first on Above the Law. There's a lot of history between these parties.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

A Florida law firm asked a federal court Thursday to penalize a group of student debtors and their attorney over refusing to attend scheduled depositions in a debt relief case, accusing them of bad faith and calling their conduct a delay tactic.

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LawSites

MAY 25, 2021

Will remote depositions disappear as legal professionals emerge from the pandemic? Not according to a recent survey by the court reporting company Esquire Deposition Solutions , which found that 78% of attorneys plan to continue conducting up to half their depositions virtually in a post-pandemic world.

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Above The Law

MARCH 30, 2022

The post After Flipping Off Court By Ducking Deposition, Alex Jones Flips Off Sandy Hook Plaintiffs With Insulting Settlement Offer appeared first on Above the Law. When you're in a hole, keep digging.

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The Cloud Court Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

“The deposition is the new trial.” – 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. And today, almost all testimony is in the form of deposition testimony for the reasons cited above.

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Everchron

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Amidst the mountain of trial prep tasks stands the strategic process of deposition designations u2014 a process as critical as it is complex. With many depositions in the mix, this can become an overwhelming part of pretrial practice. For these, the court will need to step in and provide a ruling.

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Above The Law

MARCH 29, 2022

The post Alex Jones Calls For Fauci’s Execution, While Refusing To Sit For Deposition During Deadly Pandemic appeared first on Above the Law. CHUTZPAH, as the, um, globalists might say.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 7, 2022

Superior Court , the Supreme Court today holds a statutory hearsay-rule exception that makes admissible some “former testimony” normally doesn’t allow a deposition from an earlier lawsuit to be used against a party who was also a party in the prior action. ” Observing that “[a] discovery deposition.

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Day on Torts

JULY 13, 2022

A lawyer who surreptitiously helped his client during a remote deposition was sanctioned by the court. The court also referred to matter to the presiding judge of the district for review and possible further disciplinary action.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The Malaysian federal court declared several Kelantan state Sharia laws to be unconstitutional in a judgement on Friday. ” The court found in its ruling that the state has no power to enact Islamic laws regarding such offences as they are under federal law. The court’s judgement is yet to be published.

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LawSites

MAY 23, 2023

Financing Deposition Costs As I wrote about Steno in 2020 , Los Angeles lawyer Dylan Ruga , a former Steptoe & Johnson partner who founded his own plaintiffs’ litigation firm in 2016, first conceived of the company as a vehicle for financing deposition costs. Along the way, the company has grown to over 100 employees. .

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Six people have been charged with depositing stolen checks intended to pay court-appointed lawyers representing indigent defendants in federal cases in New York. The charges…

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 21, 2020

As a litigation paralegal, you need to be good at finding the relevant court rule quickly. Every time I went to him and asked him what to do about a particular court filing or other litigation-related issues, he would answer, “I don’t know, Ann. Back then, there was no such thing as Google or online court rules.

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Day on Torts

JUNE 7, 2022

Where plaintiff’s deposition created a “dispute of material fact” as to whether defendant had actual notice of the alleged dangerous condition in this GTLA premises liability case, summary judgment for defendant was reversed. In Vaughn v. Coffee County, Tennessee , No. M2021-00653-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 1652552 (Tenn.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Companies must take several steps to meet their duty to educate representatives for depositions in corporate and patent litigation, demonstrating to courts that good faith efforts were made to prepare — or else they may face monetary and evidentiary sanctions, say attorneys at Wolf Greenfield.

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Law 360

JUNE 21, 2021

As legal proceedings have moved online in light of the pandemic, lawyers may mistakenly believe that recorded Zoom video depositions can be entered as evidence, but without certain safeguards, the testimony is unlikely to be accepted by courts, says Phillip Zisook at Schoenberg Finkel.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 10, 2023

In an HCLA case discovery dispute, the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled that plaintiff’s testifying experts’ “notes, drafts, and communications with counsel” were discoverable under the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure and that plaintiff had waived any claim that the requested items were privileged. Further, the Court ruled that Rule 26.02(3),

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JURIST

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Pakistan’s Supreme Court heard arguments Friday on a petition to halt the country’s removal of Afghan refugees. The deportations prompted the signatories of the petition to deposit their request to the Supreme Court, urging the court to revoke the government’s decision as a breach of “the fundamental rights of approximately 4.4

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At the Lectern

MARCH 4, 2022

On Monday morning, the Supreme Court will file its opinions in Sheen v. Superior Court , the last undecided matters from the three-case December calendar. Pro tem justices are sitting on the December cases in place of Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, who left the court at the end of October.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As recently noted by a New York federal court, Rule 30(b)(6) allows for testimony from someone deposed as both corporate representative and in their individual capacity on topics outside of personal knowledge but within a corporation's collective knowledge — and dual deposition notices create unique prep issues, say Jennifer Filippazzo and Lauren Evans (..)

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Law 360

JUNE 2, 2022

Though the Georgia Supreme Court declined General Motors' request to adopt a discovery framework intended to shield top executives from being hauled into depositions, its Wednesday ruling gives an important boost to companies that want to protect their high-ranking officials.

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Mondaq

JULY 28, 2021

Houston, Texas (July 27, 2021) - In a recent mandamus opinion, the Texas Supreme Court resolved a split in opinion among the Texas Courts of Appeals as to when a corporate representative deposition of an uninsured motorist.

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Law 360

MAY 26, 2022

Johnson & Johnson urged a New Jersey state court to block a proposed video deposition of its in-house counsel in a wrongful termination lawsuit lodged by a former executive, arguing that the ex-executive didn't prove the need for such "intrusive" discovery.

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JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2024

The Nigeria Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Shell should be granted a hearing over its alleged involvement in an oil spill in the Niger Delta, as per news sources. This overturns the judgment of the Court of Appeal that halted the company’s sale and ordered payment of a judgment claim before hearing its appeal.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The Florida Supreme Court recently solidified the apex doctrine in the Sunshine State, an important development that extends the scope of the doctrine in the state to include both corporate and government officials, and formalizes the requirements for a high-level corporate official to challenge a request for a deposition, says Laura Renstrom at Holland (..)

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Mondaq

MAY 6, 2022

The Supreme Court, in the recent case of M/s Tirupati Steels v. held that the pre-deposit of 75% of the awarded amount as per Section. M/s Shubh Industrial Component & Anr.,

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A former lawyer in San Antonio has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for depositing client money into his accounts and then using it to pay other client debts and support his “extravagant lifestyle,” according to federal prosecutors and court records.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The Higher Administrative Court of Berlin-Brandenburg region on Saturday ordered automaker Tesla to cease clearing trees on some parts of the site around the company’s first electric car factory in Europe. If that happens, the state would use the security deposit to make changes such as reforestation and dismantling buildings.

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Law 360

JULY 7, 2021

stockholder attorneys lost an eleventh-hour bid Wednesday to compel the handover of recent director depositions taken for a case challenging CEO Elon Musk's compensation, sought for use in a Delaware Chancery Court trial next week targeting Musk's clout in an earlier, $2.6 billion merger approval.

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Law 360

MAY 14, 2024

was hit with sanctions after its chief executive officer failed to sit for a court-ordered deposition in sprawling multidistrict litigation taking place in New Jersey over generic drugs that U.S. Chinese drug firm Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical Co. authorities say were contaminated with carcinogens.

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LegalReader

MARCH 23, 2022

The presiding judge suggested that Jones could be arrested if he does not appear in court on Thursday.

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LegalReader

JULY 15, 2022

Jones referred to an earlier court ruling as "fraudulent" while touting his First Amendment rights to spread potentially damaging disinformation.

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JURIST

MARCH 22, 2022

The officials filed motions to quash subpoenas compelling them to testify, which Judge Judith Levy of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan dismissed on Monday. All individuals except for Baird were previously named as defendants in the case.

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Law 360

JUNE 14, 2021

In the wake of the Georgia Court of Appeals' recent ruling in General Motors v.

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LDA PRO

APRIL 7, 2023

These cases get handled in a simplified court process designed to provide a quick and cost-effective resolution. Small claims courts can help resolve these issues quickly and efficiently by providing a simplified process for filing and adjudicating claims related to car accidents. Conclusion!

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JURIST

APRIL 10, 2022

The Supreme Court of India Friday upheld a series of amendments to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act 2010 (FCRA) to strictly regulate the flow and utilisation of foreign contributions by organisations into the country. The post India Supreme Court upholds law restricting foreign donations to NGOs appeared first on JURIST - News.

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