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Proactive Litigation Paralegal Tip

Paralegal Bootcamp

Instead of waiting for the attorney to ask you to prepare for an upcoming deposition or a summary judgment filing, you could start working on those projects well in advance of being asked. The Players List also becomes your draft Trial Witness List when you start preparing for trial. ” Step 3: Report on who has not been deposed.

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Litigators with a Data Fetish: Moneyballing Testimony

The Cloud Court Blog

I am obsessed with depositions and, in particular, their importance to the outcome of cases. 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. NDAs would be worthless.

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Moneyballing Litigation: Parallels between GCs and GMs

The Cloud Court Blog

i] His point is both simple and profound: initial impressions can be deceiving, and if you want to draft players that are going to perform better than the opposition, you’re going to have to do some math. For most of its history, important draft decisions in baseball were made based on superficial factors that trumped objective data.