Law 360

JUNE 16, 2021

A Georgia appeals court recently allowed a plaintiff to depose General Motors' CEO, in a blow to the apex doctrine's protections for high-ranking executives, but measures before and during discovery can reduce corporate leaders' exposure in such cases, say attorneys at DLA Piper.

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Law 360

JUNE 14, 2021

Buchanan, allowing a GM executive to be deposed in a wrongful death case over an alleged vehicle defect, defense attorneys should focus on narrowing the scope of depositions involving high-ranking executives, say Carol Michel and Michael Weathington at Weinberg Wheeler.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 27, 2022

After beginning his litigation career as an assistant state’s attorney and as an insurance defense attorney, in 2019 John Tolley decided to form his own firm, JT Law. That is what, in my opinion, separates a successful attorney from any other. I depose and cross-examine several experts in engineering. JT Law Firm.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Rick is passionate about helping injured workers and has been recognized consecutive years by Super Lawyers Magazine as a top-rated attorney in his field, an honor reserved for only 5% of Georgia attorneys. Did you want to be an attorney “when you grew up”? You are a successful attorney. – Chere Estrin.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 28, 2022

Say that the attorney’s actions are inappropriate and if they persist you will seek intervention from the court with all available remedies after the deposition, including re-deposing the witness. Related Posts on Attorney at Work. The post Shutting Down Uncivil Opposing Counsel appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 13, 2021

As a well-prepared deposition summary is easy to read and understand, and all the facts are double-checked and verified by the attorney.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Attorneys are gracious, willing to learn and help one another. Here’s what attorneys—and court reporters—say about conducting depositions from their respective home offices. Attorneys who have been practicing for 40 years and have been doing it the same way realize we’ve got a new set of circumstances.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This fall, Georgia courts are contending with questions about whether the CEO of General Motors can be deposed in a civil case stemming from a car wreck and considering state duty-to-warn laws in a $200 million injury case. Here, Law360 breaks down four Georgia cases attorneys should be watching.

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Law 360

JULY 6, 2021

Georgia appeals courts have upended decades of precedent on how attorneys can appeal trial rulings, freed employers and landowners from liability in high-dollar personal injury cases and refused to narrow the window for high ranking corporate executives to be deposed, in their most significant rulings of the year to date.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A Disney in-house attorney testified Tuesday in a $400 million trial over claims Disney ripped off Rearden's special-effects software for the "Beauty and the Beast" remake that he was "absolutely stunned" when Rearden's counsel accused him during openings of "doing nothing" to stop alleged infringement, saying Rearden never even deposed him.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

Attorneys have accused Sheriff Joe Lopinto of failing to discipline deputies and a lack of transparency when it comes to releasing records that might shed light on their history of complaints and disciplinary action. JPSO attorney Danny Martiny said the agency could not comment because of pending litigation.

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The IP Law Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

In the case, Columbia filed a Motion for Sanctions seeking attorneys’ fees and costs incurred after discovery began in the matter. The sanctions may include an “order providing for compensatory expenses, including attorney fees.” Columbia Sportswear North America, Inc. IPR2017-00651 (PTAB Apr. Columbia”). 37 C.F.R. §§ 42.12(a)(1),

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The Cloud Court Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

.” – 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. Good attorneys are mindful of the fact that they will only question or defend a witness once, and they prepare accordingly.

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Patently O

MAY 2, 2024

It must either present contradictory evidence or challenge the veracity of the opposer’s evidence, such as by deposing the witness. You have channels of trade, which is the stores that are involved in presenting the goods to the public, and the different types of goods. Oral args 19:10. ” The court cited Powermatics, Inc.

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The Cloud Court Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

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. Yes, attorneys, I’m afraid you’re just as predictable as everyone else, often more so.

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The Cloud Court Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Not only as the taking and defending attorney, but also as a witness and as a client. You can find and export testimony related to a single topic, even when that testimony is siloed in disparate minds and witnesses and attorneys and cases and time. Over the years I’ve attended a lot of depositions. Maybe those topics make them nervous.

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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Defendant deposed Dr. Gunnerson as an adverse expert witness, then filed a motion for summary judgment, asserting that there was “no causal connection between any alleged negligence by [defendant] and any injury, including death, to [the patient].” The patient was finally intubated, but she died approximately six hours later.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

“Anti-abortion lawyers target those funding the procedure for potential lawsuits under new Texas law; Attorneys who helped design Texas’ novel abortion ban have asked a judge to allow them to depose the leaders of two abortion funds, seeking information about anyone who may have ‘aided or abetted’ in a prohibited procedure”: (..)

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Law 360

MARCH 8, 2022

With people leaving the workforce in droves amid the “Great Resignation” and with younger workers less inclined to stay in one place for long, attorneys need to adjust their deposition strategies to minimize risks of losing crucial witnesses who may move on from a client or opponent company before a case goes to trial, say Anthony Argiropoulos and (..)

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The lawsuit, filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, claims that the Biden administration "colluded" with social media companies to restrict Americans' free speech by limiting the spread of COVID-related misinformation.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

” Also included in the letter is US civil rights attorney Stanley Cohen’s experience of being “maligned in the media, subjected to censure by state officials and finally prosecuted” allegedly politically motivated charges. Cohen, Attorney, Stanley Cohen and Associates, USA. Glenn Kato, Attorney, Katon Law, USA.

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The Cloud Court Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

Interestingly, like baseball teams 20 years ago, many litigation teams today (and I’m including witnesses and attorneys in my definition of “teams”) are still chosen based on superficial factors. Your corporate witness is about to be deposed by a seasoned litigator on topics related to damages. Final hypothetical. The list goes on.

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Law 360

APRIL 13, 2023

Former President Donald Trump arrived in lower Manhattan on Thursday morning to be deposed by New York Attorney General Letitia James for a second time in her $250 million fraud case against Trump and his companies.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 19, 2021

The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James has publicly released a statement that it is now pursuing a criminal rather than a purely civil investigation against the Trump Organization. The investigation is being handled in conjunction with the Manhattan district attorney’s office.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In 2017, Abu Zubaydah and his lawyers asked a federal judge in Washington state for an order allowing his lawyers to depose and seek documents from two former CIA contractors, James Elmer Mitchell and John Jessen, as part of a criminal investigation in Poland, where Zubaydah says Mitchell and Jessen had supervised his interrogation.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Monday afternoon denied a request from the leaders of the Arizona legislature to put on hold an order that would require them to be deposed about the legislature’s enactment of voting laws that make it more difficult to register to vote.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 6, 2024

For Attorney General Merrick Garland, that moment of truth has finally arrived. Garland has long maintained that he is an apolitical attorney general who does not even consider the political consequences of his actions. I supported his appointment as Attorney General because I respected his integrity and intellect as a federal judge.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

But that power was changed, Alito stressed, after King James II was deposed in the revolution. Like Friday’s decision, the justices must decide whether the plaintiffs in the case – a group of states with Republican attorneys general and two individual borrowers – have standing before they can weigh in on the legality of the program itself.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Vermont Court Said Former Attorney General Could Be Deposed on Use of Private Email Account. Attorney General of Vermont , No. Jacobson demanded damages from Clack and NAS “to be determined at trial believed to be in excess of Ten Million Dollars,” plus punitive damages and attorney fees. 349-6-16WNCV (Vt. Jacobson v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 25, 2022

” T hese lingering questions could have been avoided if Attorney General Merrick Garland had responded to new disclosures with the appointment of a special counsel. Attorney, such a report is unlikely, and only limited information would be disclosed with any indictment. By leaving this case with a U.S. Conversely, if the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

These views are popular as are Tribe’s increasingly personal diatribes, including vulgar attacks on Republican leaders and even a false attack on Attorney William Barr for his Catholic faith. Indeed, for much of history, kings were deposed in a lethal, not a legal, sense. I held that position before Trump took office.

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