Judge Nixes Bid To Depose SEC Counsel In $73M Fraud Case
Law 360
JANUARY 9, 2025
A New Jersey federal magistrate judge has denied a credit reporting agency's bid to depose four U.S.
Trevor Noah To Be Deposed in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Later Next Month
LegalReader
JANUARY 7, 2022
Noah's attorneys claim the comedian and late-night host has suffered permanent, serious, and debilitating injuries from a botched New York City surgery.
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John Tolley: How to Be a Top Trial Lawyer in Your Niche
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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Proactive Litigation Paralegal Tip
Paralegal Bootcamp
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
To some attorneys, it might mean that you take some mind-reading classes and learn to read their minds. How can you anticipate the needs of your attorneys if you don’t know what deadlines coming up in your cases? Then select only the blanks to get a filtered list of witnesses who have not been deposed yet.
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Shutting Down Uncivil Opposing Counsel
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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Steno’s Transcript Genius is an AI-Powered Analysis Tool That Gives You an Edge
Sterno
JUNE 5, 2024
Every attorney knows that finding the deposition you need can be a pain. Whether it was taken months ago or you’re sure another attorney at your firm has deposed the witness before, the challenge of finding the required testimony often involves hours of footwork searching through your firm's repository.
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Whistleblower Will Be Deposed In Saint-Gobain PFOA Case
Law 360
MAY 13, 2021
A Vermont federal judge said Thursday a former Saint-Gobain in-house attorney who alleges the company did not disclose information about its use of perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, can be deposed in a class action over alleged PFOA contamination by the company.
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Judge Refuses to Lift Discovery Stay in Penn State Hazing Death Lawsuit
The Crime Report
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
As a result of the decision, attorneys for Piazza’s parents cannot depose Brendan Young and Daniel Casey and prepare for trial. Brann decided on Tuesday not to lift a stay on discovery for two defendants whose criminal charges are still pending, John Beauge reports for PennLive.
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Former Gambia Minister faces trial in Switzerland for crimes against humanity
JURIST
JANUARY 8, 2024
Jammeh, a lieutenant of the Gambian armed forces, led a coup in 1994 that deposed Dawda Jawara, the then-President of Gambia. After six years of investigation, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) filed an indictment before the FCC of Switzerland, accusing Sonko of acts encompassing torture, kidnapping, sexual violence and killings.
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Privilege Overruled In Firm's Suit Against Drinks Co. Founder
Law 360
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
A Florida state court judge Thursday ordered the founder of the company that makes Bang Energy drinks to sit for a deposition in a lawsuit over unpaid fees brought by counsel who formerly represented him in a bankruptcy case, overruling attorney-client privilege asserted in a previous attempt to depose him.
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Shielding Corporate Execs From Depositions After GM Ruling
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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After Ga. Ruling, Defense Must Aim To Limit Exec Depositions
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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Rick DeMedeiros: 5 Things You Need To Become A Top Lawyer In Your Field
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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With Court Authorization, Litigators Discover Remote Depositions
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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4 Georgia Cases To Watch This Fall
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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Georgia's Biggest Appellate Rulings Of 2021 So Far
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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Disney In-House Atty 'Stunned' By Claims Lobbed In IP Trial
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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How Does a Well-Prepared Deposition Help Win a Case?
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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Sheriff’s Office Has Been Destroying Records Of Alleged Officer Misconduct For Years
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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PTAB Finds Petitioner’s Failure to Disclose Relationship with Real Party in Interest Warrants Substantial Monetary Sanctions
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),
Why Depositions Matter More
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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Federal Circuit Untangles Trademark Dispute
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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Litigators with a Data Fetish: Moneyballing Testimony
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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Moneyballing Testimony: A Field Guide to Deposition Gorillas
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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Expert affidavit created issues of fact to withstand summary judgment in HCLA case
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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52 “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”
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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Attorneys Today Need To Depose Like There's No Tomorrow
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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Fauci, Other White House Officials To Be Deposed in Missouri Lawsuit
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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International lawyers coalition condemns erosion of protection for legal advocates in letter to UN rights expert
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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Court turns down request for relief in Arizona leadership’s voting law dispute
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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Moneyballing Litigation: Parallels between GCs and GMs
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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Trump Testifies In NY AG's $250M Fraud Suit For 2nd Time
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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Justices will consider whether details on post-9/11 CIA black sites are state secrets
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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New York Prosecutors Publicly Declare A Criminal Investigation of the Trump Organization
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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Texas and Louisiana lack right to challenge Biden immigration policy, court rules
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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Garland’s Moment of Truth: With the Perjury Referral, the Attorney General Faces a Clear Choice Between Principle and Politics
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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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts
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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Is the Clock Finally Running out on Hunter Biden?
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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Yes, Trump Can Pardon Himself But He Should Not Do So
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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“Fight in the Streets”: Democratic Leader Hakeen Jeffries Triggers Renewed Debate Over Rage Rhetoric
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
These actions were specifically to depose these political offices and send a message. Keith Ellison, the Democratic attorney general of Minnesota, even mocked the notion of liberal violence. In one tweet, he declared I have never seen @BernieSanders supporters being unusually mean or rude.
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