Posts by Esquire Deposition Solutions
8 Ways Lawyers Are Getting Together Online This Year
There’s no doubt that most lawyers are social creatures and that, until recently, the practice of law has been a hands-on, in-person, tradition-bound business. Litigators spend a large part of their professional lives in social settings: courtrooms, conference rooms, and public meeting spaces. Opportunities for in-person communication — “networking” — are vital for business development.…
Read MoreeLitigate Platform Improves Questioning, Document Handling in Remote Depositions
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, litigators reached for any technology they could find to conduct depositions at a safe distance. In most cases, that technology was Zoom video conferencing — an inexpensive, user-friendly technology platform that could, with preparation and practice, be repurposed for remote depositions. Remote depositions — many of them…
Read MorePost-Pandemic Reforms Are Remaking the U.S. Justice System
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, the legal profession responded with a one-two punch. The first response was to fashion emergency procedures that enabled courts to function during the pandemic and, if possible, to find ways to use technology to replace in-person proceedings. Overnight virtual arraignments, virtual bench trials, and remote depositions emerged…
Read More4 Small Tech Investments That Pay Big Dividends for Remote Depositions
Professional communications today are pervasively mediated by technology. Courtrooms, conference rooms, and judges’ chambers — those familiar environments where most of a litigator’s work was traditionally accomplished — are now frequently replaced by microphones, cameras, and computer screens. As is the case with most technological progress, these changes carry both peril and opportunity. And while…
Read MoreRemote Depositions Prompt Novel Court Rulings on Discovery Practice
A prior post looked at two recent trial court rulings involving claims that witness coaching had occurred during a remote deposition, making the point that litigators can protect their clients against witness coaching by taking the time to craft a remote deposition protocol that ensures the integrity of remote depositions. As has proven to be…
Read MorePreventing Witness Coaching During a Remote Deposition
Remote depositions raise unique challenges for litigators, foremost among them the need to ensure the integrity of the deponent’s testimony. In a typical remote deposition scenario, where the attorney taking the deposition is not in the same room with the deponent, the sound of off-camera voices or the sight of repeated off-camera glances by the…
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