Posts by Esquire Deposition Solutions
When 10 Depositions Are Not Enough
When 10 Depositions Are Not Enough If your case calls for more than 10 depositions, when should you ask the court for permission? As soon as the need becomes apparent, or after you have taken the first 10? In the federal system, Rule 30(a)(2)(A)(i) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure presumptively limits each side…
Read MoreZoom Is Not a Place
Zoom Is Not a Place. The Courthouse is Just Getting Farther Away. Federal judges are still being asked to consider the legality of subpoenas demanding that deposition witnesses appear at a mythical location known as “Zoom.” Which is somewhat surprising given the plump corpus of judicial decisions declaring that Zoom, like Shangri-La and Brigadoon, is…
Read MoreCalifornia Becomes First State to Legislate Lawyers’ Use of AI
California Becomes First State to Legislate Lawyers’ Use of AI On Sept. 30, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a measure regulating lawyers’ use of artificial intelligence in their work. The first-in-the-nation legislation, SB 574, requires lawyers to: refrain from entering confidential, personal identifying, and other nonpublic information into a generative artificial intelligence system…
Read MoreWhy Remote Hearings Should Look Familiar to Deposition Veterans
Why Remote Hearings Should Look Familiar to Deposition Veterans Earlier this month, the National Center for State Courts released the latest iteration of its Remote Proceedings Toolkit, a document principally intended to help courts transition to wider use of remote proceedings. For litigators, however, the NCSC’s work offers an opportunity to continue developing the skills…
Read MoreA Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow for the Legal Profession
A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow for the Legal Profession Disney invited visitors to imagine the home of the future. Here is what the courthouse, the law firm, and the law school of the future look like. If you have visited Walt Disney World, you may remember traveling through four generations of an American family on…
Read MoreDespite Advantages, “Cameras On” Remains Minority View
When the Florida Supreme Court declined earlier this year to mandate that all participants in remote depositions appear on camera, it rejected a fair amount of expert advice urging a different conclusion: The high court’s own Rules of General Practice and Judicial Administration Committee, which proposed a “cameras on” requirement, believed the integrity of the…
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