Posts by Esquire Deposition Solutions
A 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…
Read MoreTen Strategies for Deposition Success
Who doesn’t love a list article? Who can fail to appreciate a lifetime’s wisdom, curated and arranged on the page in (usually) 10 bite-sized, bullet-pointed nuggets? Who couldn’t use a breezy reminder on matters that must be minded? No one, that’s who. And while you might want help re-entering the working world after a long…
Read MoreWhen AI Compromises Expert Witness Territory
Expert’s use of artificial intelligence is continuing to create headaches for litigators. Recently a federal court in Connecticut concluded that an expert witness’s prompts into an AI tool were discoverable, a ruling that seems likely to be widely embraced. And then there was the case of the artificial intelligence expert whose report was contaminated by…
Read MoreAI Prompts Are Discoverable as Expert’s Methodology
Environmental litigation in Connecticut has revealed yet another AI-related banana peel for lawyers to slip on. Namely, the discoverability of prompts provided to artificial intelligence software by the opposing party’s expert witness. Earlier this summer, a federal district court in Connecticut ruled that an expert witness’s AI prompts were within the scope of discovery under…
Read MoreIndiana Court Rule Raises Stakes for AI Missteps
Effective August 1, a recently revised Indiana court rule gives that state‘s trial judges the authority to impose tough sanctions on litigants who submit any pleadings “citing fictitious legal authority.” The new rule will require attorneys to draft court filings with the greatest care, or risk crippling sanctions. The Indiana court rule, Cause No. 26S-MS-8,…
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