Posts by Esquire Deposition Solutions

A recent blog post here examined the circumstances under which a prevailing party in litigation can obtain reimbursement for deposition-related costs in federal courts. The rules are complicated, constrained by the statutory command that the depositions be “necessarily obtained for use in the case,” 28 U.S.C. 1920(2), and further limited by the need to actually…

Dismissal of a lawsuit is a rare sanction for a discovery violation, but it happened recently in a workplace discrimination lawsuit, due in large part to two probing depositions that called into question one party’s assertion that she had turned over all relevant text messages stored on her cell phone. The case underlines a principle…

The increasing globalization of business, through Internet-based commerce and the activities of multinational corporations, has made it more likely than ever that litigators in U.S. courts will be confronted with documents written in languages other than English. These might be business records, contracts, patent descriptions, internal e-mail communications, or – due to liberal pretrial discovery…

Jury trials are expensive. They disrupt jurors’ lives for days or weeks,. They demand the complete attention of court personnel. They require witnesses to make time for court appearances and travel to and from the courthouse. And they cause the litigators to back-burner the concerns of other clients for the trial’s duration. No wonder appellate…