Posts by Esquire Deposition Solutions

For many lawyers, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic were a forced apprenticeship with virtual communications technologies, perhaps none more important than the easy-to-use, low-cost Zoom videoconferencing platform. Zoom calls, Zoom hearings, and Zoom depositions proliferated as a matter of necessity and, in nearly every jurisdiction, as a matter of judicial fiat.

Whether it’s an employment discrimination case or a personal injury matter, a patent dispute, or a cross-border antitrust proceeding, the probability that an attorney will encounter parties and witnesses with limited English proficiency rises every day. Not only is the United States becoming more diverse, its courtrooms are also often the forum of choice for…

Cybersecurity liability insurance policies are finding increased favor among law firms. We dive into the data behind this growi

Every litigator should be able to give a positive answer to the following question: “Did I do everything reasonably possible to protect my clients against the loss of information they entrusted to me?” Although most attorneys would find the question well-timed and entirely legitimate, the unfortunate reality is that many law firms are not taking…

Yogi Berra, a data science pioneer and Hall of Fame manager for the New York Yankees, once declared, “You can observe a lot just by watching.” How true. It’s in that same spirit we take a look at our 2020 output to see what, if anything, can be asserted about the state of the legal…

Jury trials are among the last pieces of the judicial system to undergo a virtual transformation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although some aspects of jury trials will never be replicated online — for example, the bonding process that jurors experience after spending days or weeks together — courts across the country have…