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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…

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…

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…

At first glance, the number of ways that a litigator might be subjected to sanctions for misbehavior during a pretrial deposition seems limitless. And that may be true. Human beings are good at finding new ways to commit errors. However, broadly speaking, the reasons why deposition conduct is sanctionable are actually few in number. In…

Federal criminal rules experts may soon begin studying something the federal criminal system has resisted for more than 80 years: allow parties to take pretrial depositions in criminal cases. A proposal to do just that landed in front of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts’s criminal rules advisory committee last year, and now there…

What part of litigation matches the creativity of soccer legend Pelé with a soccer ball? Is it as reliable as Brazil in World Cup competition? Or as outcome-determinative as Lionel Messi’s left foot? Give up? Pretrial discovery, of course! So, it’s for good reason that federal courts rarely decide courtroom contests without giving both teams…