Two recent court decisions — one from each coast — show why conventional witness preparation needs a warning label: Use at your own risk. The first one, the Qualcomm case, shows how conventional approaches to witness preparation can lead to ...

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Success in trial often depends on deposition preparation. Here are some guidelines to stay within the bounds of ethics and propriety. First, prepare yourself. Read the Rules of Civil Procedure, both state and federal, that relate to discovery, including depositions. ...

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Do you still get nervous at depositions and in court? Is there a 'right' amount of nervousness?

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Judge Ann Brobst became a model for the type of lawyer and person that I strived to be.

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Sometimes you have to do the unnatural, step outside of your comfort zone and put on the mask of someone else.

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Criminal Law, Escape: The defendants’ convictions for second-degree escape were legally valid even though the convictions were predicated on their failure to obey a court order was legally invalid. Hill, et al. v. State, No. 93, ...

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As the fourth deposition of the day started, the lawyers were all gathered around the table. Some ties had been loosened, the coffee pot was exhausted two depositions ago, and lunch was clearly never going to happen. The new lawyer, ...

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In these days of cost-consciousness, every law firm should be mindful of simple ways to save money. I don’t mean that you should stop taking depositions, just that you should be smart about the way you order your transcripts. At ...

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After an August and first half of September that included double-digit depositions, extensive travel for work, three stitches for my oldest son after a bucket full of Mr. Potato Heads hit him above the eye at day care, two days ...

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One Louisiana lawyer has discovered a novel use for YouTube. He has filed a pleading electronically (see Keith Forman’s prior posts on electronic filing in Maryland, here and here), and hyperlinked that pleading to video deposition clips stored on a ...

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