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Articles Tagged with depositions

August 16, 2010

Judge Calls Down Lawyers For Deposition Misconduct

All lawyers know that judges don’t like discovery disputes, and some lawyers take advantage of that by violating the rules at depositions.

United States Magistrate Peggy A. Leen entered this Order when confronted with lawyers who ignored the rules. An excerpt:

The exchanges related in excruciating, repetitive detail in the moving and responsive papers and their attachments were painful to read. If I was an elementary school teacher instead of a judge I would require both counsel to write the following clearly established legal rules on a blackboard 500 times:

August 28, 2009

New Tennessee Legislation of Interest to Tort Lawyers – Post 16

by The Law Offices of John Day, P.C.

Post 16 of this series addresses a change in the law applicable to taking of depositions. The bill summary set forth below describes the original bill as amended. The new law

prohibit[s] the taking of a deposition before a person who is:

(1) A party to the action or an attorney for one of the parties;
(2) A relative, including a spouse, of one of the parties or of an attorney for one of the parties;
(3) An employee of one of the parties or of an attorney for one of the parties;
(4) Someone who has, or has had during the past two years, a sexual relationship with one of the parties or with an attorney for one of the parties; or
(5) Someone with a financial interest in the action or its outcome.