Trial Preparation, Discovery, Attorney-Client Privilege

Deposition Basics: What to Expect and How to Prepare

Lowndes on 7/16/2025

As a litigator, I routinely prepare clients for depositions. A deposition is a pre-trial procedure where a party or witness in a legal case provides sworn testimony outside of a courtroom. A lawyer asks questions of the...more

Five Tips for Preparing to Testify at a Deposition

Kerr Russell on 7/9/2025

Preparing for a deposition can be challenging whether it is a person’s first or hundredth time testifying under oath. Being questioned frequently causes anxiety. But the experience does not have to be so daunting with...more

Sued: What In-house Counsel Without Litigation Experience Need to Know - Preparing Your Inside Team

Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C. on 5/15/2024

3: Preparing Your Inside Team - Preservation, Privilege, Potential Pitfalls -This is the third in a series of articles that explores considerations and suggested actions for in-house counsel who are inexperienced in patent...more

Voluntary Disclosure of a Communication with Counsel: The CT Appellate Court Recognizes “Subject Matter” Waiver

Pullman & Comley, LLC on 7/5/2022

Accordingly, we hold that the voluntary disclosure of a privileged attorney-client communication constitutes a waiver of the privilege as to all other communications concerning the same subject matter when the trial court...more

Podcast - Finding the Balance

Holland & Knight LLP on 6/30/2022

In the fourth episode of his "Ethical Witness Preparation" podcast series, "Finding the Balance," litigation attorney Dan Small draws a parallel between witness preparation and translating different languages. Mr. Small also...more

The Apex Rule and Protecting Your Client’s Management Team When Conducting Deposition Discovery

Snell & Wilmer on 6/22/2022

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure liberally enable parties to seek relevant information in discovery that may be helpful in the preparation and trial of a case. While the liberal scope of discovery permitted by the...more

Privilege Newsletter: Fitting Consultants Within the Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Protection – Cyber Breach...

Jenner & Block on 4/18/2022

Cyber attacks are increasingly frequent and virulent. An intruder may lurk in a company’s computer system for years, or an attack may be sudden and catastrophic. Millions of people’s personal information and companies’...more

Protection for Investigation Materials Remains in the Eye of the Beholder

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 11/13/2017

One of the most problematic questions facing companies simultaneously undergoing a review by external counsel and responding to a government inquiry is whether the information shared with or created by counsel will be...more

Privilege Overview

Hogan Lovells on 10/4/2017

Any recorded communication (for example: e-mails, recorded phone conversations (including voicemails), letters, memoranda, computer records etc) may have to be produced to the other party in a subsequent legal dispute or...more

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