WA Bar News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

They will require a material change in the way many attorneys practice discovery. EXPERT WITNESS DISCLOSURE It was the Work Group’s impression that many litigants tactically withhold discovery of testifying expert witnesses on the ground that no disclosure is required until a case schedule deadline. e) Supplementation of Responses.

Depositions

E-Discovery LLC

JUNE 20, 2024

Life is Short It is also a red flag when the court notes: “Since February of 2023, there have only been rare and brief occasions when the parties did not have some discovery dispute before the court.” There is nothing wrong with a little humor to provide a break in the monotony of this long and tedious discovery war.” June 17, 2024).

Discovery

E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 23, 2024

22, 2024), my friend Paul Sandler wrote: “It can be said that direct and cross-examination are the central features of the trial, and essential to examinations are the exhibits sought to be introduced in evidence.” 26(f) conference and “ESI Protocol” or discovery plan. See “ESI Protocol” v.

Cross-Examination

E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 27, 2024

21, 2024), the court wrote: “Before the Court are a litany of motions to seal exhibits to contemporaneously filed briefing on discovery disputes.” The Sazerac court granted a number of those motions; however, it denied the motion to seal a privilege log that had been filed as an exhibit. explain the procedure. Of the Courts v.

Exhibits

E-Discovery LLC

MARCH 31, 2025

The opinion opens with the following: Over four years into litigation, Defendants have failed to produce complete discovery responses. As an initial matter, the Court is troubled by Plaintiffs failure to provide proper exhibit citations. Township of Toms River, 2025 WL 934761 (D.N.J. 27, 2025)(citation omitted). Doebler Pa.

Exhibits

E-Discovery LLC

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Plaintiff Boblitt moved for leave to file specific exhibits under seal. The exhibits supported his opposition to a motion of defendant BP for a protective order. While it is not clear to me, it appears that the exhibits were primarily expert reports in other litigation. BP raised other issues. and 105.11. ” Id.

Exhibits

E-Discovery LLC

MAY 18, 2025

It wrote: The Court has ordered production of the redacted materials, which has been completed and, as the pending motion and exhibits thereto make clear, Mr. Adams-Devonish now has the benefit of the discovery he sought. The undersigned will then promptly schedule a recorded discovery conference.

Burden Of Proof

E-Discovery LLC

JUNE 25, 2024

There were several other discovery disputes and the parties submitted emails, exhibits, and a declaration. Defendants added: According to Defendants, while the parties conducted multiple telephone conferences thereafter regarding Plaintiffs’ complaints as to Defendants’ discovery responses, the privilege log issue was never raised….

Discovery

E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 31, 2024

These videos were admitted into evidence without objection and were contained in about 30 video exhibits. Importantly, the Court wrote that: “We do not interpret the rule to require a party to include their adversary’s version of the facts in their summary exhibit.” Second, attached as Exhibit 8 is a Digital Video Disc (“DVD”).

Admissibility

Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

OCTOBER 31, 2024

THREE PRIMARY DEFENSE CLAIMS __ __ __ PLAINTIFF PROOF OF CAUSATION __ DEFENDANT CAUSATION DEFENSE _ PRELIMINARY STATUS REVIEW  Review local rules regarding deadlines and requirements DISCOVERY REVIEW Interrogatories  Review defendant’s answers to interrogatories. Note incomplete answers for motion.

Cross-Examination

E-Discovery LLC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

One of many discovery disputes involved the scope of protective order. On the opposite side of the spectrum are umbrella protective orders, which provide for the designation of all discovery as protected without any screening by either the parties or the court…. Exxon Mobile Corp., 2024 WL 4249229 (M.D. Local Rule 105.11

Discovery

E-Discovery LLC

MARCH 27, 2025

The court added: Discovery tends to get confusing, sometimes irretrievably so, because attorneys often choose to make it that way as a strategy and refuse to take a reasonable view of what they actually need in discovery on one side and what they really should provide in discovery on the other side. HOW MANY YEARS IS ENOUGH?

Discovery

E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 13, 2024

The Court “presided over a discovery dispute hearing related to Plaintiff’s motions to compel interrogatory requests and requests for production of documents, and related to a motion for a protective order filed by the Defendant.” Sometimes Discovery Disputes Do Not Bring Out the Best in Us – Part II (Jun. 7, 2024)(Simms, J.),

Discovery

Planet Depos

DECEMBER 15, 2024

This can obviously lead to numerous discovery problems that can make or break a case. There are over 20 countries that have restrictions or prohibitions on depositions and legal discovery. There are good reasons, but the resulting discovery problems are nonetheless real. Pay for the witness travel.

Depositions

Lawmatics

DECEMBER 14, 2023

eDiscovery Platforms: Systems for efficiently searching, analyzing, and producing electronic information relevant to legal cases and discovery requests. The US exhibits remarkable growth trends and increasing tech adoption and innovation as legal professionals shift to AI-driven tools, cloud platforms, and legal software solutions.

Exhibits

E-Discovery LLC

MARCH 1, 2025

The authors suggest that some use cases are for: legal research; drafting routine administrative orders; searchimg and summarizing depositions, briefs, and exhibits; creating timelines; and for editing or proofreading. They also caution against potential AI bias. The Guidelines provide a number of other possibilities.

Exhibits

E-Discovery LLC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

The State responded that the detectives were allowed “to contextualize the sequence of clips in the summary exhibit based on their personal knowledge of the local geography and locations of various cameras.” The Appeals Court of Maryland agreed. 23, 2024). [2]

Admissibility

E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 12, 2024

The proposed Committee Note to Rule 8-413 (contents of the record on appeal) states: “Exhibits that are audio, audiovisual, or video recordings may be stored and accessed using a digital storage platform approved by the State Court Administrator.

Evidence

E-Discovery LLC

JUNE 26, 2024

citing Pouncing on Little Ambiguities Leads to Discovery Sanctions (Sept. Sometimes Discovery Disputes Do Not Bring Out the Best in Us (June 20, 2024). at *5 (emphasis added), as quoted in Sometimes Discovery Disputes Do Not Bring Out the Best in Us – Part II (Jun. 1, 2024). Smucker Co., 2013 WL 6987893, at *1 (C.D.

Discovery

MyCase

JANUARY 25, 2024

As the legal industry learns how to adopt AI technology, MyCase has partnered with Clearbrief AI to empower legal professionals to quickly draft legal briefs and conduct discovery analysis. Clearbrief is an AI-assisted legal brief writing and discovery analysis solution. What is Clearbrief?

Discovery

E-Discovery Team

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The article critiques DeepSeek's Chinese ownership amid concerns of market manipulation and emphasizes the value of emotions in AI, arguing that while AI can exhibit advantages in objectivity, it lacks essential emotional comprehension necessary for nuanced understanding and ethical decision-making.

Exhibits

The Cloud Court Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

Today, eDiscovery and managed review teams are critical to obtaining favorable outcomes, which include identifying exhibits for witness testimony. A turbo-charged litigation team can use its new testimony intelligence to make another pass through discovery to seek out advantages or detect landmines based our AI-generated insights.

Witnesses

Complex Discovery

JANUARY 4, 2025

Software Segment Growth The software segment of the eDiscovery market has exhibited a remarkable Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of approximately 11.86% from 2012 to 2029. Starting from a market spend of $1.42 billion in 2012 , this segment is projected to grow to $9.54 billion by 2029.

Government and Public Sector

E-Discovery LLC

JULY 5, 2024

During the examination [at trial], Detective Perez was shown the video footage from Exhibit 3 and he recognized the contents as those he retrieved from Michaelangelo’s Pizza’s surveillance system. While there were some differences, there was comparable testimony as to the remaining video evidence from the other sources.

Evidence

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

By uploading case documents and discovery materials, the AI can pull facts and quotes directly from the record to support legal arguments in the brief. According to Schafer, attorneys now exhibit much greater openness to tailored AI tools that enhance productivity versus disrupting their workflows entirely. But that’s a lot of work.

Evidence

Advocate's Studio

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

These were primarily advertised in the context of e-discovery, but I can see the potential behavioral analysis that expand beyond discovery and into predictive customer analytics. Anecdotally, I was told that vendor exhibits seemed smaller and more reserved than in prior years. I also was intrigued by audio analytics tools.

Discovery

Complex Discovery

JUNE 20, 2024

Brantley Starr, a US District Judge in the Northern District of Texas, highlighted these issues, stating that the platforms currently exhibit tendencies toward hallucinations and bias. He noted, “I do think there will be a point in time in which maybe my certification isn’t needed.

Legal Research

Evidence at Trial

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Our first exhibit was a table of unpaid invoices that we contended were owed to our client. If the exhibit could be admitted, we would be able to publish the table for the jury during trial, have witnesses walk the jury through the various columns and totals, and provide it to them to consider during deliberations.

Admissibility

The Cloud Court Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In litigation, they often take testimony from witnesses prior to trial as part of the evidentiary discovery process.[ii] Since it falls under the umbrella of discovery, and because few people bother to read the transcripts afterwards (if at all), maybe it’s tempting to think of them as a “warm-up.”

Depositions

Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Not only will you get a much more thorough understanding of your client, but you will also find exhibits for Deposition and trial that you otherwise would have never discovered. Look at photographs and have them tell you stories about them, look at their walls for inspiration of what they enjoy, go into their yards.

Depositions

Complex Discovery

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Analysts have identified Microsoft and Salesforce as primary beneficiaries of this trend, particularly as enterprises exhibit a growing preference for front-office applications and cloud infrastructure solutions. KeyBanc’s recent survey reveals that IT budgets are slated to grow at a rate of 3.9% year-over-year by 2025.

Technology

Complex Discovery

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As stressed by the “2024 Generative AI in Professional Services” report, although law firms typically exhibit caution regarding AI adoption due to concerns over ethics and billable hours, corporate legal departments tend to be more proactive. This proactivity is driven by the necessity to manage costs and improve efficiencies.

Legal Research

Complex Discovery

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

In domains where trust reigns supreme, exhibiting an unwavering dedication to data protection can propel companies to the forefront. A formidable cybersecurity posture, fortified by the acumen of white hat hackers, can serve as a potent competitive differentiator. So how can organizations optimally harness the potential of ethical hacking?

Healthcare

Complex Discovery

MAY 5, 2025

Christine Grahn, TikTok’s European head of public policy and government relations, asserted that these measures exhibited some of the most stringent data protections in the industry, overseen by the independent NCC Group, a European cybersecurity firm.

Exhibits

The Barrister

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

She reported the discovery to the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research (“BHI”), who had an existing agreement with the ranch owner and member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe- Maurice Williams. Tetrapodophis amplectus , a prehistoric snake-lizard, was also illegally acquired and exhibited in the Bürgermeister-Müller-Museum.

Restitution

Complex Discovery

APRIL 26, 2025

Additionally, AI ventures have exhibited exponential revenue generation, with firms like Anysphere gaining substantial traction through innovative tools such as the coding assistant Cursor, contributing significantly to their financial momentum. Companies such as Anthropic have successfully secured funding totaling $3.5

Technology

Complex Discovery

JULY 14, 2025

Released to the public on X, the chatbot has exhibited problematic behavior, including anti-Semitic outputs reportedly driven by code that prioritized engagement metrics over ethical content neutrality. Grok’s Ethical Challenges Beyond employee monitoring, xAI faces additional ethical scrutiny regarding its generative chatbot, Grok.

Government and Public Sector