Esquire Deposition Solutions If the word “Shaq” conjures up the image of professional basketball legend and amiable IcyHot liniment pitchman Shaquille O’Neal, you could be missing out on a valuable mnemonic device for preparing witnesses for deposition: Short Honest Answers to Appropriate Questions, or SHAQ. In a deposition, a short answer gives the other side as little… Continue reading Quick Tips for Ethical, Effective Deposition Witness Prep
Month: August 2024
Eight Ethical Pitfalls to Avoid at Your Next Deposition
Esquire Deposition Solutions The line dividing zealous advocacy and professional misconduct can be hard to spot, and it can appear with little advance notice during a heated moment in litigation. This is particularly true in pretrial depositions, which take place without judicial supervision and where the lawyers are left to call their own balls and… Continue reading Eight Ethical Pitfalls to Avoid at Your Next Deposition
Can Insurers Dictate How the Insured’s Deposition Will be Conducted?
Esquire Deposition Solutions Insurers and large corporate legal departments are sophisticated consumers of legal services, but they face a constant struggle to contain the ever-rising cost of litigation against a background of budget tightening by senior executives. One strategy is to keep more legal work in-house. Other approaches include increasing the use of alternative legal… Continue reading Can Insurers Dictate How the Insured’s Deposition Will be Conducted?
What Every Project Participant Needs to Know About Delay Claims
Andrew G. Vicknair | The Dispute Resolver A “delay” on a construction project is defined as the stretching out of the time for completion of certain key milestone scopes of work which can impact the completion date of an entire project, due to some circumstances or events that were not reasonably anticipated when the project… Continue reading What Every Project Participant Needs to Know About Delay Claims
Untimely Notice Does Not Remove Insurer From Its Duty To Indemnify
Machaella M. Reisman | Phelps Dunbar In a recent decision, the South Carolina Supreme Court refused to expand the “notice-prejudice rule” but still found that an insurer could not deny coverage based upon the insured’s failure to provide timely notice of an underlying lawsuit because the insured did not materially breach the insurance policy. Covil… Continue reading Untimely Notice Does Not Remove Insurer From Its Duty To Indemnify