Esquire Deposition Solutions INTRODUCTION Whether it’s an employment discrimination case or a personal injury matter, a patent dispute, or a cross-border antitrust proceeding, the probability that an attorney will encounter parties and witnesses with limited English proficiency rises every day. Not only is the United States becoming more diverse, its courtrooms are also often the… Continue reading A First-Timer’s Guide to Deposition Interpreters
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Insurers Dispute Sharing of Defense in Construction Defect Case
Tred R. Eyerly | Insurance Law Hawaii The California Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s decision that the defending insurer was not entitled to reimbursement of defense costs from another insurer based upon a subcontract and additional insured endorsement. Zurich Am. Ins. Co. v. Old Republic Gen. Ins. Corp., 2024 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS… Continue reading Insurers Dispute Sharing of Defense in Construction Defect Case
The Small Stuff: Small Claims Court and Limited Civil Court Jurisdictional Limits
Garret Murai | California Construction Law Blog Sometimes the small stuff matters. And when it comes to legal disputes this can pose a problem for clients as well as their attorneys because litigation and arbitration, the two most frequently utilized venues to resolve legal disputes in the United States, can be and usually are expensive.… Continue reading The Small Stuff: Small Claims Court and Limited Civil Court Jurisdictional Limits
The Power of Depositions
Esquire Deposition Solutions Dismissal of a lawsuit is a rare sanction for a discovery violation, but it happened recently in a workplace discrimination lawsuit, due in large part to two probing depositions that called into question one party’s assertion that she had turned over all relevant text messages stored on her cell phone. The case underlines… Continue reading The Power of Depositions
Construction Trial Practice
Megan Carrasco | Snell & Wilmer For lawyers, serving as a juror is somewhat of a leprechaun moment. But as of January 1, 2023, in Arizona, the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure no longer permit trial counsel to exercise peremptory challenges — meaning lawyers cannot freely strike whichever jurors they believe are adverse to their… Continue reading Construction Trial Practice