Deposition Objections Report and Checklist

Before you go to a deposition, use this report as a checklist and memory refresher on the objections you and the other side properly can make to testimony at a deposition. Put this checklist in your deposition / trial notebook!

There are a limited number of valid objections an attorney can make at a deposition. This is a checklist of valid and invalid objections that you can make to the questions by the adverse attorneys to the witness. Or that they can make to your questions.

This is also a concise summary of the law you need to know to respond to the objections from your adversary, such as “How to respond to an adverse attorney who directs a deponent not to answer.”

Product Liability

Deposition Question Outline Checklist – Products Liability – Plaintiff or Fact Witness

A comprehensive 16 page checklist for questioning the plaintiff or a fact witness in a product defect case of personal injury or property damage. For plaintiff or defense counsel at deposition or at trial, or for witness preparation.

For the plaintiff's attorney, the form shows the areas and questions for which the plaintiff must be prepared.

For the defense lawyer, the checklist is a comprehensive 16 page list of items to consider asking the plaintiff.

Liquor Liability Deposition Questions Suite

Liquor liability cases and liquor liability laws involve special topics. Outlining your expected depositions of the intoxicated person and those furnishing the alcoholic beverage involves special groups of questions! Our deposition outline questions, checklists and legal forms, regarding dram shop … Continued

First Letter to the Insured Defendant

Assigned by an insurer to defend their insured in bodily injury litigation? Here are the two first letters to send out — just minutes after you are retained.

Immediately start or renew good relations with the insurer. Save time telling insureds what they want to know and what you want them to do.

First Letter to Bodily Injury Plaintiff Client

First Letter to Bodily Injury Plaintiff Client

A legal form client information letter to use every time you start a plaintiff bodily injury (BI) case.

An easy and proven method of informing your client of a dozen items. First Letter to Client BI Plaintiff will make clients admire your efficiency, realize you are experienced in BI cases, and educate them, all to your advantage.

First Letter to Client BI Plaintiff starts out with a management suggestion to you of a standard operating procedure of four items you can delegate to a secretary or legal assistant that will produce a case flow of information to the client during the litigation. Then this product follows with the legal form letter you will use with every personal injury plaintiff client you have.

Deposition Checklist: Assets Examination Questions

The deposition checklist of questions you need. Assets examination is no longer just for divorce, bankruptcy, and collection attorneys! Business lawyers and tort lawyers ask asset questions in depositions of an adversary before trial in several sorts of cases, including those where a worried defendant may be transferring assets.

Litigation Hold Letter to Client

Don't make legal mistakes when you tell your client what needs to be done with electronically stored information (ESI)

Use a solid, reliable, form Litigation Hold Letter.

Court decisions are now requiring you to give written “litigation hold” instructions. Use this form to tell both you and your clients, quickly and efficiently, what needs to be done immediately to prevent destruction of ESI.

Litigation Hold Letter to Adverse Attorney

Litigation hold: telling the adverse attorney to preserve electronic evidence? You need a solid form letter to use as your checklist in what to say

Start with a solid legal form letter to draft your effective and complete “litigation hold' letter demand to preserve electronic data, including the metadata. The start of the litigation only occurs once. Say what you mean, Now!

Meet and Confer Report

Use the best checklist form to guide you

If the words “conference with adverse attorney regarding ESI” fill you with dread or loathing, you need the 18 pages of this article and form, both to learn what you need to know, and also to be your agenda at that conference.

You will save yourself time, plus present yourself as having knowledge and mastery of your case.

Electronic Discovery Meet and Confer Report gives you an eight page concise discussion of law and tactics regarding ESI, a court requirement for an ESI conference, and what you should do in that conference; and a ten page checklist.