The California Supreme Court recently issued an important ruling on the use of civil discovery depositions in lieu of trial testimony. The court’s opinion in Berroteran v. Los Angeles County Superior ...

Civil litigators accustomed to treating depositions as the most expensive option in pretrial discovery may want to reconsider. In some situations, a deposition can prove less burdensome than ...

Join this seminar for the latest trends in discovery in international litigation and depositions, plus hear from lawyers with experience across a multitude of jurisdictions about how they overcome ...

Done right, video depositions can be powerful evidence, locking in key admissions or juicy details. Videotaped depositions are much more than just perfunctory stepping stones on your path through the ...

In Pioneer Kabushiki Kaisha v Hitachi High Technologies America Inc, the USPTO's TTAB has reaffirmed that it has the power, in appropriate cases, to limit or bar a deposition if it determines that the ...

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The scope and importance of discovery during US patent trials cannot be underestimated. Jack Griem explains how the process works, and highlights the best way to get the most of the system The ...