Review the FRCP to understand the scope of permissible inquiry at a deposition. Under the FRCP, a deposing attorney may ask questions about any nonprivileged matter that is relevant to any party’s ...

"There is no situation in which an attorney's deep understanding of the rules of procedure will harm them or their client's position," writes Lombardi & Lombardi's Scott A. Telson. In litigation, the ...

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Director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Terence Winter have already given depositions in a defamation lawsuit brought by a former Stratton Oakmont executive. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal ...

A lawyer for a top State Department official repeatedly objected to questions about Hillary Clinton's private email address during a deposition earlier this month. The transcript, released on Monday ...

A Brooklyn federal magistrate judge objected to the 600 objections a lawyer made during a deposition, and now the city is going to pay for it. Assistant Corporation Counsel Amatullah Booth, a city ...

Updated at 5:17 p.m. ET House Democrats postponed the first of their planned series of depositions about the Ukraine affair after objections by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday. The former ...

In litigation, the customary way of doing things often becomes the precedent for doing them, even when there is a procedural rule governing those actions that is inconsistent with, if not ...