MORE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT DEPOSITIONS
| by Heather Duncan, Esq.
Over the next few months the Network News will be providing brief answers to some of our most frequently asked questions.
| by Heather Duncan, Esq.
Over the next few months the Network News will be providing brief answers to some of our most frequently asked questions.
| by Heather Duncan, Esq.
Over the next few months the Network News will be providing brief answers to some of our most frequently asked questions.
| by Heather Duncan, Esq.
As we all know, it is the job of the court reporter to put a deponent under oath or affirmation at the start of a deposition. What is less clear is what form the oath or affirmation should take.
| by Heather Duncan, Esq.
In this month’s Network News we will be discussing using the videotaped deposition of a treating doctor or expert witness in lieu of live testimony at trial.
| by Heather Duncan, Esq.
Until 2011, California state courts had official court reporters available for most hearings and trials. The court reporters were employees of the courts and the fees they could charge for official court transcripts were mandated by Article 9 of the California Government Code.
| by Heather Duncan, Esq.
(a.k.a. Person Most Knowledgeable, PMK)
When used correctly, the deposition of a Person Most Qualified (PMQ) is a powerful discovery tool. The entity named in a PMQ deposition notice is considered to be the deponent.
| by Heather Duncan, Esq.
In a slight departure from our usual deposition tips, this month’s Network News provides a short overview of ten of the over 1,000 new California laws that began affecting our lives on January 1, 2018:
| by Heather Duncan, Esq.
By now, we all know that a California court reporter must uphold the strictest standards of professional neutrality and impartiality as outlined in the Business & Professions Code, California Code of Regulations and California Code of Civil Procedure (CCP). The court reporter is not an agent of any one party, attorney, or deponent, but is a neutral and impartial officer of the court, entrusted with the job of creating a record of every word spoken when the parties are on the record.