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Litigators in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, should take note
of a recent opinion by Judge Philip Ignelzi that significantly
amends and clarifies the rules governing counsel s conduct
during depositions. On March 30, 2021, in
I.L. v. Allegheny
Health Network, et al., G.D. 18-011924 (C.P. Allegheny), Judge
Ignelzi announced that in order to reduce the court s pretrial
workload and expand the scope of responses that may be elicited
from deponents (and in line with the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil
Procedure), counsel s role in defending depositions will be