Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30b6, if organization receives notice of deposition it must designate individuals to testify about information known or reasonably available. If deponent has no personal knowledge of subject, corporation must educate them.
ESI discovery involves five fundamental steps: identification, preservation, collection, review, production. The initial client interview is crucial to litigation success and maintaining a healthy skepticism concerning a client’s initial explanation of a case is critical.
You or your company are being sued. What do you do? Here are the basic first steps you should take upon receiving a complaint. Take note of how and when you received it. Who is being sued and where? Call your lawyer or get a lawyer. Notify insurance carriers.
In In re McGowan, dispute arose on whether certain interests in real property were funded into trust or decedent still had those interests at the time of his death such that they were in his estate. The parties claiming interests were in a trust filed claims in probate case.
Federal Circuit in In re Stingray IP Solutions granted writ of mandamus vacating decision of Eastern District Court of Texas to transfer patent infringement suit against foreign defendants to Central District of California based on post-suit consent to jurisdiction there.