If you have been to a deposition, you have heard both improper questions and improper objections. Rarely, however, do court opinions or rules focus on whether counsel’s behavior violated the Rules of ...

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 ...

As a young associate, taking a deposition can be both an exciting and intimidating process. Aside from trial, this may be the only time you are face-to-face with your adversaries, questioning and ...

It’s a common practice during a deposition for lawyers to assert legal objections to witness testimony but then allow the deposition to proceed. In fact, this practice is broadly encouraged.

A: There are only certain objections at deposition that are proper, and then only a few of those that permit the witness to refuse to answer. The objection you mention, “incomplete hypothetical,” is ...

She may be the city’s most objectionable lawyer. A de Blasio administration lawyer has been sanctioned — and the city is facing a $10,000 fine — because she raised objections more than 600 times ...

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 ...