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In today’s legal environment, civil litigators have precious few chances to showcase their talents at trial.  Most civil matters that survive motion practice settle before a jury is ever seated. If you have more than one or two civil trials per year as a litigator, you’re an outlier. Instead, lawyers who ply their trade in…

Every case taken on by an attorney is composed of multiple building blocks. Building blocks such as interviewing witnesses, providing helpful counsel to clients, and gathering evidence. These are just a few examples of the processes that attorneys manage. To successfully win a case, an attorney must be diligent in ensuring these processes adhere to…

The post-deposition process is of the utmost importance for any legal proceeding. While attorneys closely examine testimony and fine-tune arguments, it’s often the rough draft of the transcript that becomes essential to the process. With AI-based legal software capable of generating easy-to-search rough transcripts as soon as the deposition ends, attorneys should be able to…

The legal industry has been busy driving immense changes since the events of 2020, and that includes shifting legal and administrative proceedings to virtual formats. Though their efforts haven’t received a high public profile, they’ve been no less explicit, even including a court technology paper endorsed by Chief Justices and State Judges, explaining that pandemic…

Not all remote depositions need to be recorded. However, just as recordings of in-person depositions are inadmissible in court unless a legal videographer creates them, you will also need a videographer for admissible remote depositions. Hiring a legal videographer for your remote deposition can come with a price tag of several hundred dollars plus additional…

Fueled by the need to pursue justice while keeping safe amid the pandemic, mobile videoconferencing is transforming depositions, arbitrations, and overall communication in the litigation world. It’s also helping legal professionals comply with the lawyer’s duty of competence, which reads:  “To maintain the requisite knowledge and skill, a lawyer should keep abreast of changes in…

During legal trials, court reporters assist the judicial system in converting spoken speech into text. The reporter also generates official verbatim transcripts that attorneys, judges, and litigants may utilize.  Court reporters play an essential part in legal processes by keeping the record  of everything that happens. These employees are in charge of recording depositions, trials,…