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 ...

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.

Bohdan S. Ozaruk writes: "Something is rotten. But it's not in Denmark....Rather it's in discovery in modern federal civil litigation...." With this leadoff, a U.S. District Court judge in Iowa ...