3 Surprising Deposition Dangers Attorneys Must Heed
In federal court, all rules and deadlines are important and should not be missed. But, as every practicing litigator knows, some mistakes are more dire than others.
A March 28 order in Larsen v. PTT LLC from U.S. District Judge Tiffany M. Cartwright in the Western District of Washington, for example, excused the filing of an oversized brief as inadvertent and in good faith.
By contrast, forgetting to exercise your right to a jury could be irreversible, as discussed ad nauseam a few months ago when many believed former President Donald Trump's attorneys had done exactly that in the New York attorney general's business fraud suit against Trump and his company.
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