Using social media to build — and protect — your case

You must thoroughly research social media on every case and brief your clients on how their postings may be used against them

Steven A. Kronenberg

From Issue: 2019 April

Using deposition testimony to support your motion to compel

Make it harder for defense to justify withholding documents you need

Tilak Gupta

From Issue: 2022 February

To stop or to go?

Making sense of “who ran the red light?”

Allen Bourgeois
Matthew Manjarrez

From Issue: 2017 May

Securing the universe of documents in civil-rights actions

You are only as good a civil-rights practitioner as the discovery you compel. Yes, compel.

Denisse O. Gastélum

From Issue: 2021 February

New discovery requirements, sanctions, and procedures for 2020

Production of documents, electronic exchange of interrogatories and requests for admission, and use of federal discovery procedures in state courts

Stephanie Taft

From Issue: 2020 February

Informal Discovery Conferences

An effective and efficient way to resolve most discovery disputes

Holly J. Fujie

From Issue: 2018 July

Using discovery to establish liability for bicycle accidents within construction zones

Don’t focus too sharply on the condition that caused the injury. Look at the failures of the public and private entities that created the dangerous condition

Casey A. Kaufman

From Issue: 2022 February

Turn up the heat on your record subpoenas

You’ve served the subpoena duces tecum but still don’t have the documents – here’s your game plan

Clifton N. Smoot

From Issue: 2019 April

The added value of a private investigator in a motor-vehicle case

What you don’t learn from a police report may be just what you need to prove liability and identify other defendants

Harry Kazakian

From Issue: 2021 January

Protecting your client’s privacy in discovery

Be prepared to keep your client’s irrelevant personal history out of discovery whenever possible; that felony conviction, however, may be a bridge too far

Jeffrey Greenman

From Issue: 2018 March

Investigating and conducting written discovery in roadway-design cases

Getting past the roadblock of the commonly asserted defense of design immunity

Kimberly Wong

From Issue: 2019 April

Full investigation of the accident scene can reveal other responsible parties

When the primary defendant is underinsured, a thorough investigation of the accident scene can yield surprising evidence of negligence by other parties

Casey A. Kaufman

From Issue: 2017 May