Sentences with phrase «during discovery opposing»

During discovery opposing parties request the production of relevant evidence and documents to encourage fair judicial proceedings and case settlements.

Not exact matches

What Clinton was trying to avoid during his first term as president, says Marcus, was discovery, the process by which lawyers seek information from the opposing parties before trial to build their case.

If the privilege is inapplicable or unclear, counsel should, initially, be aware that communications pertaining to their clients that were generated during the course of an internal investigation under the direction and supervision of in - house counsel, as opposed to locally licensed external counsel, may not be privileged and may be subject to discovery by authorities and third parties.73 Privilege protections may also not apply to documents and communications generated during internal investigations under the direction or supervision of an internal or external compliance or audit team.

Additionally, during pretrial procedures, attorneys shall not make frivolous discovery requests or fail to take reasonable steps to comply with legally proper discovery requests by an opposing party.

Defendants in civil cases used to try to bury opposing lawyers during discovery by handing over truckloads of documents and hoping they would never be able to find the one or two damning documents in the bunch.