In the three years since my article Best Practices for Issuing Subpoenas: Depositions of Georgia Residents in Cases Pending Out of State was published, I’ve been helping out-of-state counsel issue, serve, and enforce out-of-state subpoenas. And almost every case teaches me something new. I began this series with Practice Pointer No. 1: It is Georgia [...]
With two librarians in my family, I think my mom would be proud that I am asking, “What would a librarian do?” in studying ways for cost-effective legal research. In Thinking Like a Librarian: Tips for Better Legal Research, Richard Buckingham, the Electronic Services and Legal Reference Librarian at Suffolk University Law School, offers practicing [...]
In the three years since my article Best Practices for Issuing Subpoenas: Depositions of Georgia Residents in Cases Pending Out of State was published, I’ve been helping out-of-state counsel issue, serve, and enforce out-of-state subpoenas. And almost every case teaches me something new. I began the series with Practice Pointer No. 1: It is Georgia [...]
Now that you are a practicing lawyer and writing briefs for real, how do you improve your writing? For me, it started with a Bryan Garner seminar. His seminar will give new life to your writing, and you’ll leave wondering how your partners will react when you write your first brief without the long “COMES [...]
In the three years since my article Best Practices for Issuing Subpoenas: Depositions of Georgia Residents in Cases Pending Out of State was published, I’ve continued helping out-of-state counsel issue, serve, and enforce out-of-state subpoenas. And I learn something new and refine this area of my practice with almost every case. I’ll be sharing some [...]
Unlike the patchwork of state rules governing out-of-state discovery, federal rules make it much easier to get documents and testimony outside state lines. When you, as the attorney, need testimony or documents from a witness in a federal judicial district in which you are not admitted, you may need local counsel—an attorney admitted to practice [...]
You know the feeling: you’re reading case after case and you find it! The perfect quotation for your brief. You make sure it’s not in the dissent—and then you copy and paste. But to get the best use of that quotation, don’t stop with pasting it in your brief and adding a colon after The [...]
For Georgia state courts, subpoenas cannot be served using substituted service. But not all federal district courts in Georgia have addressed whether substituted service is valid service under Rule 45. Courts have detailed the split among courts and there are valid arguments for both sides. But, without getting into the debate of whether personal service [...]