The Pennsylvania Superior Court has said that in a reopened deposition, a witness can be asked whether he spoke with his attorney during deposition breaks about the subject of the deposition, but that ...

Because jurisdictions vary widely in their treatment of deposition break conferences, practitioners should not assume that conversations with clients during deposition breaks will be covered by ...

Review the FRCP to understand the scope of permissible inquiry at a deposition. Under the FRCP, a deposing attorney may ask questions about any nonprivileged matter that is relevant to any party’s ...

The rule seems simple enough: Attorneys defending a witness during a deposition may instruct the witness not to answer questions only for the purpose of protecting privileged information. And yet, if ...

One of the attorneys for Ohio retail billionaire Les Wexner tried to keep his client's testimony succinct and on topic during a nearly five-hour deposition before members of Congress. Wexner, 88, ...

When a plan fiduciary communicates with an attorney, those communications are not always protected by attorney-client privilege. If a fiduciary is getting advice from an attorney on a matter related ...