Effective Discovery: Techniques and Strategies That Work

• ISBN: 9781601564368

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  This title is also available as an eBook on Vitalsource.com and from other eBook providers. eBooks offer an enhanced reading experience at a discounted rate compared to print.
  
  Effective Discovery: Techniques and Strategies That Work is a comprehensive practical guide to "paper" discovery and related undertakings—discovery conferences, plans, reports, and orders; disclosures; interrogatories; requests for production; physical and mental exams; requests for admission; electronic discovery; motions; and subpoenas. This informative and eminently readable text takes litigators through the stages of discovery, addressing:

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  • discover objectives, planning, strategies, ethics, and rules; 
  • when and how to use discovery devices alone and in combination; 
  • how to assess which discovery devices will work best in your circumstances; 
  • how to draft discovery designed to get needed information;
  • how to respond when the other side is evading—or refusing—your discovery;
  • proportionality—assessing when enough is enough, too much, or not nearly enough;
  • what judges want and don’t want—and the Laws of Unintended Consequences and What Goes Around, Comes Around.

  The book is a companion to NITA’s best-selling The Effective Deposition. Together, the two volumes provide an in-depth guide to discovery in all its forms.