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Ask The Court to Perform an In-Camera Review of the Documents Being Withheld On the Claim of Privilege

By Katherine Gallo on February 3, 2025

Posted in Attorney Client, Code Compliant Demand, Responses and Objections, Discovery Referee, Official Information, Privacy, Request for Production of documents, Work Product

Most discovery disputes involve requests for production of documents. This is because there are specific requirements for a party to properly respond to the request which has been the subject of many of my blogs, including a responding party’s obligation to state whether the documents you are seeking ever existed and where they are now…

2016 New Years Resolution–New Requirements for Deposition Notices

By Katherine Gallo on February 2, 2016

Posted in Attorney Client, Changes in the Law, Code Compliant Demand, Responses and Objections

There was only one change to the Discovery Codes but it was significant. The legislature added language to Code of Civil Procedure Section 2025.220 with added requirements when you serve a deposition notice. The deposition Notice must now contain:

(8)(A) A statement disclosing the existence of a contract, if any is known to the noticing party, between the noticing party or a third party who is financing all or part of the action and either of the following for any service beyond the noticed deposition:

(i) The deposition officer.

(ii) The entity providing the services of the deposition officer.

(B) A statement disclosing that the party noticing the deposition, or a third party financing all or part of the action, directed his or her attorney to use a particular officer or entity to provide services for the deposition, if applicable.

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