Who Form 5495 Litigation 2017-2023

Welcome to learn about law my name is Kevin o Flaherty from O'Flaherty law and today we're going to talk about the written discovery phase of litigation ready discovery is the way that attorneys find out what the other side's position is on why they're denying certain allegations in the complaint or what information that they have or documents that they have that may not be available to our clients at the outset of litigation so there's four main documents that we we use in written discovery interrogatories requests for production requests to admit facts and subpoenas interrogatories are written questions to the other side that the other side has to answer in writing included in written interrogatories are things like what witnesses are you going to call a trial why did you deny certain allegations of the complaint what's your position and also specific targeted and requests for information that is in the other side's possession when they get written interrogatories they either have to object to the interrogatory or answer the interrogatory fully in writing the second document is a request for production of documents so this is a request for the other side to produce documents to us that are in their possession but aren't in ours and we list usually 30 or so depending on the case targeted request for specific documents and they have to either again object to providing those documents the third tool and written discovery is request to admit facts so a request to admit the purpose of that document is to winnow down the issues that have to be litigated at trial so if we think we're all in agreement that certain facts are true if we issue a request to admit we say please admit that substance such fact is...