Topics include:
• Case evaluation, engagement budgets and client relations
• Pre-suit proceedings - litigation due diligence, investigations, witness interviews and evidence preservation
• Pleadings – drafting techniques and pleading strategies
• Discovery – scope and privilege issues; Rule 26 disclosures; best practices; case management; discovery of electronically stored information; effective use of interrogatories and document requests; deposition procedures, strategies and techniques; requests for admission; independent medical examinations and non-party discovery
• Experts – role of experts; finding and retaining experts; preparation of reports; discovery issues; and admissibility of expert opinion testimony
• Motions – strategies, procedures and standards for motions directed to pleadings, discovery and dispositive issues; brief writing and oral argument
• Final trial preparation – pre-trial exchanges/submissions; pre-trial conferences and motions in limine

Register at rutgerscle.com . Registration fee: $125

Open to the legal community. CLE: NJ: 4.8 | NY: 4.5 | PA: 4.0

Contact info@IPE.rutgers.edu or 973-353-5928.