Tim P. Tryniecki is a partner at MG+M The Law Firm in their St. Louis, MO/O’Fallon, IL office. He is a civil litigation attorney with a decade plus of experience in the defense of products liability and general liability claims.
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This CLE will focus on strategies and considerations for taking fact witness depositions virtually during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic using platforms such as Zoom. While many of the practice pointers will be equally applicable to expert depositions, the emphasis will be on preparation of lay witnesses who may be unsophisticated or unfamiliar with the deposition process. Attorneys can expect to leave the CLE with a checklist for use in preparing for remote depositions.
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Date / Time: January 28, 2022
Closed-captioning available
Timothy P. Tryniecki | MG+M The Law Firm
Tim P. Tryniecki is a partner at MG+M The Law Firm in their St. Louis, MO/O’Fallon, IL office. He is a civil litigation attorney with a decade plus of experience in the defense of products liability and general liability claims. He has taken hundreds of fact and expert witness depositions and participated in trials as well as all types of alternative dispute resolution. He oversees the defense of litigation claims on behalf of clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small family-owned companies, spanning numerous industries, in the state and federal courts of Illinois, Missouri, and New York, among others. He is also active in pro bono work and the community generally and resides in St. Louis with his wife and young son.
I. How to untangle the web of local, state, and federal regulations currently applying to legal proceedings and management of public health concerns in that context | 1:00pm – 1:30pm
II. How interactions with clients, opposing counsel, and vendors may be augmented or re-framed in the context of a remote legal proceeding | 1:30pm – 2:00pm
Break | 2:00pm – 2:10pm
III. The use of technology and various ways to prepare oneself as well as witnesses to use it seamlessly in the context of litigation and specifically depositions | 2:10pm – 2:40pm
IV. Concrete things that attorneys can do in advance to ensure a smooth remote proceeding| 2:40pm – 3:10pm