Key Practice Management Updates: Preparing Discovery Plans, Expert Evidence, Costs Outlines and More – Webshop A 2013

Topics

• Expert Evidence
  • Timing of delivery of your expert reports
  • What must be included in counsel’s instructions to the expert?
  • Ensuring expert witnesses are kept abreast of the litigation stage and that they are available at the time of trial
• Discovery Plans
  • What items must be included? Which are optional?
  • How detailed should your Discovery Plans be?
  • Dealing with counsel that do not provide a plan
  • What does it depend on?
  • Establishing guidelines that lawyers can refer to when meeting with opposing counsel so that all relevant steps and timing can be discussed efficiently and effectively
  • Consequences of not filing or not following a discovery plan
• Costs Outlines
  • Strategies for making the process of compiling a costs outline more efficient
  • Costs outline vs. Bill of Costs: What to use when
  • Are the rates set out in the "Information for the Profession" table merely a guideline?
  • How to calculate partial and substantial indemnity rates
  • Work through a mock scenario and a sample document