Assembling Your Evidence: Mistakes to avoid

Dan Schiavetta, Jr. | Russo & Gould LLP

Dan Schiavetta, Jr. (currently Of Counsel to Russo & Gould, LLP, New York, N.Y.) has been a lawyer for 30 years litigating personal injury actions in State and Federal courts. He has given several live presentations and webinars on defending the Catholic Church in sex abuse lawsuits, insurance coverage and bad faith, electronically stored information in litigation, and defense of nursing homes. Dan is admitted in New York, New Jersey, and all related federal District and Circuit courts. His prior career was as a social worker and director of a 24 – hour crisis center.

I. How to find evidence during discovery and depositions and make it admissible | 1:00pm – 1:20pm

II. Getting your evidence in and keeping theirs out | 1:20pm – 1:40pm

III. Hearsay exceptions and how they have changed in the digital era | 1:40pm – 2:00pm

Break | 2:00pm – 2:10pm

IV. Aside from Dan’s own experience, some recent and relevant case law | 2:10pm – 2:40pm