Pleadings
Name of the document a defendant files to respond to a lawsuit.
What is the Answer?
Name given to privilege protecting communications between a lawyer and someone seeking legal advise.
What is attorney-client privilege?
An out of court statement being offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted?
What is hearsay?
Written questions asked of another party.
What are interrogatories?
Name the chapter in this Indiana Code citation: 32-31-3-9
What is Chapter 3?
The name of the top portion of a pleading containing the parties, court, and cause number.
What is the caption?
Type of attorney fee arrangement where attorney is not paid until and unless she wins or settles case for client.
What is a contingency fee?
Word the judge uses when disagreeing with an objection.
What is overruled?
An attorney must do this prior to filing a motion to compel.
What is informally attempt to resolve the discovery dispute under Rule 26(F)?
The names of Indiana's two (2) federal district courts.
What are the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana?
Type of pleading standard in Indiana courts needing just a short and plain statement of the claim.
What is notice pleading?
When representation of one client is directly adverse to representation of another.
What is a conflict of interest?
What is Judicial Notice?
Where a witness may be compelled to give their deposition.
What is the county where they reside and/or work?
The volume of the reporter containing this case:
Adams v. Chavez, 874 N.E.2d 1038 (Ind. Ct. App. 2007)
What is volume 874?
Length of time a Defendant has to respond to a lawsuit after service if served by mail.
What is 23 days.
Funds client pays an attorney that have not yet been earned by the attorney and must remain in a trust account until earned.
What is a retainer?
How long after the date of conviction or release from confinement, whichever occurs last, before an Ashton offense is no longer admissible?
What is 10 years?
This is the definition of the scope of discovery.
What is reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence?
The amount in controversy requirement to invoke the federal district court's diversity jurisdiction.
What is greater than $75,000.00?
Name of the entity designated by an organization to receive service on its behalf.
What is a registered agent?
Who is the client?
A statement describing or explaining an event made while or immediately after the declarant perceived it?
What is a present sense impression?
A subpoena duces tecum compels a witness to do what?
What is appear and produce documents?
Under federal question jurisdiction, name given to type of jurisdiction court has to hear non-federal claims deriving from a "common nucleus of operative fact."
What is supplemental jurisdiction?