Contacting and Compensating a Non-Party/Former Employee Fact Witness

What is the rule for <I>ex parte</I> contact with a corporate adversary's former employee? What you need to know.

14 minute read June 10, 2013 at 03:58 PM

John J. Weinholtz And Kevin T. Saunders

Contacting and Compensating a Non-Party/Former Employee Fact Witness

Every good civil trial movie worth the price of admission seems to have as its climax the former employee who has long harbored some dark secret about the employer that is now revealed on the stand years later and that saves the day for the downtrodden plaintiff (and even more downtrodden attorney).

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