Requests for Admission: Achieving What Other Discovery Cannot, Reducing Costs, Supporting Summary Judgment
Recording of a 90-minute CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE webinar will guide seasoned trial attorneys on the most effective use of requests for admission (RFAs) and the best response strategies. The panel will cover the underappreciated value of RFAs, their purposes, the proper scope of RFAs, how to respond and object adequately, and strategies to employ when the opposing party fails to respond.
Outline
- Overview of FRCP 36 and state counterparts
- Timing, planning, and drafting productive RFAs
- Responding to RFAs and contending with evasive answers
- Enforcement and strategic use of RFAs
- Altering or amending responses to the admissions
Benefits
The panel will discuss these and other pivotal issues:
- Which issues are best suited for RFAs?
- How can counsel avoid unclear RFAs?
- What is an acceptable explanation for "lack of sufficient information" to admit or deny?
- Can facts incorrectly, but in good faith, admitted, be corrected?
Faculty
Miles B. Cooper
Shareholder
Coopers
Compassion combined with trial experience, strategy, risk assessment, passionate communication, growth, relentless... | Read More
Compassion combined with trial experience, strategy, risk assessment, passionate communication, growth, relentless pursuit, and community involvement. These tools live at the top of Mr. Cooper's toolbox. As a writer, speaker, and communicator, Mr. Cooper absorbs information, distills it, and presents it persuasively to decisionmakers. The communication style he employs – simple, straightforward, and heartfelt – is the same winning method used by the team to help others comprehend the full extent of harm people have suffered. He shares this approach with others in the legal community through his legal practice column, Back Story, which has educated and entertained Plaintiff magazine’s readers monthly for over 10 years.
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Colin E. Flora
Civil Litigation Attorney
Pavlack Law
Mr. Flora focuses his practice on civil litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants. This ranges from personal injury... | Read More
Mr. Flora focuses his practice on civil litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants. This ranges from personal injury to class actions and other complex litigation matters.
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Sara Frankenstein
Attorney
Gunderson, Palmer, Nelson & Ashmore
Ms. Frankenstein is a partner of Gunderson, Palmer, Nelson & Ashmore, LLP. She practices in the areas of Employment... | Read More
Ms. Frankenstein is a partner of Gunderson, Palmer, Nelson & Ashmore, LLP. She practices in the areas of Employment Law, Insurance Defense, General Litigation, Election Law, Governmental, Administrative, and Municipal Law.
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Robert A. Roth
Partner
Complex Appellate Litigation Group
Mr. Roth is widely regarded as one of the leading family law appellate specialists in California. He has over 30... | Read More
Mr. Roth is widely regarded as one of the leading family law appellate specialists in California. He has over 30 years’ experience as an appellate practitioner and more than 25 published (and scores of unpublished) appellate opinions to his name. Robert has won twice in the California Supreme Court, and notably represented the successful respondent in In re Marriage of Ostler and Smith (1990) 223 Cal.App.3d 33, a seminal case that established the method California courts use every day to calculate division of bonus income. Mr. Roth was one of the first attorneys in California certified as an appellate specialist by the State Bar. He has remained a certified appellate specialist for more than two decades. In addition to family law appeals,Mr. Roth has substantial experience handling probate, real property, business transaction, tort insurance, admiralty, and State Bar appeals.
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