Deposition
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Seelbach: Shifting depositions to Zoom did not reduce traditional deposition costs
“So what should have driven cost down actually ended up Either no drop in price or the cost actually went up to take a deposition.”
Seelbach: Over 90% of depositions were on Zoom from 2020 to 2022
“Over that two-year period, 20, 20 through 20, 22, the vast majority, I would dare say almost a hundred percent, 90 plus percent of depositions took place in Zoom rooms”
Seelbach: Deposition speed drives law firm case turnover like inventory
“I think more than impacting the outcome, it impacts the ability of a law firm to turn over its cases. So if you think about cases like inventory, the less delays you have baked into the system, the faster you can turn those cases.”
Seelbach: Traditional depositions cost roughly $1,000 per hour with agency markups
“And so the cost to take a deposition the way I just described is about a thousand dollars an hour by the time you pay all of those people. The sonographer, the videographer, they're sent to the job by a court reporting agency, which is a middleman, so they're …”