Rounding up corporate staff for depositions gets tricky—and expensive—when the company is in the cruise line business and has employees on 17 ships all over the world. But that’s what Princess Cruises (B.C.) Limited faces. In one recent matter, the company needed testimony from a ship’s doctor on leave in South Africa. “We needed it within a week,” says general counsel Mona Ehrenreich. Normally, this would have been expensive. “I’m paying time, I’m paying tickets, I’m paying all kinds of things for a three-hour deposition,” she says.
But Ehrenreich had hired Jeffrey Maltzman, founding partner of litigation shop Maltzman Foreman, who had often used videoconferencing for taking depositions. Instead of flying from Miami, he rented a videoconference room in Johannesburg and had the doctor pay a house call. “Conservatively, I estimate that it would have cost at least $20,000 to have flown there with a court reporter and done the deposition live,” he says. “Our ultimate costs were less than $2,000.”
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