This popular title guides practitioners through discovery practice before the MSPB with forms, MSPB regulations, MSPB guidance issued to its judges, case law citations, relevant Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and samples of discovery requests and related motions. Provides appellant advocates and agency counsel, guidance to use throughout the discovery process. Also included is detailed direction on the handling of witnesses during discovery, with extensive examples.

Agencies and appellants maximize discovery by following the author's guidance on:

• Discovery: Overview and Rules—discovery procedures, methods, rules, regulations, and statutes
• Non-Discovery Tools—FOIA and Privacy Act
• Instructions to Parties—samples of the instructions that typically precede written discovery
• Depositions—preparation and sample deposition notices
• Interrogatories—drafting and sample interrogatories covering principal issues raised within the jurisdiction of the MSPB
• Requests for Document Production—procedure and samples of instructions and specific requests
• Physical and Mental Exams—discussion of Rule 35 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and sample motions and release forms
• Requests for Admissions—samples
• Motions to Compel Discovery—drafting, and sample motions and responses to motions
• Protection Against Discovery—types of privileges; discovery that is burdensome, overly broad, unduly repetitious, and irrelevant; and methods of responding to improper requests
• Sanctions—procedures and samples
• Use of Discovered Information—instructional guidance on how to submit discovered information into the record
• Appendix I—Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Also includes a detailed table of contents.

Available as a softcover book and/or a PDF file with many useful features delivered on a CD-ROM, USB Flash Drive, or download. Hyperlinks allow the reader to move quickly between the Table of Contents and the corresponding portions of the text. Internal hyperlinks serve as a cross-reference feature within the text.

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