Legal Question in Employment Law in California
I am in mandatory arbitration
My former employeer is trying to severly limit my witness list. I want to call 12 witness all have good reason to be witnesses. They all have material important to my case. Company lawyers are saying since i can not pay for my deposition of these witnesses he will file paper work to prevent the witnesses from coming to the arbitration.What paperwork is he refering to? How can I stop this?
2 Answers from Attorneys
Often there are no depositions before arbitration, but if they are your witnesses, you can talk to them privately. I dont know, but if I were your attorney I would hope I could get all your witnesses to testify by arguing that their objections are not a valid reason to keep the truth from the arbitrators. Where is the arbitration?
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You have no obligation to pay for depositions of your own witnesses. They have to pay for them. They are jerking you around. Don't let them. Tell them you will make your witnesses available for deposition at their expense for witnesses who will appear if you ask them to. Tell them to subpoena the witnesses for deposition at their expense for witnesses who will only show up if subpoenaed.