Description
Learn how best to conduct depositions and how to prepare the materials so they are usable at trial.Many attorneys believe you lose your case before the jury is sworn. What this means is if you have not properly prepared the case before trial, you will not be able to save the case during trial by winging it. This material will help attorneys prepare their cases so that all the necessary information and tools are at hand and in a usable, convincing format when the case is tried. We will discuss how to determine which witnesses to depose and why, whether to videotape the witnesses you do choose to depose and why, how to powerfully preserve testimony of witness you know or have reasonable concerns will not appear live at trial, how to use a discovery deposition to set up a powerful crossexamination of the opposing side’s witness(es) at trial, and the proper evidentiary procedure for intrial impeachment.
Date: 2021-08-25 Start Time: End Time:
Learning Objectives
Planning Ahead for Your Deposition
• Selecting the Witness to Depose
• Deciding If You Should Videotape It
• Do You Need an Interpreter?
Taking a Deposition to Preserve Testimony
• Plan the Deposition to Go Just as If the Witness Were Live at Trial
• Witness Attire and Props
• Do Not Ask More Than You Need
Taking a Deposition to Set up Cross-Examination
• Deposing the Opposing Party’s Main Witness (Fact or Expert)
• Why You Videotape Some, but Never Others
• Focus on Snippets of Testimony
Cutting the Deposition for Trial
• Page/Line Designations of Witness You Are Calling on Direct
• Have Your Cross-Examination Ready to Go
• Deciding Whether You Should Use an Available Video
Impeaching With a Deposition
• Laying the Proper Predicate
• Using the Deposition Transcript
• Using Video Cuts
CLE (Please check the Detailed Credit Information page for states that have already been approved) ,NALA ,Additional credit may be available upon request. Contact Lorman at 866-352-9540 for further information.
Deborah J. Gander-Colson Hicks Eidson
