Product Description: This practical handbook explains when, why and how to use particular strategies, tactics, organizational approaches, methods, and techniques in taking and defending depositions. Packed with "trade secrets" that one-up the opposition, <b>How to Take and Defend Depositions, 3rd Edition</b> shows you: <li class=copymedium>How to pin down and "freeze" witnesses' testimony with an early deposition so they can't change their story later<li class=copymedium>How to make a deposition a lot more effective by getting an interrogatory answered first<li class=copymedium>Twelve proven ways to discredit a witness<li class=copymedium>How not to open Pandora's box when questioning a third-party witness<li class=copymedium>How to avoid the trap of allowing your opponent to set the deposition times<li class=copymedium> And How to turn talk into evidence that's admissible in court</ul> <i>What's more, Martiniak provides checklists, outlines, reminders, and dozens of practice tips...read more