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, Deposition Practice Handbook shows you: * How to pin down and "freeze" witnesses' testimony with an early deposition so they can't change their story later * How to make a deposition a lot more effective by getting an interrogatory answered first * Twelve proven ways to discredit a witness * How not to open Pandora's box when questioning a third-party witness * How to avoid the trap of allowing your opponent to set the deposition times And, most important of all: * How to turn talk into evidence that's admissible in court What's more, Martiniak provides checklists, outlines, reminders, and dozens of practice tips...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)