This book provides comprehensive descriptions and concrete illustrations of effective strategies and techniques for taking and defending depositions. The book can serve as a text for a 2-4 unit stand-alone depositions course (either live client or simulated) or as a supplement to a civil pre-trial lawyering course. The book devotes separate chapters to such fundamental skills as obtaining helpful answers to critical questions, undercutting harmful testimony, obtaining a deponent's version of significant events, and obtaining information from evasive deponents. Other chapters include topics such as responding to inconsistent or implausible testimony, overcoming opposing counsel's objections and obstructionist tactics, and preparing a client to be deposed.

Product Description: Depositions are playing a more critical role in the litigation process. Make sure you have considered various tactics, strategies and potential problems when going into your next deposition. Tap into the vast experience of expert litigators with the Deposition Handbook, Fifth Edition, and gain valuable insights and skills including: - Practical advice covering every stage of a deposition; - Techniques for eliciting information and effective questioning; - Video deposition guidelines; - Proven strategies, procedures, and case studies; - Rules governing conduct; - Sample questions; - And much more The Deposition Handbook delivers on being a truly user-friendly and concise guide offering expert advice on the strategies, tactics, and mechanics needed to handle depositions successfully...read more

Product Description: Features easy-to-read textual material on deposition strategy, preparation, conduct, and rules, with illustrative examples. Includes two mock case records for use in in-house training programs. One record involves an employment discrimination problem, the other a personal injury case...read more

Product Description: This edition features easy-to-read textual material on deposition strategy, preparation, conduct, and rules. Illustrative examples are found throughout, as well as sidebar summaries of major points. It is ideal as a text for a simulation class or as a reference for law school clinics...read more

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Product Description: Packed with insights from top litigators, The Litigation Manual has been valued as much for its refreshing style as its practical, how-to approach. This new addition to The Litigation Manual library focuses on depositions. It includes 24 articles from the American Bar Association's Litigation journal that examine the broad range of issues involved in conducting effective depositions...read more

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

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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)

Product Description: The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr...read more

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

Product Description: Designed for both experienced and novice attorneys, Taking Depositions gives attorneys the confidence they need to ask the right questions by providing deposition question outlines, advice in representing clients, and tips for questioning the witness...read more

Product Description: Describes the skills needed to help win a case and avoid mistakes that may ruin it. Enables readers to understand what to expect and provides tips on how to dress, act and reply to questions when called upon to give a deposition. Each section features a sidebar callout summarizing advice for last-minute cramming...read more

Product Description: This is a must have for professionals, whether it is used as a reference or as a useful source for helpful tips in the event of a lawsuit. It acts as a defense against the trial lawyer's most powerful weapon, the deposition. Addresses such issues as the attorney-client relationship, tricky questions to counter during depositions, and psychological warfare and tactics...read more

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