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: Winning at Deposition won the highest award available for legal publications: ACLEA's Award for Professional Excellence. The book won first prize from a field of over 300 entries submitted by continuing legal education publishers from across the USA...read more

<p> With its precise and succinct methodology, Mauet’s text has earned widespread popularity and use, edition after edition. </p> <p> <b>The Seventh Edition continues to build on the strengths that have made Pretrial a classic:</b> </p> <ul> <li> <b>highly distinguished authorship</b>—featuring recognized leading trial expert and renowned legal education author Thomas A. Mauet </li> <li> <b>a clear, concise, and well-organized presentation of pretrial preparation techniques</b> </li> <li> <b>a systematic approach</b> that organizes pretrial planning and preparation into a series of distinct steps that students can readily master </li> <li> <b>sample litigation files from a hypothetical case</b> that constitute <b> examples</b> of <b>documentation</b> and paperwork <b>at every stage</b> of the civil case </li> <li> <b>additional litigation files on an included CD-ROM</b>, with both plaintiff’s and defendant's files for six different civil cases </li> <li> <b>citations to commonly used treatises</b> </li> </ul> <p> <b>Featured in the Seventh Edition:</b> </p> <ul> <li> <b>the electronic discovery rules changes</b>, which became effective with the 12/1/06 adoption of the amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and their <b> effects on the pretrial process in general and the discovery process in particular</b> </li> <li> the Supreme Court’s decision in <b>Bell Atlantic v. Twombly</b> and its <b> effects on how complaints are drafted</b> </li> <li> the <b>Class Action Fairness Act</b> and how it <b>changes the basis for removing class actions to federal court</b> </li> <li> the most recent <b>statutory changes and cases on the tax consequences of personal injury settlements</b> </li> <li> additional <b>statutory changes and Supreme Court decisions since 2004</b> </li> </ul> <p> Show your students how to prepare for and conduct civil litigation effectively, with Thomas Mauet’s highly regarded <b>Pretrial</b>—now in its <b>Seventh Edition.</b> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

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: The use of e-mail and electronically stored data has fundamentally changed the discovery process and the judicial standards for what is a “reasonable” discovery request. It has also led to new strategies and tactics that can mean the difference between winning and losing a case...read more

Product Description: Make your courtroom presentations more persuasive! Modern Visual Evidence shows you how to use—and limit—video, audiovisual and computer-generated evidence in tort, commercial and criminal cases, complex securities actions, antitrust cases, environmental suits, infringement actions and any action involving expert witnesses...read more