Total Credits: 2 including 2 General
Taking high-quality adverse depositions is the most important teachable litigation skill. Taking a high-quality adverse deposition requires the conscientious application of an integrated set of logical cross-examination rules, the very set of rules that law schools should have offered to their students in a full-semester course, and litigation law firms should have taught their newbies (and their partners) … but never, ever did! Thus, mediocre adverse depositions abound, while high-quality ones are a rarity. This program wastes no time on entry-level wisdom, code chatter, idiosyncratic war stories, or tired maxims. This program teaches how to take adverse depositions the right way: as an intellectually rigorous discipline. (Note: This is a 120-minute version of a customary 690-minute program; thus, choices had to be made re what to include/omit.)
• Civil Litigation §101: Best Case Theory
• “Battleships”: the indispensable checklist of recurring Q&A
• Four nearly-everybody-agrees deposition rules
• The “Grand Unified Theory” of deposition cross-examination
• Discovery depositions vs. evidentiary depositions
• When to save impeachment for trial and when to use in deposition
• “Whack!” defined & demonstrated in a high-profile cross-examination
• When to ask leading questions in deposition
• Seven crucial advantages: deposition cross-examiner vs. trial cross-examiner
Great Adverse Depositions - Robert Musante (2.5 MB) | 68 Pages | Available after Purchase |
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