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About the Book
An ABA best-seller, The Litigation Manual has been valued as much for its refreshing style as its practical, how-to approach. This addition to The Litigation Manual library focuses on depositions. The book includes the most useful articles on depositions from Litigation journal, taking you through the steps of an effective deposition. It covers the preparation before the deposition; what happens at the table; techniques and strategies; and special cases you may encounter. Specific topics include:
Documents and depositions
Multi-level depositions
Preparing a witness for depositions
Why most depositions preparation fails
130 rules for every deponent
Conducting the oral deposition
Taking depositions that stick
Using and utilizing depositions
Effective use of depositions at trial
Strategies in expert depositions
The book provides concrete, time-proven techniques and innovative ideas from many of the country's preeminent litigators. And it contains some of the best legal writing available--clear, informal and never dull. Read it and you will learn how to deal more effectively with the situations you face over and over again in preparing for and conducting a deposition.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Preparation
1. Documents and Depositions: The Basics 2. Reconstructing Reality: Preparing the Deponent to Testify 3. Preparing a Witness for Deposition 4. Talking Green-Showing Red: Why Most Deposition Preparation Fails 5. 130 Rules for Every Deponent
Chapter 2 At the Table
6. Taking Depositions 7. Medium vs. Tedium: Video Depositions Come of Age 8. Conducting the Oral Deposition 9. The Four-Hour Deposition 10. Multi-level Depositions 11. Depositions Under the New Federal Rules 12. Taking Depositions That Stick 13. Taking Chances at Depositions
Chapter 3 Strategies
14. Deposition Traps and Tactics 15. Preparing for Rule 612 16. Using and Utilizing Depositions 17. Deposition Essentials: New Basics for Old Masters 18. Effective Use of Depositions at Trial 19. Showing Your Hand: A Counter-Intuitive Strategy
Chapter 4 Special Cases
20. Preparing a Witness to Testify in a Commercial Case 21. Strategies in Expert Depositions 22. Playing Hardball in Expert Witness Depositions 23. Your Client's Employee is Being Deposed: Are You Prepared? 24. Deposing Corporations and Other Fictive Persons
