Adverse Witness Depositions: Advanced Techniques in Exhaustion, Boxing-In, and Summarizing
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE webinar will cover advanced deposition techniques in commercial litigation. The panel will discuss strategies for getting the most out of depositions, including exhaustion, boxing-in, and summarization techniques for ordinary, hostile, or evasive witnesses.
Outline
- Introduction
- Exhaustion
- Restating/summarizing
- Boxing-in
- Structuring depositions for difficult and evasive witnesses
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- How exhausting the subject prevents surprises at trial and aids impeachment
- Using these technicques with the evasive witness
- The art of boxing in the evasive or hostile witness
- How the "summarizing" technique can prevent witnesses from changing positions later in the case.
Faculty

Michael R. Gordon
Founder and Managing Partner
GordonLaw
Mr. Gordon has been representing businesses and individuals in all aspects of dispute avoidance and resolution since... | Read More
Mr. Gordon has been representing businesses and individuals in all aspects of dispute avoidance and resolution since 1989. Some examples of the matters Mr. Gordon has handled include acting as lead litigation counsel for a major foreign bank sued for billions of dollars in connection with the bankruptcy of a large telecom company, successfully fending off a $100 million lender liability case against one of the five largest U.S. banks, and obtaining a $48 million judgment against a large California real estate developer. He is a frequent speaker and writer on a variety of topics related to litigation and is the former Co-Chair of the Commercial Disputes Practice Group at a global, AmLaw 100 law firm.
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John A. Snow
Shareholder
Parsons Behle & Latimer
Mr. Snow's practice focuses on general civil litigation. He is listed in "The Best Lawyers in America" in... | Read More
Mr. Snow's practice focuses on general civil litigation. He is listed in "The Best Lawyers in America" in the areas of commercial litigation, construction law, and legal malpractice law, is recognized in "Mountain States Super Lawyers" in the area of business litigation and named one of Utah's legal elite in the areas of business and civil litigation and construction law by "Utah Business Magazine."
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