Deposition Techniques and Strategies: Beyond the Basics

Outline

1. Preparing for depositions
   1. Developing a discovery strategy
   2. Determining whether to or not to take a deposition
   3. Preparing for the personality dynamics — the witness and opposing counsel
   4. Preparing the witness
2. Conducting the deposition
   1. Determining your style
   2. Crafting questions to determine the deponent’s personality
   3. Ways to use exhibits
   4. Handling opposing counsel’s objections
   5. Listening techniques
3. Defending the deposition
   1. Prepare your witness prior to the deposition
   2. Teach your witness listening skills
   3. Raising objections
   4. Ways to assert or gain control
4. Using deposition testimony
   1. Post-deposition strategies
   2. Using deposition testimony during discovery
   3. Using deposition testimony during trial

Benefits

The panel will review these and other key questions:

• What are the most effective deposition preparation techniques?
• What are the best methods to control the dynamics of the deposition?
• What deposition questioning techniques will maximize the information you obtain from the witness?
• What are the best strategies to defend the deposition?
• How can deposition testimony be most effectively used during the case?

Following the speaker presentations, you'll have an opportunity to get answers to your specific questions during the interactive Q&A.