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Strategies for Difficult Deposition Situations: Post-Break Answer Changes, Rehabilitation,...
Practical Tips From the Perspective of Deposing and Defending Counsel
April 2, 2024 CLE Live Webinar
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The CLE webinar will offer guidance for navigating a number of deposition (or trial) witness difficulties and offer strategies and practical tips from the perspective of both the attorney deposing or examining a witness and counsel defending the witness. The panel will discuss strategies and solutio... Read More

Corporate Representative Depositions: Strategies for Obtaining or Preventing Discovery of...
Complex Interplay Between Federal Rule of Evidence 612 and Federal Rule of...
January 16, 2024 CLE CLE On-Demand, Download
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This CLE webinar will discuss strategies, such as how to avoid or compel disclosure of documents a witness reviewed before testifying and the competing duties to protect privilege and prepare the witness. The program will review the complex interplay between Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(6)... Read More

Cracking Down on Deposition Misconduct: Sanctions for Attorney and Witness Improprieties
Bringing and Defending Motions for Sanctions, Avoiding Misconduct, Creative...
January 4, 2024 CLE CLE On-Demand, Download
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This CLE course will guide trial lawyers through the dangerous area of deposition misconduct and creative judicial remedies. Whether dealing with an evasive witness or an obstreperous lawyer, courts are not shying away from issuing costly sanctions orders. Deposing counsel must know what tools are a... Read More

Expert Witness Depositions: Preparing to Attack the Opponent's Expert
Obtaining Testimony to Support Challenges Under FRE 702, Impeachment at Tri...
October 11, 2023 CLE CLE On-Demand, Download
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This CLE course will equip litigators with skills to obtain deposition testimony from opposing experts that can be used to impeach or disqualify the expert from testifying at trial and to gain leverage for favorable settlements. Our authoritative panel will provide techniques for eliciting favorable... Read More

Overcoming Counterfeit Objections and Preserving Evidence for Review
September 13, 2022 CLE CLE On-Demand, Download
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This CLE course will guide litigators through effective techniques to prevent, end, and even leverage counterfeit objections having no basis in the rules of evidence, including infamous speaking objections. Read More

Defending Rule 30(b)(6) Corporate Depositions: Responding to Deposition Notices, Selecting...
August 31, 2022 CLE CLE On-Demand, Download
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This CLE course will prepare trial attorneys to defend the depositions of corporate representatives during litigation. The panel will discuss how to respond to a Rule 30(b)(6) deposition notice and select and prepare witnesses for the deposition. The panel will also review the "meet and confer" requ... Read More

Adverse Witness Depositions: Advanced Techniques in Exhaustion, Boxing-In, and Summarizing
August 9, 2022 CLE CLE On-Demand, Download
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This CLE course will cover advanced deposition techniques in 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. Read More

Taking or Defending Depositions of In-House Counsel: Strategic, Substantive, and Ethical C...
July 26, 2022 CLE CLE On-Demand, Download
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This CLE course will enlighten in-house counsel and their trial lawyers on issues that can potentially damage the corporation when in-house counsel is noticed or subpoenaed for a deposition. The panel will explore motions to quash or limit such examinations, permissible lines of inquiry during these... Read More

Deposition Admissions: Maximizing the Number and Force of Admissions in Key Depositions
Creating Streamlined and Simple Narratives in Complex Cases and Sowing Dist...
April 7, 2022 CLE CLE On-Demand, Download
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This CLE course posits that the primary goals in a deposition of an opponent's key witness are the same as effective cross-examination at trial--to frame questions that will either elicit admissions or set up effective impeachment. The program will present a five-step approach for achieving these ob... Read More

Expert Witness Depositions: Preparing for and Deposing Opponents' Experts
Obtaining Testimony for Daubert Challenges, Impeachment at Trial, and Settl...
February 10, 2022 CLE CLE On-Demand, Download
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This CLE course will equip litigators to obtain from adverse experts the testimony and admissions needed for impeachment, to support disqualification or exclusion of testimony, and to acquire information that increases leverage in settlement negotiations. Our authoritative panel will provide techniq... Read More

Rule 30(b)(6) Changes One Year Later: Eliminating Deficient Subject Lists and Securing Bet...
December 9, 2021 CLE CLE On-Demand, Download
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This CLE webinar will examine whether the 2020 amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(6) have produced the hoped for improvements in getting better prepared witnesses giving useful testimony with fewer discovery disputes. The panel will review the language of the prior and current rules... Read More

Depositions of Senior Executives: Strategies for Taking and Defending "Apex" Witness Testi...
August 31, 2021 CLE CLE On-Demand, Download
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This CLE course will guide counsel through the unique challenges when someone seeks to depose a high-ranking executive, such as Chairman of the Board, CEO, President, etc. The panelist will discuss the best strategies for preventing abuse of such depositions in federal and state courts and those nee... Read More

Discrediting Deceptive Witnesses During Deposition: Preparation, Examination, Analysis, an...
August 5, 2021 CLE CLE On-Demand, Download
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This CLE course will guide counsel through the three stages of any deposition that will expose intentionally false and deliberately misleading testimony. The program will explore how to develop a thorough line of attack to expose lies and half-truths. Read More

Preparing the Empowered Witness: Moving Beyond the Traditions to Foster Assertive, Effecti...
Employing Common Sense, Emotional Intelligence, and Effective Techniques
September 28, 2020 CLE CLE On-Demand, Download
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This CLE course will show litigators new strategies and techniques to prepare witnesses to testify with credibility and power, even when the facts aren't ideal and the cross-examination is fierce. Read More

Pretrial Discovery: Defending and Opposing False Testimony, Errata Sheets, Sham Affidavits...
Tactical Considerations When Confronting and Correcting Untrue Statements
September 10, 2020 CLE CLE On-Demand, Download
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This CLE course will guide counsel in confronting false statements in errata sheets and sham affidavits in which the deponent rewrites, retracts, and reverses material and substantive portions of prior sworn testimony. The webinar will also consider the conflicting ethical duties that arise when cli... Read More

Preparing Witnesses for Deposition: Overcoming Challenges With 30(b)(6) Representatives an...
Navigating Current Restrictions on Defending Counsel, Complying With Ethica...
March 31, 2020 CLE CLE On-Demand, Download
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This CLE course will focus on the critical importance of preparing the fact, expert, and Rule 30(b)(6) witness for deposition given the current restrictions on what defending counsel can do at the deposition to protect the witness. Read More

Deposing Rule 30(b)(6) Corporate Witnesses
Preparing the Deposition Notice, Questioning the Corporate Representative,...
December 13, 2016 CLE CLE On-Demand, Download
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This CLE course will prepare business litigators to depose corporate representatives in accordance with Rule 30(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The webinar will discuss best practices for meeting the 30(b)(6) notice requirements, effectively questioning the corporate representative, d... Read More