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Episode 11 - Physical Demonstrations and Re-enactments in Depositions
Episode 11
Many of your lawsuits involve events that can be physically demonstrated or re-enacted. Indeed, your success in pursuing your claims or defenses may …
5 years, 5 months ago
Episode 10 - Errata Sheet Tips and Traps
Episode 10
Errata sheets - the blank pages that come with a draft transcript for your deponents to use in correcting or changing testimony - serve an important …
5 years, 5 months ago
Episode 9 - Dealing with Cross Beyond the Scope in Depositions
Episode 9
You finished your examination of a witness whose deposition you noticed, and the opposing lawyer - who did not cross-notice the deposition - has la…
5 years, 5 months ago
Episode 8 - Taking a Portable Printer to Depositions
Episode 8
You and your team take laptops to every deposition. But you never take a printer. Why? Portable printers are lightweight, modestly priced, and worth …
5 years, 5 months ago
Episode 7 - Audiotaping your Depositions
Episode 7
Are you independently audiotaping all your depositions? (We know you're not.) But why aren't you? Listen as Jim Garrity explains why you should routi…
5 years, 5 months ago
Episode 6 - Using FRE 612 to Obtain Documents Used by Deponents to Refresh Recollections
Episode 6
The documents reviewed by deponents in order to refresh their recollections, before their upcoming testimony, can be of critical value. What did they…
5 years, 5 months ago
Episode 5 - "Legal Contention" Questions in Depositions
Episode 5
"Legal contention" questions have been widely ruled objectionable in depositions. But what are they? What should you be listening for in order to spo…
5 years, 5 months ago
Episode 4 - What is the "Right" Style for Deposing Witnesses?
Episode 4
What's the "right" style for deposing witnesses? Full-on confrontation, using your best evidence to attack the witness's views? Or something more sub…
5 years, 5 months ago
Episode 3 - "I Demand A Yes or No Answer"
Episode 3
In this episode, we answer the question, "Can a lawyer demand the deponent limit his or her answers to 'yes' or 'no'? Or can the witness go beyond a …
5 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2, Part 2 - Tools for Capturing Testimony
Episode 2
In this second segment of Episode 2, we discuss different tools for capturing sworn testimony, including affidavits. Part I focused on depositions an…
5 years, 5 months ago