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Episode 150 -The Role of Lawyer-Deponent Proximity, and Signifiers of Authority, in Deponent Cooperation Or Resistance
Episode 150
In this episode, Jim Garrity applies lessons from a well-known study - on the factors that influence people to cooperate with or resist perceived aut…
1 year, 1 month ago
Episode 149 - "Argumentative" Examinations: Speech Masquerading As Questions
Episode 149
In this episode, Jim Garrity talks about a tactic of some examining lawyers that should, but often doesn’t, draw objections that their questions are …
1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 148 - Revisiting the Problem of Examiners Who Interrupt Your Deponents' Answers
Episode 148
Today Jim Garrity revisits the headaches caused by examining lawyers who frequently interrupt your deponents' answers. To combat this problem, Garrit…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 147 - Going Off the Record While The Deponent Reads Documents? Here’s Why You Shouldn’t.
Episode 147
Some examiners will mark a voluminous document as an exhibit and then declare that "we'll go off the record while the deponent reads it." But "going…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 146 - Thorny Hedges: Linguistic Qualifiers (I Think, I Feel, I Believe) That Weaken Testimony
Episode 146
In this episode, Jim talks about the habit of some deponents of qualifying their answers by using words like think, feel, believe, and presume. These…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 145 - A Catchall Objection for Unusual Deposition Situations
Episode 145
Have you ever been in a deposition and noticed something improper and prejudicial, but couldn't think of a precise objection to make? There might not…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 144 - Narrative Objections Aren’t Necessarily “Speaking Objections” or Coaching
Episode 144
Today Jim Garrity tackles the topic of narrative objections, which are objections that go beyond a simple "Form!" or "Objection!" and provide a conci…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 143 - Depo Case Digest for the week of July 29, 2024
Episode 143
Today's roundup of new deposition-related cases focuses on four rulings. One offers a great strategy to exclude hostile deponents' deposition testim…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 142 - Deposition Protocol Stipulations
Episode 143
In this episode, Jim Garrity discusses deposition protocol stipulations, which are agreements between the parties that establish the framework for no…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 141 - Depo Case Digest for the Week of July 5, 2024
Episode 141
Our depo case digest episodes present a fast roundup of new deposition-related rulings nationwide. Today: (1) Two new rulings on relevance as a basis…
1 year, 9 months ago