Provides descriptions and illustrations of effective strategies
and techniques for taking and defending depositions. Designed to serve
as a text for a 2-4 unit stand-alone depositions course or as a
supplement to a civil pre-trial lawyering course. Devotes separate
chapters to such fundamental skills as obtaining helpful answers to
critical questions, undercutting harmful testimony, obtaining a
deponent's version of significant events, and obtaining information from
evasive deponents. Other chapters include topics such as responding to
inconsistent or implausible testimony, overcoming opposing counsel's
objections and obstructionist tactics, and preparing a client to be
deposed.