Workshop Description: Most new lawyers graduate from law school unprepared to depose witnesses. To gain this skill, new lawyers end up watching depositions for a year or acquire their skills by hit-and-miss experiences. Both methods leave you costing the firm and clients.
Just three days invested in this workshop will help you acquire the skill set that normally takes at least a year of full-time practice to develop. You will be grounded in all the practical skills necessary to begin effectively deposing witnesses tomorrow.
You will understand the law, skill, and art concerning the client, the pretrial process, and real-world discovery. You receive a deposition booklet to guide you through future depositions and a blueprint for success in showcasing these skills in your firms environment.
Sample Agenda:
1. A Problem, a Process and a Prize: Doing the Necessary
2. Case Analysis, Preparation and Investigation
3. Questioning Techniques
4. Hands-on exercises
a. Practice What We Learned Case Analysis for the Plaintiff
b. Practice What We Learned Case Analysis for the Respondent
c. Practice What We Learned Questioning Techniques
5. Informal Discovery
6. Witness Preparation
7. Overview of the Deposition Process
8. Depositions - Admonitions
a. Practice What We Learned Admonitions
9. Depositions - Commitments & Fact Investigation
10. Depositions Theory Testing
a. Practice What We Learned Commitments & Fact Investigation
11. Combining Admonitions, Commitments and Theory Testing
12. Defending the Deposition
13. The 30(b) (6) Witness
14. Ethics in Pretrial Practice
