Attacking the Liar's Best Lies: “I Don't Remember” and “I Do Remember”

MCLE Credits: 4.0
Ethics Credits Included: 0.0

Wednesday, September 9, 10:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET Live Webcast Live Telephone
MCLE Credit:	4.0 (Ethics: 0.0)
Live-Interactive Credit:	4.0 (all dates, all formats)
Registration Fee:	$229

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Why Attend?

Presented by Robert Musante—a nationally recognized teacher of deposition skills
Learn the very best lines of attack against memory claims
Enjoy an entertaining and informative exploration of this important topic

Whether at trial or in deposition, the “yes-no” question quite frequently constitutes a Scylla & Charybdis problem for the adverse witness: the “yes” constituting a damaging-to-witness admission, and the “no” creating a risk of the witness being impeached … maybe a BIG risk of a BIG impeachment. Thus, a willing-to-lie witness (and there are so many!!), perhaps coached by an unethical attorney (and there are so many!!), tries to avoid Scylla & Charybdis by claiming “I don’t remember X." As all experienced litigators well know, and new litigators soon discover, this claim can be tough to successfully attack … tough to prove is a LIE. Learn the very best lines of attack against memory claims.

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COURSE SCHEDULE (September 9) (Eastern Time)

10:00	Session 1 Litigation 101: the best case theory The Grand Unified Theory of deposition cross-examination When to save impeachment for surprise at trial Scylla & Charybdis Make witness pick a chair: “Yes,” “No,” or “Maybe” The all-time, every-case, toughest answers to successfully attack 3 purposes for witness's deceitful “I don’t remember X” Lawyer coaching the witness to lie: "I don’t remember X" Why depose? How depose? Word-hawking tests
12:00	Lunch Break
12:30	Session 2 Rosetta Stone Qs: dramatically strengthen witness’s relationship to “X” Cross-examiner’s cardinal blunder re attacking liar's "I don’t remember X" Rosetta Stone Qs: dramatically define the purported limits of witness's memory re “X” Attacking the "I don’t remember X" that seeks to reserve a bad surprise for trial: enumerate make a “speech” loop memory limits offer witness the "get-outta-depo card” Attacking witness's "I do remember" that disfavors cross-examiner Rosetta Stone Qs: 12 lines of attack to weaken witness's relationship to “X" "Keeping score" of witness's claims re the can-remembers and the can’t-remembers
2:30	Adjourn

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Robert Musante / Alamo, CA

Robert Musante is the country’s foremost teacher of deposition cross-examination. He has taught the logic essential to taking great adverse depositions—of fact witnesses and experts—to more than 50,000 litigators in 44 states. He has made in-house presentations to the attorneys-general of 11 states and to the partners and associates of 100+ litigation law firms.