Great Adverse Depositions—Principles and Principal Techniques

High-quality adverse depositions require the conscious and conscientious application of an integrated set of logical cross-examination rules, THE very set of rules your law schools and law firms should have taught you … but never, ever did! This seminar wastes no time on entry-level wisdom, code chatter, idiosyncratic war stories, or tired maxims. Instead, using video clips from high-profile cross-examinations, it brilliantly teaches how to take adverse depositions as never before … the right way: as an intellectually rigorous discipline.

 

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COURSE SCHEDULE (March 25) (Eastern Time)

10:00	Session 1 Battleships Questions and getting adverse deponent’s story Four nearly-everybody-agrees deposition cross-examination rules Mediocre adverse depositions and the vast majority of litigators The Grand Unified Theory of deposition cross-examination The can't-be-beat reason to abandon the stupidest deposition orthodoxy Whack defined and demonstrated in a high-profile trial cross-examination Seven advantages: deposition cross-examiner vs. trial cross-examiner The most important teachable aspect of civil litigation When to ask leading questions in deposition ... and at trial Getting adverse deponent to “Yes!” on every important issue
12:00	Lunch Break
12:30	Session 2 When the truth is not nearly enough Bluffing adverse deponent into an admission Using rhetoric to intensify argument Every deposition cross-examiner's chief flaw Analysis of a superstar litigator's big-time deposition Lead! Rhetoricate! and Reason! Interrogatory-like questions Using universal and nail-down terms Enumeration, looping, and giving deponent a chance to escape An amateur cross-examiner using rhetoric ... and doing it right! Identifying a mediocre deposition in only 60 seconds Conducting interviews vs. taking great adverse depositions Coda Q&A
2:30	Adjourn

• Q&A will be handled via chat room for Webcast attendees.
• Q&A will be handled via e-mail for telephone seminar attendees.

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. For more info, including 1,000s of rave reviews, visit robertmusante-depositions-cle-webinars.com.