Deposition Questioning Strategies and Techniques (American Casebook Series)

Deposition Questioning Strategies and Techniques (American Casebook Series) by Binder, David. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780314257185.

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 deponents version of significant events, and obtaining information from evasive deponents. Other chapters include topics such as responding to inconsistent or implausible testimony, overcoming opposing counsels objections and obstructionist tactics, and preparing a client to be deposed.