Depositions in a Nutshell - Softcover

Moore, Albert J.; Binder, David A.; Bergman, Paul; Light, Jason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0314194894 ISBN 13: 9780314194893

Publisher: West Academic, 2010

Synopsis

This new Nutshell, which replaces Binder, Moore and Bergman's Deposition Questioning Strategies and Techniques (2001), provides comprehensive descriptions and concrete illustrations of effective strategies and techniques for taking and defending depositions. The book can serve as a text for a 2-4 unit stand-alone depositions course (either live client or simulated) or as a supplement to a civil pre-trial lawyering course. It 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. The book will be accompanied by a teacher's manual that describes how instructors might organize a depositions course, provides numerous classroom assignments and exercises and includes simulated case files.

Edition details

• Publisher: West Academic
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0314194894
• ISBN 13: 9780314194893
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277