Stuart M. Israel is a lawyer, sometime mediator, arbitrator, and law teacher, and a Fellow of The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He is the author of Taking and Defending Depositions-Second Edition (American Law Institute CLE 2017) and the co-author of Opinions: Essays on Lawyering, Litigation and Arbitration, the Placebo Effect, Chutzpah, and Related Matters (Amazon Createspace 2016) and Effective Discovery (National Institute of Trial Advocacy 2017).