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Goal: Takes participants beyond the basic
procedures involved in routine deposition practice and arms them with the skills
and confidence to tackle sophisticated problems encountered in today’s complex
litigation.
Length: 2 ½ days
Skill Development
- Expand strategies for dealing with obstreperous or
obstructionist opposing counsel
- Protect and depose experts and senior executives
- Depose experts to determine whether the Daubert criteria for
admissibility of opinions has been satisfied
Program Coverage
- Developing advanced skills for obtaining new information
from recalcitrant and trial savvy witnesses
- Using oral depositions to introduce settlements, present
persuasive counter-theories, introduce the witness to the concept of cross
examination, and to test one’s own factual theories
- Refining techniques applied to interrogating experts
- Determining the extent to which their work has been subject
to peer review
- Finding the extent to which their work is testable and
replicable
- Identifying if their work has a known or knowable error rate
- Uncovering if expert’s work is generally accepted in the
relevant scientific community
Techniques
- Lecture
- Demonstrations
- Group exercises
- Question and Answer Session
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