Adverse Witness Depositions: Advanced Techniques in Exhaustion, Boxing-In, and Summarizing
Recording of a 90-minute CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will cover advanced deposition techniques in litigation. The panel will discuss strategies for getting the most out of depositions, including exhaustion, boxing-in, and summarization techniques for ordinary, hostile, or evasive witnesses.
Outline
- Introduction
- Exhaustion
- Restating/summarizing
- Boxing-in
- Structuring depositions for difficult and evasive witnesses
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- How exhausting the subject prevents surprises at trial and aids impeachment
- Using these techniques with the evasive witness
- The art of boxing in the evasive or hostile witness
- The "summarizing" strategy that can prevent witnesses from changing positions later in the case
Faculty
Lynne Bernabei
Partner
Bernabei & Kabat
Ms. Bernabei has been litigating employment discrimination, civil rights, and whistleblower cases for over thirty... | Read More
Ms. Bernabei has been litigating employment discrimination, civil rights, and whistleblower cases for over thirty years. She is a founding partner of Bernabei & Kabat, PLLC, where she handles claims of civil rights violations, and discrimination cases across the country. Although the practice focuses on cases in state and federal court in the Mid-Atlantic region, she has also litigated cases in New York, California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and Arizona.
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Anthony L. Cochran
Partner
Smith Gambrell & Russell
Mr. Cochran represents individuals and businesses in a wide variety of matters. He has tried jury trials, bench trials,... | Read More
Mr. Cochran represents individuals and businesses in a wide variety of matters. He has tried jury trials, bench trials, administrative and regulatory hearings, and medical peer review hearings. He has appeared on many panels and spoken at seminars on a variety of topics, including the application of the Daubert rule and a host of topics related to white-collar criminal law and investigations.
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Michael R. Gordon
Founder and Managing Partner
GordonLaw
Mr. Gordon has been representing businesses and individuals in all aspects of dispute avoidance and resolution since... | Read More
Mr. Gordon has been representing businesses and individuals in all aspects of dispute avoidance and resolution since 1989. Some examples of the matters Mr. Gordon has handled include acting as lead litigation counsel for a major foreign bank sued for billions of dollars in connection with the bankruptcy of a large telecom company, successfully fending off a $100 million lender liability case against one of the five largest U.S. banks, and obtaining a $48 million judgment against a large California real estate developer. He is a frequent speaker and writer on a variety of topics related to litigation and is the former Co-Chair of the Commercial Disputes Practice Group at a global, AmLaw 100 law firm.
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