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PBI - Anatomy of a Superstar Deposition
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Join one of the country’s leading teachers of deposition cross-examination skills for a fun and supremely practical CLE. Analyze the canon of deposition-taking techniques: •Encouraging a damaging admission •Encouraging a vulnerable denial •When to save impeachment for trial surprise •When to use leading vs. non-leading questions •When to “argue” with the resistant witness •Combating obstructionism

3/25/2015
When: 3/25/2015
8:30 AM
Where: YCBA - CLE Room
137 E. Market St.
York, Pennsylvania  17401
United States
Presenter: PBI
Contact: Cheryl Kauffman
cheryl.kauffman@yorkbar.com
717-854-8755x203

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Join one of the country’s leading teachers of deposition cross-examination skills for a fun and supremely practical CLE 


Analyze the canon of deposition-taking techniques
  • Encouraging a damaging admission
  • Encouraging a vulnerable denial
  • When to save impeachment for trial surprise
  • When to use leading vs. non-leading questions
  • When to “argue” with the resistant witness
  • Combating obstructionism
Through highly entertaining use of video clips, compare your critical deposition-taking skills with those of brilliant David Boies ...
Who crossed swords with brilliant Bill Gates in an intensely contentious three-day deposition in one of the most high-profile civil cases in the history of the country. 
Learn how to take far better adverse “fact” witness depositions
  • Evidentiary depositions vs. discovery depositions
  • Firewalling adverse deponent’s answer
  • Combating question-dodging
  • Using rhetoric to intensify arguments
  • Attacking deponent’s deceitful “I don’t remember”