Friday, June 7, 2013
Registration (Continental breakfast available)
8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session
8:30 am – 12:15 pm
Addressing Bias in Depositions
• How bias affects your deposition strategy
• Using the deposition to overcome bias
Developing a Discovery Plan
• Who, what, when, where, and why to depose
• The written plan
• Sequencing your discovery
• Identifying your weakness
Ten Rules for Effective Depositions
• Controlling the environment of the depositions
• Developing goals
• Obtaining material for cross
Adverse Lay Witness Depositions: Techniques of Exhaustion, Boxing-In, Summarization
• Making the witness tell you everything he or she knows
• Summarizing techniques to keep the witness from changing his or her testimony
• Cementing the witness’ testimony
• Miller Mousetrap
Workshop Introductions
Lunch (on your own)
12:15 – 1:15 pm
Afternoon Session
1:15 – 6:00 pm
Organizing for Expert Depositions and Planning Tactics
• Exploration of Expert Witness Opinions
• Using documents and learned treatises
• Exploiting the opponent’s weaknesses
Workshop on Taking Depositions: Bias, Sequencing, Exhaustion,
Boxing-In, Summarization
Networking Reception
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Sponsored by Fuston, Petway & French, LLP and Spurling Law Firm, LLC
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Morning Session (Continental breakfast available)
8:00 – 12:00 pm
Developing Rules and Standards
Structuring the Deposition of a Difficult Witness
• How to identify the difficult witness
• How to control the difficult witness
• The one fact, one question approach
• How to deal with nonresponsive answers
General Considerations for Witness Deposition Preparation
• Special considerations for client preparation
"Death Star" Depositions: The 30(b)(2) Deposition
• Finding All the Documents
• Using a 30(b)(2) Deposition to Discover Case Dispositive Information
• Depositions of Corporate Representatives: 30(b)(6) Deposition
• Crafting the Notice for your Case; for Contention Depositions Related to Defenses;
Demonstration of Questions to Establish the Witness Speaks for the Corporation;
Relationship between Rules 30(b)(6) and 32
• Setting the Course for Trial and Making the Plaintiff’s Case: The 30(b)(6) Deposition Strategy,
Goals, and Techniques to Nail the Defendant
• Faculty Demonstrations
• Exhaustion
• Rules and Standards
Lunch (on your own)
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Afternoon Session
12:45 – 6:00 pm
Dealing with the Difficult Situation and Attorney (ethics)
• Redwood v. Dobson
• Handling objections
• Instructions not to answer
• Calling the judge
Workshop on Deposing the Lay Witness
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Morning Session (Continental breakfast available)
8:00 am - 1:30 pm
Deposing the Defense Medical Examiner
• Gaining concessions
• Developing cross material
• Obtaining information for use by your expert
• Discovery of economic interest
Later Use of Depositions at Settlement and Trial Workshop on Deposing Expert Witnesses (Lunch provided)
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CLE Information
Earn approximately 22* CLE and NCA credits, including 1 hour of ethics, to be applied to your participation in the NCA's Achievement Recognition Program. For more general CLE information consult the CLE coordinator at 800.622.1791, ext. 8612.
* Number of credits may vary depending on calculation method used by individual state accreditation agencies. AAJ is a State Bar of California MCLE-approved provider.
Professional Recognition Programs
Click here to learn more about AAJ's Professional Recognition Programs, Achievement Recognition Program (ARP) and Advanced Studies in Trial Advocacy (ASTA), or call 800.622.1791 or 202.965.3500, ext. 8612.
The Achievement Recognition Program (ARP) provides Advocate, Fellow, and Diplomate recognition to AAJ members. To gain ARP credits, submit a certificate of attendance for every seminar, college, and convention you attend.
