Getting deposed? Conducting a deposition? Here’s the book you need to take the mystery out of the deposition process and answer questions with confidence. You’ll even learn the three ‘golden rules’ for answering questions and the trick questions lawyers often use to influence testimony.
A perfect book for law students, lawyers, legal assistants, witnesses, expert witnesses, and anyone who wants to represent themselves in court, Nolo’s Deposition Handbook provides all the information you need to sail through the deposition process with confidence. This edition contains updated statutes, cases, and rules — plus, new material on ‘electronic discovery’ which applies to information stored in computers, including records and emails.
Table of Content
Introduction: Your Deposition Companion
Part One: You Are a Deponent
1. An Overview of Deposition Procedures
2. Using Depositions in a Lawsuit
3. Preparing to Give Deposition Testimony
4. Responding to Questions
5. Beginning a Deposition: “The Usual Admonitions”
6. Background Questions
7. Questions You Can Refuse to Answer
8. Expert Witness Deponents
Part Two: Taking and Defending Depositions
9. The Lay of the Discovery Landscape
10. Defending a Deposition
11. Taking a Deposition: Deposing a Hostile Witness
12. Taking a Deposition: Responding to a Defending Attorney’s Roadblocks
13. Taking a Deposition: Deposing a Friendly Witness
14. Visually Recorded Depositions
Glossary
Appendix A: Excerpts From the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP)
Appendix B: State Discovery and Deposition Rules
Appendix C: Sample Forms
Index
About the author
Albert Moore, a member of the California State Bar since 1978, is a law professor at the UCLA School of Law and the co-author of Trial Advocacy: Inferences, Arguments and Trial Techniques (West Publishing).
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