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Answer Bar: Taking Your Car Crash Case to Trial
Contains material from Sep 2017
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Session 2: Storytelling and Themes - Listen to an experienced practitioner share his stories and experiences on voir dire, trial themes, and opening and closing arguments.
Session 3: A View from the Bench - Hear guidance on how to handle jury trials, with emphasis on what needs to be done to ensure the jury is on your side.
Session 4: Developing a Winning Deposition Strategy - Learn the fail-safe tricks to ensure you have a winning strategy at depositions.
Session 5: Deposition Lessons Learned the Hard Way - Learn how depositions can make or break your case.
Session 6: Interactive Demonstration: Deposition How-To's - Identify problems, ask questions, and discuss the tricks and tips of the day!
Session 7: Nuts and Bolts When Deposing on Behalf of the Plaintiff - When representing the Plaintiff: essential steps for a successful deposition of defendant’s expert, a witness or the defendant.
Session 8: Overcoming the Problem Witness - Acquire the techniques to use against problem witnesses, including those who feign ignorance, are evasive, and are combative.
Session 9: Beating the Expert - Find out how to take an expert’s deposition—how to avoid being intimidated and how to set realistic, attainable goals when you depose the "expert."
Session 10: Developing Your Trial Cross Through the Adverse Deposition - Discover effective techniques for getting the answers you need from an adverse witness.
Session 11: Witness Preparation - Witnesses win cases—and lose them. Learn how to keep your witness from giving it all up in a deposition and how to use the deposition to help prepare your witness to be a winner at trial.
Session 12: Dealing with Combative and Unscrupulous Lawyers - How to avoid intimidation and manage the disruptive, disreputable, and overly zealous lawyer in an ethical, civil, and professional manner.
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Justin B. Demerath, Danny R. Phillips
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Session 1
—31 mins
Accident Reconstruction Deconstructed (Sep 2017)
Technology and resources available today can allow post-accident physical evidence to resolve many fact disputes about how an incident happened, who was at fault, and reveal potential gross negligence facts. Learn what top experts can do for the right case, what the law allows you to do with this information, and what reconstruction resources are available for more modest value cases.
Originally presented: Aug 2017 The Car Crash Seminar
Justin B. Demerath,
O'Hanlon, Demerath & Castillo, PC - Austin, TX
Danny R. Phillips,
Axiom Reconstruction, Inc. - Lucas, TX
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Guy D. Choate
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Session 2
—35 mins
Storytelling and Themes (Sep 2017)
Listen to an experienced practitioner share his stories and experiences on voir dire, trial themes, and opening and closing arguments.
Originally presented: Aug 2017 The Car Crash Seminar
Guy D. Choate,
Webb, Stokes & Sparks, L.L.P. - San Angelo, TX
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Hon. Eric Montgomery Shepperd
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Session 3
—37 mins
A View from the Bench (Sep 2017)
Hear guidance on how to handle jury trials, with emphasis on what needs to be done to ensure the jury is on your side.
Originally presented: Aug 2017 The Car Crash Seminar
Hon. Eric Montgomery Shepperd,
Travis County Court at Law No. 2 - Austin, TX
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Shane Read
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Session 4
—48 mins
Developing a Winning Strategy (Sep 2017)
Learn the fail-safe tricks to ensure you have a winning strategy at depositions.
Originally presented: Aug 2017 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Shane Read,
U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas - Dallas, TX
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Darrell L. Barger
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Session 5
—26 mins
Deposition Lessons Learned the Hard Way (Sep 2017)
Learn how depositions can make or break your case.
Originally presented: Aug 2017 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Darrell L. Barger,
Hartline Dacus Barger Dreyer, L.L.P. - Houston, TX
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Paul N. Gold, Shane Read
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Session 6
—55 mins
Interactive Demonstration: Deposition How-To's (Sep 2017)
Identify problems, ask questions, and discuss the tricks and tips of the day!
Originally presented: Aug 2017 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Paul N. Gold,
Aversano & Gold - Houston, TX
Shane Read,
U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas - Dallas, TX
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Linda Turley
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Session 7
—31 mins
Nuts and Bolts When Deposing on Behalf of the Plaintiff (Sep 2017)
When representing the Plaintiff: essential steps for a successful deposition of defendant’s expert, a witness or the defendant.
Originally presented: Aug 2017 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Linda Turley,
Turley Law Firm - Dallas, TX
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Frank L. Branson
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Session 8
—34 mins
Overcoming the Problem Witness (Sep 2017)
Acquire the techniques to use against problem witnesses, including those who feign ignorance, are evasive, and are combative.
Originally presented: Aug 2017 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Frank L. Branson,
The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson, P.C. - Dallas, TX
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Quentin Brogdon
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Session 9
—43 mins
Beating the Expert (Sep 2017)
Find out how to take an expert’s deposition—how to avoid being intimidated and how to set realistic, attainable goals when you depose the "expert."
Originally presented: Aug 2017 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Quentin Brogdon,
Crain Lewis Brogdon, LLP - Dallas, TX
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Dawn Estes
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Session 10
—33 mins
Developing Your Trial Cross Through the Adverse Deposition (Sep 2017)
Discover effective techniques for getting the answers you need from an adverse witness.
Originally presented: Aug 2017 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Dawn Estes,
Estes Thorne & Carr, PLLC - Dallas, TX
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Robert C. Walters
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Session 11
—27 mins
Witness Preparation (Sep 2017)
Witnesses win cases—and lose them. Learn how to keep your witness from giving it all up in a deposition and how to use the deposition to help prepare your witness to be a winner at trial.
Originally presented: Aug 2017 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Robert C. Walters,
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP - Dallas, TX
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Michael L. Slack
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Session 12
—29 mins
Dealing with Combative and Unscrupulous Lawyers (Sep 2017)
How to avoid intimidation and manage the disruptive, disreputable, and overly zealous lawyer in an ethical, civil, and professional manner.
Originally presented: Aug 2017 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Michael L. Slack,
Slack & Davis, L.L.P. - Austin, TX