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- Gain fail-safe tricks for a winning strategy at depositions
- Discover the secrets to successful witness preparation
- Acquire the skills to effectively cross-examine an adverse witness and deal with evasive and combative witnesses
- Learn how to beat the other side's expert witness and defend your own
- Understand the unique strategies for taking a deposition in business and a tort cases
- Master the art of taking the deposition of a corporate representative
- Obtain the essential steps of a successful deposition when representing your plaintiff
- Attendees of the live conference receive a complimentary copy of Winning at Deposition, the award-winning book by D. Shane Read.
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Session 1
—45 mins
Developing a Winning Strategy (Jan 2020)
Discuss the fail-safe tricks to ensure you have a winning strategy at depositions.
Originally presented: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Shane Read,
U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas - Dallas, TX
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Elizabeth M. Fraley
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Session 2
—26 mins
Developing Your Trial Cross Through the Adverse Deposition (Jan 2020)
Learn to take admission-seeking depositions of adverse witnesses so that they are effectively limited in their testimony at trial.
Originally presented: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Elizabeth M. Fraley,
Baylor Law School - Waco, TX
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Frank L. Branson, Elizabeth M. Fraley
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Session 3
—19 mins
Discussion Group (Jan 2020)
Originally presented: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Frank L. Branson,
The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson, P.C. - Dallas, TX
Elizabeth M. Fraley,
Baylor Law School - Waco, TX
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Manpreet Kaur Singh
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Session 4
—28 mins
Preparing Your Witness for Deposition (Jan 2020)
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: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Manpreet Kaur Singh,
Fanaff, Hoagland, and Gonzales - Houston, TX
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Frank L. Branson
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Session 5
—35 mins
Overcoming the Problem Witness (Jan 2020)
Acquire the techniques to use against problem witnesses, including those who feign ignorance, are evasive, and are combative.
Originally presented: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Frank L. Branson,
The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson, P.C. - Dallas, TX
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Shane Read
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Session 6
—54 mins
Workshop: An Inside Look at How Great Lawyers Win at Deposition (Jan 2020)
Originally presented: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Shane Read,
U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas - Dallas, TX
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Karen C. Burgess
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Session 7
—29 mins
Depositions in Business Litigation (Jan 2020)
Discuss strategies for securing the testimony you need in complex business cases.
Originally presented: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Karen C. Burgess,
Burgess Law PC - Austin, TX
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Quentin Brogdon
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Session 8
—42 mins
Beating the Expert (Jan 2020)
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: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Quentin Brogdon,
Crain Lewis Brogdon, LLP - Dallas, TX
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Jim M. Perdue Jr.
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Session 9
—36 mins
Taking Depositions in Tort Cases (Jan 2020)
From lay witnesses to experts, lock down the elements of liability and damages for both sides with a view of depositions as they relate to the courtroom.
Originally presented: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Jim M. Perdue Jr.,
Perdue & Kidd - Houston, TX
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Paul N. Gold, Dicky Grigg, Jim M. Perdue Jr.
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Session 10
—15 mins
Discussion Group (Jan 2020)
Originally presented: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Paul N. Gold,
Aversano & Gold - Houston, TX
Dicky Grigg,
Spivey & Grigg L.L.P. - Austin, TX
Jim M. Perdue Jr.,
Perdue & Kidd - Houston, TX
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Paul N. Gold
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Session 11
—38 mins
Taking the Deposition of a Corporate Representative (Jan 2020)
Explore using the organization representative deposition, one of the more effective discovery tools to use when seeking discovery from an organization. Learn the ins and outs of using FRCP 30b(6) and TRCP 199.2(b) to depose the organization (a party or non-party) through the organization-selected representative(s) on topics you delineate relevant to the claims and defenses in the lawsuit.
Originally presented: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Paul N. Gold,
Aversano & Gold - Houston, TX
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Dicky Grigg
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Session 12
—33 mins
Deposition Lessons Learned the Hard Way (Jan 2020)
Learn how depositions can make or break your case.
Originally presented: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy
Dicky Grigg,
Spivey & Grigg L.L.P. - Austin, TX