Session 1:

Developing a Winning Strategy (Jan 2020)

Discuss the fail-safe tricks to ensure you have a winning strategy at depositions.

Originally presented at: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy

Shane Read, U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas - Dallas, TX

Session 2:

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 at: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy

Elizabeth M. Fraley, Baylor Law School - Waco, TX

Session 3:

Discussion Group (Jan 2020)

Originally presented at: 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

Session 4:

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 at: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy

Manpreet Kaur Singh, Fanaff, Hoagland, and Gonzales - Houston, TX

Session 5:

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 at: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy

Frank L. Branson, The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson, P.C. - Dallas, TX

Session 6:

Workshop: An Inside Look at How Great Lawyers Win at Deposition (Jan 2020)

Originally presented at: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy

Shane Read, U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas - Dallas, TX

Session 7:

Depositions in Business Litigation (Jan 2020)

Discuss strategies for securing the testimony you need in complex business cases.

Originally presented at: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy

Karen C. Burgess, Burgess Law PC - Austin, TX

Session 8:

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 at: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy

Quentin Brogdon, Crain Lewis Brogdon, LLP - Dallas, TX

Session 9:

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 at: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy

Jim M. Perdue Jr., Perdue & Kidd - Houston, TX

Session 10:

Discussion Group (Jan 2020)

Originally presented at: 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

Session 11:

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 at: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy

Paul N. Gold, Aversano & Gold - Houston, TX

Session 12:

Deposition Lessons Learned the Hard Way (Jan 2020)

Learn how depositions can make or break your case.

Originally presented at: Nov 2019 Winning at Deposition: Skills and Strategy

Dicky Grigg, Spivey & Grigg L.L.P. - Austin, TX