Deposition Objections
- Publisher:
- James Publishing
- Publication date:
- 2021-03-31
- Authors:
- Joseph A. Ranney
- ISBN:
- 978-1-58012-265-8
Description:
Here is a quick-draw armory of dozens of objections and tactics to help you protect your witness and your case, including: attorney-client privilege, attorney work-product, proprietary and confidential information, witness self-incrimination, family communications, communications with professionals, privacy, legal process privileges, relevance, vagueness, ambiguity, repetition, lack of foundation, legal conclusions, and more
Index
- Preliminary Sections
- Introduction
- Objecting to deposition notices and subpoenas
- Motions to quash or limit deposition subpoenas
- Preparing witnesses for deposition objections
- Attorney-client privilege
- Attorney work product privilege
- Proprietary and confidential information
- Witness self-incrimination
- Family communications privileges
- Privileges for communications with professionals
- Privacy privilege
- Legal process privileges: law enforcement records, deliberative process, settlement discussions
- Relevance: overbroad and burdensome questions
- Other objections: vagueness, ambiguity, repetition, lack of foundation, multiple questions, and continuing objections
- Legal conclusions
- Court rulings and supervision during a deposition
- Instructing the witness not to answer a question
- Coaching and communications with the witness during breaks
- Colloquies and stipulations among counsel
- Motions to strike and clarification of testimony
- Objections at expert witness depositions
- Objections to testimony of witnesses you do not represent
- Objections to videotape and remote depositions
- Objections at depositions of non-english speaking witnesses
- Objections to attendance of unauthorized persons
- Making and opposing motions to compel deposition testimony
- Reviewing and correcting the deposition transcript
- Appendix 1 where to find rules relating to depositions
- Index
- Table of authorities
- Table of cases