Effective Depositions. Second Edition

Index

• Preliminary Sections
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. The Role and Importance of Depositions
• Chapter 2. Discovery Methods, Discovery Planning, and Reasons to Take (or Not to Take) a Deposition
• Chapter 3. Securing the Attendance of the Witness
• Chapter 4. Preparing to Take or Defend a Deposition
• Chapter 5. Meeting the Witness
• Chapter 6. Establishing and Preserving the Attorney-Client and Work-Product Privileges
• Chapter 7. Procedural Preparation of the Witness
• Chapter 8. Substantive Preparation of the Witness: Reconstructing Reality
• Chapter 9. Discoverability of Documents Used to Refresh the Recollection of a Witness: Federal Rule of Evidence
• Chapter 10. Special Witness Preparation Situations
• Chapter 11. Taking the Deposition
• Chapter 12. Using Documents at a Deposition
• Chapter 13. Laying Foundations for Documents at a Deposition
• Chapter 14. Defending the Deposition
• Chapter 15. Problem Counsel, Problem Witnesses
• Chapter 16. Issues for Women at Depositions
• Chapter 17. The Video Evolution: Pretrial and Trial Considerations
• Chapter 18. The Realtime Advantage: Using Realtime Transcription for More Effective Depositions
• Chapter 19. Expert Witness Depositions
• Chapter 20. Taking and Defending the Deposition of the Class Representative
• Chapter 21. Deposition Perjury by Your Witness
• Chapter 22. What to Do When the Fifth Amendment Pays Civil Litigation a Visit
• Chapter 23. The End of the Deposition
• Chapter 24. Managing, Summarizing, Indexing, and Searching Depositions: The Role of Paralegals and Computer Software
• Chapter 25. Using Depositions at Trial
• List of Appendixes
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2-A
• Appendix 2-B
• Appendix 3
• Appendix 4
• Appendix 5
• Appendix 6
• Appendix 7
• Appendix 8
• Appendix 9
• Appendix 10-A
• Appendix 10-B
• Appendix 11
• Table of Cases
• Index
• About the Principal Author and Editor
• About the Contributors