Nolo's Deposition Handbook (eBook)

The Essential Guide for Anyone Facing or Conducting a Deposition

Paul Bergman, Albert Moore (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018 | 7., Seventh Edition
440 Seiten
Nolo (Verlag)
978-1-4133-2563-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This is a complete guide for anyone that must prepare to take, defend or give deposition testimony. This guide takes you from the basics, like preparing a deposition notice to specifics, such as how to depose a hostile witness. It’s a must read for anyone that will take part in a deposition.

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Getting deposed? Conducting a deposition? Here's the book you need to take the mystery out of the deposition process and answer questions with confidence. You'll even learn the three "golden rules" for answering questions and the trick questions lawyers often use to influence testimony.



A perfect book for law students, lawyers, legal assistants, witnesses, expert witnesses, and anyone who wants to represent themselves in court, Nolo's Deposition Handbook provides all the information you need to sail through the deposition process with confidence. This edition contains updated statutes, cases, and rules -- plus, new material on "electronic discovery" which applies to information stored in computers, including records and emails.

Inhalt

Introduction: Your Deposition Companion

Part One: You Are a Deponent

1. An Overview of Deposition Procedures

2. Using Depositions in a Lawsuit

3. Preparing to Give Deposition Testimony

4. Responding to Questions

5. Beginning a Deposition: “The Usual Admonitions”

6. Background Questions

7. Questions You Can Refuse to Answer

8. Expert Witness Deponents

Part Two: Taking and Defending Depositions

9. The Lay of the Discovery Landscape

10. Defending a Deposition

11. Taking a Deposition: Deposing a Hostile Witness

12. Taking a Deposition: Responding to a Defending Attorney’s Roadblocks

13. Taking a Deposition: Deposing a Friendly Witness

14. Visually Recorded Depositions

Glossary

Appendix A: Excerpts From the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP)

Appendix B: State Discovery and Deposition Rules

Appendix C: Sample Forms

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.8.2018
• Zusatzinfo: charts, tables, graphs, forms
• Verlagsort: Berkeley
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• ISBN-10: 1-4133-2563-7 / 1413325637
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4133-2563-8 / 9781413325638