LAW 6566

Intensive Depositions

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

This course will  provide an intensive insight into practitioners' goals in taking depositions and in representing deponents and will provide a study into methods for achieving those goals.  It will include classroom discussion and demonstration and a practical opportunity for each student to take and to defend mock depositions.  We will explore the use of depositions at trial, which is a predicate to understanding depositions' goals; the central role of admissions from documentary and deposition discovery in the development of civil cases; and techniques for eliciting admissions (or, when representing a deponent, avoiding such admissions).  Techniques will also be explored for pure discovery, for trial preservation testimony, and for the avoidance of the development of evidence harmful to one's case.  

When Offered Spring.

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