Great adverse depositions RobeRt Musan t e:

Institute
of
Continuing Legal Education
in
Georgia
thursday • October 16, 2014 NATIONAL SPEAKER SERIES
R o b er t Musa n t e:
Great Adve rse
de positions
6 CLE Hours including • 6 Trial Practice Hours
Robert Musante is the nation’s foremost teacher of deposition cross-examination. (Check the evals!) He has taught the
logic essential to taking great adverse depositions – of fact witnesses and experts – to more than 40,000 litigators in 42
states. He has made in-house presentations to the attorneys-general of 11 states and to the partners and associates of
80+ litigation law firms.
If done right, the cross-examination of an adverse witness at deposition is an intellectually rigorous discipline…
requiring the diligent and skillful application of the logical rules that best exploit case theory opportunities and best
attack case theory problems.
All litigators should have studied the discipline’s dozens of rules while still in law school, and, later on, should have observed their law
firms’ experienced litigators effectively employing those rules in every adverse deposition. Yet, sadly, the vast majority of litigators practice
for an entire career without ever truly understanding this crucial syllogism:
Trial is argument.
Deposition is trial.
Thus, deposition is argument.
Co-sponsored by:
Through the use of highly-entertaining video clips of many high-profile crossexaminations, our seminars analyze and illustrate how to take great! adverse
depositions…every time out.
General Practice
and Trial Law Section,
State Bar of Georgia
M o r e i n f o at k i l l e r d e p ot.co m
Seminar will be held:
State Bar of Georgia Headquarters
104 Marietta Street NW • Atlanta, Georgia
For Directions Please Visit http://www.gabar.org/
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Embassy Suites phone: 1-800-Hilton • The Glenn phone: 404-521-2250
Hilton Garden Inn phone: 404-577-2001 • The Omni phone: 404-818-4334
Ask for the State Bar of Georgia’s negotiated corporate rate.
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AGENDA
The registration fee for all seminars held at the State Bar of Georgia has
been reduced by ICLE in recognition of the Bar’s service to Georgia attorneys.
11:15 Break
7:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:15
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• Deposition Cross-Examination: An Intellectually Rigorous Discipline
• Battleships: The Checklist of Recurring Deposition Questions Re Recurring Issues
• Four Nearly Everybody-Agrees Deposition
Cross-Examination Rules
• Grand Unified Theory Of Civil Litigation
• Rationale Re Saving Attacks for Surprise at Trial
• The Cut-to-the-Chase, Can’t-Be-Beat Argument vs.
The Stupidest Orthodoxy
• Whack! Defined & Demonstrated
• Seven Advantages: Deposition Cross-Examiner
vs. Trial Cross-Examiner
• A Famous Cross-Examination Analyzed
• Introduction of the Magnificent Seven
• When to Ask Leading Questions in Deposition
12:30 Lunch (Included in Registration Fee)
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9.45 Break
Universal Questions
A Third Famous Cross-Examination Analyzed
Enumeration
Looping
Identifying a Mediocre Deposition in Only 60 Seconds
Making the Implied/Hidden Express:
Using Lexicography
Making the Implied/Hidden Express: Using Logic
The Transfer of Information Rule and the Most Common Dumb Deposition Question
Crap Defined
Attacking Narrow Questions & Question-Dodging with HS English Skills
Attacking 2 Answers in 1 Question
Attacking The Needle & The Haystack Answer
2:15 Break
2:30 • More Re “Wisdom” of Saving Attacks for
Surprise at Trial
• The Whole Nine Yards Question
• Sixteen Potential Escapes from Cross-Examiner’s Deception Argument
• Conducting Interviews vs. Taking Great
Adverse Depositions
• Coda
10:00 • Exceptions to the Leading Question Rule
• When the Truth is Not Nearly Enough
• Bluffing Deponent into an Admission
• Deponent’s Escapes from Answers to Leading Questions
• Using Rhetoric To Intensify Arguments
• A Second Famous Cross-Examination Analyzed
• Reasoning Questions
• Firewalling Introduced
• Interrogatory-Like Questions
3:30 Adjourn
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