N.I.T.A. Deposition Seminar Funnel Technique
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From time to time I publish advice and "cheat sheets" for young lawyers who are just beginning practice. This last week-end, I once again had the privilege of teaching some of the brightest young lawyers in the country how to take a deposition.
I've been teaching this workshop for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy since the mid-nineties. The day before the workshop every year, I think, why did I sign up to teach this again?
And the first day of the workshop I answer, because these young lawyers learn with the speed that children heal. They come in not knowing how to ask a simple question and leave three days later running a competent line of cross-examination.
I give you the "funnel technique" and will soon provide extra tips for your first or fifth or tenth deposition.
For more posts on taking depositions, click here, here, here and here.
Have a great career. Many complain but, really, its a stimulating, character-building, multi-dimensional board game with real stakes. You never master it. That's the good of it. There's always a challenge.
