Great Adverse Depositions:
Principles and Principal Techniques

Friday, October 2, 2009

The Sheraton
623 Union Street
Nashville, TN

Featuring Robert Musante

This course offers 6 hours of general CLE Credit approved in TN and MS.

Presented by:
The University of Mississippi
Center for Continuing Legal Education

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AGENDA

8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.	Registration
8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.	Deposition Cross-Examination: an Intellectually Rigorous Discipline Battleships: the Checklist of Recurring Deposition Questions Four Nearly Everybody-Agrees Deposition Cross-Examination Rules Grand Unified Theory of Civil Litigation Rationale of Saving Attacks for Surprise at Trial The Cut-to-the-Chase, Can’t-Be-Beat Argument vs. the Stupidest Orthodoxy Whack! Defined & Demonstrated Five 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
10:00 a.m. to 10:10 a.m.	BREAK
10:10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.	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 2nd Famous Cross-Examination Analyzed Reasoning Questions Firewalling Introduced Interrogatory-Like Questions Universal Questions A 3rd Famous Cross-Examination Analyzed Enumeration Looping
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.	LUNCH on your own
1:00 p.m. to 2:20 p.m.	Identifying a Mediocre Deposition in Only 60 Seconds Making the Implied/Hidden Express: Using Logic The Transfer of Information Rule & the Most Common Dumb Deposition Question Crap Defined Attacking Narrow Questions & Question-Dodging with High School English Skills Attacking 2 Answers in 1 Question Attacking the Needle & the Haystack Answer Making the Implied/Hidden Express: Using Lexicography
2:20 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.	BREAK
2:30 p.m. to 3:50 p.m.	More “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
3:50 p.m.	ADJOURN

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Robert Musante is the nation’s foremost teacher of deposition cross-examination skills. A former deputy district attorney, civil trial attorney, and lecturer in trial practice for 16 years at the University of California, Boalt Hall Law School, he has taught his unique and highly entertaining seminars to more than 30,000 litigators in 42 states. He has made in-house presentations to the attorneys general of 11 states and to the partners and associates of nearly 80 litigation law firms. For more info, including thousands of rave reviews, visit www.killerdepo.com.

Reviews of Past Attendees

This seminar has been wonderful and has proven to me the absolute importance of the adverse deposition. Very, very good content... lots of practical guidance and information. I plan to use this in my practice. Musante is an excellent speaker with obvious knowledge and experience. This is the best one-day seminar I have attended... I would recommend it to anyone.

In this short seminar, I have learned more practical skills necessary for deposition training than I thought possible. Musante is a talented teacher, clear, concise, energizing. The best I've attended. I wish I could go back and redo my past depositions.

Outstanding!!! Musante employs a very down-to-earth, common sense teaching style. Both informative and refreshing. While there was an enormous amount of material, Mr. Musante did an excellent job of getting through it. Provided an interesting analytical (and practical) framework re depositions.

Open Enrollment

Registration is open to all interested parties including attorneys, judges, legal assistants, and law office staff. Walk–ins will be accepted on a space–available basis. If you plan to attend and do not pre-register, please call the UM–CLE office at (662) 915-7283 to determine space availability. Written materials will be given on the day of the seminar. Pre-registration is encouraged.

Registration

Please complete the registration form and return it along with your payment to the address listed on the form. To register by fax, please complete the form and include your Visa or MasterCard number and expiration date. The fax number is (662) 915-5138, or register using our secure online registration. Registrants will receive additional information with their written confirmation from UM-CLE.

CLE Credit

This course offers 6 hours of general CLE Credit approved in TN and MS. Registrants seeking mandatory CLE credit from another state should contact UM-CLE in advance of the seminar.

Cancellations

Refunds will be given as follows:

• Two or more business days prior to the seminar, registration fee less a $25 administrative charge.
• One business day prior to the seminar, materials and registration fee less $75 OR transfer the registration fee to someone else in your firm or to an upcoming CLE seminar.
• No call, no show will receive materials only, no refunds.

In the unlikely event a seminar is canceled, registrants will be notified and issued full refunds.

Hotel Accommodations

Sheraton Nashville, 623 Union Street, Nashville, TN. Room rate of $149/single or $169/double. For group rate, reservations MUST be made by September 1, 2009. Call hotel direct at 1-800-325-3535 and refer to University of Mississippi Continuing Legal Education.

Accommodation of Special Needs

If you require special assistance relating to a disability, please contact Renee Moore at (662) 915-7283 prior to the seminar.

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