Course Guides: Deposition Skills

Course Guides - Deposition Skills

Course Description

This course examines the purposes, advantages, and disadvantages of depositions; the mechanics of taking and defending depositions; planning and scheduling depositions and preparing oneself to take a deposition; taking depositions for use at trial; preparing the witness for deposition; handling the deposition itself; the use of documents at the deposition; the use of stipulations and other special matters associated with depositions; handling obnoxious or obstructionist opposing counsel, making applications to the court, and protective orders; reviewing, correcting and editing the transcript of videotape of the deposition, and the use of the deposition for summary judgment and at trial; how to defend the deposition; videotape depositions; and expert depositions. This course will be practice-oriented. It will involve the use of real-life examples. The course material will include the use of excerpts from various publications by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, ATLA, ABA and others. Also included will be a number of helpful articles and commentaries by leading practitioners. (2 credits) Prerequisite: Evidence.

Faculty Who Teach This Course

Manning J. O’Connor, Esq. (adjunct professor)
Honorable David N. Wecht (Judge of the Court of Common Pleas Family Division & adjunct professor)

Subject Covered Presently in Collection by:

Print Collection

KF8900 Civil Procedure – Pretrial Procedure – Deposition and Discovery - Interrogatories
KFP537 Pennsylvania - Civil Procedure – Pretrial Procedure – Deposition and Discovery - Interrogatories