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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,
Musante has taught
his unique and highly
entertaining seminars to
more than 35,000
litigators in 41 states. He has
made in-house presentations
to the attorneys general of 11
states and to the partners
and associates of more than
80 litigation law firms. For more information, including thousands of
rave reviews from litigators across the country, visit www.killerdepo.com.
Seminar Location
Wynfrey Hotel
1000 Riverchase
Galleria
Birmingham, AL
(205) 987-1600
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Birmingham, AL
Cumberland School of Law
CLE
800 Lakeshore Drive
Birmingham, Al 35229
Great Adverse Depositions:
Principles and Principal
Techniques featuring
Robert Musante
“Head and shoulders above any other seminar I've ever been to. Turns
what I knew, or what I thought I knew, on its head.” Robert J. Varley
Friday
October 22, 2010
Wynfrey Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama
6 CLE credit hours

Great Adverse Depositions:
Principles and Principal Techniques
featuring Robert Musante
Great adverse depositions require the conscious and conscientious
application of an integrated set of logical rules that constitute the
discipline of deposition cross-examination, rules that best exploit case
theory opportunities and attack case theory problems.
Musante will walk you through these rules, and show you how to
apply them by analyzing cross-examinations in famous cases.
This seminar is for litigators who don't yet take great adverse
depositions every time out . . . but want to.
8:00 Registration
8:30 • Depo cross-x: an intellectually rigorous discipline
• Battleships: checklist of recurring deposition questions
• Four nearly everybody-agrees deposition cross-x rules
• Grand Unified Theory of civil litigation
• Rationale re saving attacks for surprise at trial
• The can't-be-beat argument vs. the stupidest orthodoxy
• Whack! defined and demonstrated
• Deposition cross-examiner's seven advantages
• A famous cross-examination analyzed
10:00 Networking Break
10:10 • Introduction of The Magnificent Seven
• When to ask leading questions in deposition
• 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
11:20 Networking Break
11:30 • Reasoning questions
• Interrogatory-like questions
• Universal questions
• A 3rd famous cross-examination analyzed
• Enumeration
12:30 Lunch on your own
Friday, October 22, 2010
Wynfrey Hotel
1:30 • Looping
• Identifying a mediocre deposition in only 60 seconds
• Making the implied express: using lexicography
• Making the implied express: using logic
• The most common dumb deposition question
2:40 Networking Break
2:50 • Attacking the narrow question & question-dodging with high
school grammar
• Attacking 2 answers in 1 question
• Attacking the needle and the haystack answer
• The "wisdom" of saving attacks for surprise at trial
• Conducting interviews vs. taking great adverse depositions
4:00 Adjourn
Comments from your colleagues:
6 CLE
hours
“Great seminar . . . substantially better than others. Musante is fantastic.”
Sara Ford
“The best CLE seminar I have attended. The combination of video clips and commentary
for specific teaching points was informative, entertaining, and very
effective. "Musante's Rules" are succinct and excellent short-hand guides to take
an effective deposition. I think the techniques will improve my deposition
examinations significantly." Steven Benefield
“Musante's program helps build an excellent foundation for every lawyer to use
in becoming a more effective cross-examiner. He offers good practical pointers
that I find very useful even after twenty-five years of taking depositions.
Musante helps make your depositions more productive and better for "whacking"
your deponent when the time comes.” Victor Hayslip
"Excellent, practical content. Extremely relevant to everyday litigation practice
when compared to other CLE programs." Michael J. Clemmer
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