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advanced
DEPOSITIONS college
Learn the advanced techniques you need
to become a master at the art of depositions
JANUARY 15–18, 2010 • hotel monaco denver • Denver, co
“
Thanks to the skills I learned,
I was able to stay focused, not get
frustrated and turn my deposition
into a sword to use against the defense.
—Robert Freidel, Medford, NJ
EXCLUSIVE OPPORTUNITY
Open Only to Plaintiff Trial Lawyers
AAJ Education Endowed by
Power Rogers & Smith

ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Take your deposition skills to the next level with AAJ’s Advanced Depositions College.
This program provides the strategies and techniques to enhance the performance of even
the most experienced plaintiff trial lawyer at the deposition table.
Built on the fundamentals of AAJ’s Depositions College, the Advanced Depositions College
provides an in-depth, cutting-edge approach to perfecting depositions and witness preparation
skills. This program features a low student-to-faculty ratio, comprehensive lectures,
useful demonstrations, and five workshops—which will be recorded for you to take home—
to prepare you for success in depositions and in the courtroom. During the workshops, you
will practice your new skills and receive critical feedback from the experienced faculty.
Learn and Practice Advanced Techniques in Recorded Workshops:
• Discovery Plan and Witness Goals
• Lay Witnesses: Exhaustion, Boxing-In, Restating and Summarizing,
Nonverbals, Mirroring
• Document Discovery/“Death Star” Depositions
• Establishing Standards of Care and Conduct
• Deposing Experts
Open Only to AAJ Plaintiff Trial Lawyers
Who Should Attend
This program is designed for plaintiff trial lawyers who are well-grounded in the
fundamentals of taking and defending depositions and want to build on their trial skills.
Your Registration Includes
• 27 hours of continuing legal education, including one hour of ethics, and NCA credits,
which can be applied towards AAJ’s professional recognition programs
• Recorded workshops with personalized critiques
• Comprehensive reference materials
• Complimentary daily continental breakfast and coffee
• Networking lunch and reception
• Roundtable discussion breakfast buffet
RESERVE YOUR SPACE TODAY!
Visit www.justice.org/education/advanceddepositions or call
AAJ Education at 800-622-1791 or 202-965-3500, ext. 612
(After November 1, this extension will be 8612.)

AGENDA
Friday, January 15
REGISTRATION
(Continental breakfast available)
7:30 am–8:00 am
MORNING SESSION
8:00 am–12:45 pm
Understanding Bias and Its Role
in Discovery and at Trial
• How bias affects your deposition
strategy
• Combating bias in discovery
and trial
Establishing Standards of Care and
Conduct with Defense Witnesses
Workshop: Discovery Plan
and Witness Goals
• Witness plan
• Goals for each lay witness—three
take-aways
NETWORKING LUNCH
12:45 pm–1:45 pm
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:45 pm–6:00 pm
Demonstration: Making the
Most of E-Discovery
• Deposition Techniques
• Exhaustion
• Boxing-in
• Restating and summarizing
• Nonverbals, mirroring
Workshop on Lay Witnesses:
Exhaustion, Boxing-in,
Restating and Summarizing,
Nonverbals, Mirroring
NETWORKING RECEPTION
6:00 pm–7:00 pm
Saturday, January 16
MORNING SESSION
(Continental breakfast available)
8:00 am–1:00 pm
Depositions of Corporate
Representatives: The 30(b)(6)
Deposition
• Crafting the notice for your case
• Use of 30(b)(6) for contention
depositions related to defenses
• Demonstration of questions used
with the 30(b)(6) deposition to
establish the witness speaks for
the corporation
• Relationship between Rules
30(b)(6) and 32
“Death Star” Depositions:
The 30(b)(2) Deposition
• Finding all the documents
• Using a 30(b)(2) deposition to
discover case dispositive information
• Altered records: lock the defendant in,
then impeach with the originals
• Using the “smoking gun” document
Workshop: Document
Discovery/“Death Star”
Depositions
LUNCH
(On your own)
1:00 pm–2:00 pm
What Past Attendees Say
““My workshop leader was fantastic. He gave valuable insights into the practical
use of the information we were working on. He gave constructive critiques of our
mock depositions, which were informative and helpful.”
—Mark Atlee, Lancaster, PA
“
The combination of bias, establishing standards of care, and deposition
techniques…plus the workshops, leads me to a much stronger understanding of
how to create a transcript that will be useful at trial and so much more than a
discovery session. This was excellent. This course, as a whole, enables the lawyer to
use a transcript the way a painter uses a canvas. Awesome!
—Charles Rock, Newburgh, NY

AGENDA continued
AFTERNOON SESSION
2:00 pm–5:30 pm
Crawling Inside the Skin of
Your Deponent
Demonstration: Dealing with the
Evasive Witness
• Techniques in handling the evasive
witness
• Demonstration of deposing the
evasive witness
Workshop: Establishing
Standards of Care and Conduct
Sunday, January 17
MORNING SESSION
(Continental breakfast available)
8:00 am–12:30 pm
Dealing with the Rambo
Litigator (ethics)
• Rule 4.2 and ex parte
communications
• Use of deposition protocol
• Hall v. Clifton Precision Tools
Witness Preparation
• Learning styles
• Processing styles
• Making your witness defamation proof
• Diagnosing witness’s problems and
issues (Live demonstration with a
former client)
LUNCH
12:30 pm–1:30 pm
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:30 pm–4:45 pm
Special Considerations for Deposing
Experts
• Establishing facts and theories
favorable to your case
• Daubert
• Silver bullets
Microexpressions
Workshop: Deposing Experts
Monday, January 18
MORNING SESSION
(Buffet breakfast)
8:30 am–1:00 pm
How to Effectively Use Your
Depositions in Trial
• Maximum effect as impeachment
• Substantive evidence when the
witness is unavailable
• In opening and closing using
PowerPoint
Faculty Deposition Demonstrations
So, Now What Do We Do?
• How to use what we have learned
• Applying the advanced techniques
to our practice
About Workshops
Through hands-on workshops in
small groups, you will receive individual
attention and critiques of your skills by highlyexperienced
faculty. Your recorded workshops
are yours to take home for further study.
INVITED FACULTY
Richard D. Hailey concentrates his practice in personal injury. Mr. Hailey is a past president
of AAJ (formerly ATLA®), Fellow of the Pound Civil Justice Institute, Governor of the
Indiana Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA), and a member of the ITLA’s College of Fellows.
The law firm of Ramey & Hailey is in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Katherine James is cofounder, with Alan Blumenfeld, of ACT of Communication in
Culver City, California whose workshops have trained more than 20,000 lawyers and
whose work as part of trial teams has taken more than 700 cases to trial. Her expertise is
in helping to make attorneys more effective in live communication as well as to prepare
witnesses for deposition, mediation, arbitration, and trial. She has been a part of the
faculty at various trial colleges, universities, and law schools including ATLA’s Ultimate

INVITED FACULTY continued
Trial Advocacy Course: Art of Persuasion. ACT of Communication’s newest project, What Can
Lawyers Learn From Actors?, takes their nationally acclaimed workshops and translates them
into a packaged video series with workbooks to maximize the interactive learning experience.
William L. Keating concentrates his practice in complex personal injury/wrongful death
litigation, including products liability, fire/explosions, trucking/auto collisions, automotive
defects, construction accidents, insurance bad faith and catastrophic injuries. He has been
elected to membership in The American College of Trial Lawyers, The International Society
of Barristers, The American Board of Trial Advocates, The International Academy of Trial
Lawyers and The Academy of Catastrophic Injury Attorneys. He is a past president of the
Colorado Lawyers Association. Mr. Keating is a partner with the law firm of Fogel Keating
Wagner Polidori Shafner, P.C., in Denver, Colorado.
Mark R. Kosieradzki concentrates his practice in products liability, wrongful death, spinal
cord injuries, amputations, nursing home abuse and burns. Mr. Kosieradzki is certified by
the National Board of Trial Advocacy and the Minnesota Bar Association as a Civil Trial
Specialist, was elected to the American Board of Trial Advocates, and is a past president of
the Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association. He has served on AAJ’s Board of Governors, is past
chair of AAJ’s Nursing Home Litigation group, is a member of AAJ’s NCA Board of Trustees,
and is a Diplomate of AAJ’s NCA. The Kosieradzki Smith Law Firm, LLC is in Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
Thomas S. McGrath represents homeowners and commercial property owners against
building contractors, pest control operators, architects, and real estate agents regarding
construction defects, termite damage, pesticide exposure, toxic mold and real estate fraud.
He is a frequent lecturer on these subjects and a Diplomate of AAJ’s National College of
Advocacy (NCA). Mr. McGrath is admitted to practice in Colorado, Illinois, and Alabama.
The McGrath Law office is located in Huntsville, Alabama.
Phillip H. Miller, course advisor, has an exclusively personal injury practice. Mr. Miller has
tried 48 jury trials to a verdict and handled a wide range of complex cases including trucking
litigation, nursing home claims, pharmaceutical torts, and daycare center child abuse. He is
AV rated and has been certified as a civil trial specialist continuously since 1991. In addition
to his law practice, Mr. Miller has extensive experience working as a trial consultant on cases
nationwide specializing in discovery planning and trial preparation. He serves on the executive
committee for the Tennessee Association for Justice, is a member of AAJ’s NCA Board of
Trustees, is a Diplomate of AAJ’s NCA, and is a frequent speaker for AAJ and state trial lawyer
associations. Phillip H. Miller & Associates is located in Nashville, Tennessee.
Christopher J. O’Brien, course advisor, concentrates his practice in automobile negligence,
sexual assault, food poisoning, and wrongful death litigation. He is past president of the Western
Affiliate of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association (NYSTLA) and a Diplomate of
AAJ’s NCA. Mr. O’Brien is a frequent speaker for AAJ and NYSTLA CLE programs and is an
adjunct faculty professor at SUNY at Buffalo Law School. He is a partner with O’Brien Boyd,
P.C. in Buffalo, New York.
Karen R. Roberts concentrates her practice on personal injury and products liability litigation.
Ms. Roberts worked as a broadcast journalist for several years before receiving her J.D.
She is a current Vice President of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, immediate past-chair
of the TTLA Board of Advocates and a former member of AAJ’s NCA Board of Trustees. She
practices with the Roberts Law Office in Tyler, Texas.
Thomas J. Vesper’s practice focuses on products liability, professional malpractice, medical
negligence, and consumer fraud cases. He is a former member of AAJ’s NCA Board of Trustees,
a frequent lecturer, and author of the Trial and Depositions Notebooks, published by West/
AAJ Press (formerly ATLA Press). Mr. Vesper is a senior partner in the firm of Westmoreland
Vesper & Quattrone in West Atlantic City, New Jersey.

TRAVEL & CLE
Reserve Your Hotel by December 9, 2009 and Save!
A limited number of rooms will be held at Hotel Monaco Denver, a Kimpton Boutique
Hotel, in downtown Denver, CO until December 9, 2009 for program registrants. To
receive AAJ’s special group rate of $179 single/double room, plus 23.55% tax, complete
your housing and/or travel arrangements online at www.exectravel.com/meetings/aaj
or download the reservation form at www.justice.org/education/advanceddepositions.
Hotel Monaco Denver
1717 Champa Street
Denver, CO 80202
Recently voted “Best Business Hotel” and one of the “Top 500 Best
Hotels in the World” by Travel & Leisure magazine, the Hotel
Monaco Denver offers:
• Complimentary morning coffee and tea served in the lobby
• Hosted evening wine reception, a chance to relax and unwind after a busy day with
complimentary chair massages and appetizers
• Complimentary 24-hour on-site fitness room
• Complimentary overnight shoeshine service
• Choice of complimentary morning newspaper available
Plus, if you’re a member of Kimpton’s InTouch loyalty program, you’ll enjoy personalized
room preferences, complimentary internet access and other welcome amenities.
If you must cancel your hotel reservations, please call Executive Travel Associates (ETA)
weekdays, 9:00 am–5:30 pm ET. However, if you must change your hotel reservations with
72 hours prior to the start of the program, please call the hotel directly at 303-296-1717.
If for unforeseen reasons this program is canceled, AAJ cannot be held financially responsible
for airline tickets, and room rates cannot be guaranteed.
MCLE/NCA Requirements
Earn approximately 27 † CLE credits, including one hour of ethics, to be applied to your
participation in AAJ’s professional recognition programs. For information about AAJ’s
professional recognition programs, visit www.justice.org/recognition. AAJ Education
programs are routinely accredited by states requiring continuing legal education. CLE
questions may be addressed by calling the CLE Assistant at 800-622-1791 or 202-965-3500,
ext. 335. (After November 1, this extension will be 8335.)
† Number of credits may vary depending on calculation method used by individual state accreditation
agencies. AAJ is a State Bar of California MCLE-approved provider.
Special Assistance
AAJ Education will make every effort to ensure that its meetings are held in facilities that
are fully accessible to persons with mobility disabilities. If you plan to attend our program
and need special facilities or assistance relating to a disability, please call 800-622-1791 or
202-965-3500, ext. 612. (After November 1, this extension will be 8612.)

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