How To Take a Deposition - Best Practices | AlderTalk - How To Take A Deposition 

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!! I conducted my first deposition today and applied your tips and felt so empowered ❤ I got answers to the tough questions. That part on objection is priceless!

May I add some tips from a court reporter’s point of view: 1. Speak slowly. 2. Speak one at a time. 3. Read transcripts. In the last 20 years as a court reporter in CA, I find that attorneys, especially younger ones, are speaking faster and faster. Seems like their brain is going a mile a minute, and it sometimes shows by questions going anywhere and everywhere. It’s virtually impossible to take down multiple people speaking at once, usually when there’s an objection. Everyone will have a chance to speak and have their comments on the record. The transcript will be cleaner without dashes that we need to put in because one person is cutting off the other. I’m not sure if most attorneys actually read their deposition transcripts or if they have interns read them and give notes. This may help tremendously on how to make a good record. These three things will be very much appreciated by your court reporter 🤗

This was great!

Thank you for making a great video. You are an amazing lawyer.

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Way to go, Mike! Thanks for your candid and professional advice!!

Thank you for this.

Thank u

Great job Mike

Thank you SO much for this, I'll be using these ideas in a depo tomorrow morning here in NOLA! Geaux Tigers!

Great instruction and tips on depo. You don't see this in CEB textbooks

I offer these humble gratitudes as honest attention tokens in good faith assistance to the machine minions monetizing this well honed perispicacity. Y'all are fire.

thank you

Great video sir. My absolute favorite is when corproate executives and corporate designee repeatedly testify “I don’t know” to critical questions where the evidence is stacked heavily against them and can only be looked at one way. These aee my favorite. And then I’m usually a a** and say you can testify to that nonsense all you want but that ain’t going to help you and only be devastating to your employer or the defendant in front of jurors in the Community hearing this case

I don't understand something: How come prisons are not overflowing with people who are exposed as liars under oath? Furthermore, in my case: Her LAWYER submitted a false exhibit at the hearing and it was later exposed. How come her lawyer was not disbarred?

Every other attorney video I've watched said to not give guestimates. It can go against you.

Sometime, the attorney will object so much that a judge needs to be called. If the judge is not available, it becomes a deadlock.

When a plaintiffs lawyer is deposing a pro se defendant, I would think that this is where the case is won. The defendants goose has to be cooked. Thoughts?

Why? For billing hours.

Would you be willing to share some of those depos in your database for someone to read up on?

Citations aren't in description.

Am never at fault

you can only object for form during a depo? that doesn't sound right why not relevance?

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Watching for fun as I will be taking a deposition from a low level, scum lawyer. He's created a fraudulent case and I will be taking him down.

Why the headset?

What if five years have past, its hard to remember!