Litigation

More Practice Tips from My Deposition Book

By Evan Schaeffer

The book I recently wrote about depositions, Deposition Checklists and Strategies (James Publishing, 2006 Rev. 2007), contains eight chapters. As a bonus, each chapter contains an assortment of "practice tips," comparable to the type of tips I post here on the weblog. Here are some of the practice tips you'll find in Chapter 5, Medical Malpractice--

• Practice Tip: Establishing Liability Without an Expert
• Practice Tip: Jury Instructions
• Practice Tip: Case Selection
• Practice Tip: Explaining Medical Malpractice Cases to the Client
• Practice Tip: Hospital Liability
• Practice Tip: Procedurally-Based Defense Strategies
• Caution: Pre-Litigation Collection of Medical Records
• Practice Tip: Selecting Your Medical Expert
• Caution: Don't Wait to Long to Consult an Expert
• Practice Tip: Thinking in Reverse About Witnesses
• Practice Tip: The Locality Rule and Expert Witnesses
• Practice Tip: The Difficult Witness
• Practice Tip: Prepare for the Doctor-Defendant Like You Would an Expert
• Practice Tip: Shortening the Preliminary Questions
• Practice Tip: Examine the Doctor's Original Medical Records
• Practice Tip: Admissibility of Statements by Your Client
• Practice Tip: Peer Review
• Practice Tip: The Defendant Who Is Qualified as an Expert
• Caution: Never Finish Until You're Done
• Practice Tip: Prior Lawsuits
• Practice Tip: Medical Terminology
• Practice Tip: "In Lay Terms"

For more information about the book, see this brochure at James Publishing (pdf). You can also learn more about the book in the following posts at Illinois Trial Practice--

• "Listing the Chapters in My Deposition Book"
• "A Plug for My Deposition Book: Some Specialized Deposition Outlines"
• "My Coverage of Expert Depositions in Deposition Checklists and Strategies"
• "Listing Some of the Practice Tips in My Deposition Book"

Full post as published by The Illinois Trial Practice Blog on March 04, 2008 (boomark / email).