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"Quit Wasting Depositions, Deposition Time, and Deposition Money"

This post was written by JD Hull: " Why use deposition time to learn things you can learn quickly and inexpensively from phone calls, libraries and even the most rudimentary Google search?

Before you schedule a deposition, do some informal investigation. Next time a new case begins, resist rushing into written discovery and depositions. Step back from the discovery routine--you'll get into that bubble soon enough--and learn a few things on your own.

Twenty years ago, James McElhaney, a gifted lawyer, writer and teacher of trial tactics, and the ABA Litigation Section, first published McElhaney's Trial Notebook, now in its fourth edition. Discovery, McElhaney noted, is a good way to learn what a witness will say, or to bind a party or witness to a particular version of the facts.

But it is also "a very inefficient way to get information..."

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Source: What About Paris? 23 April 2010. © 2005-2010 John Daniel Hull, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on April 27, 2010 (boomark / email).