Jerry Glas & Raymond Lewis, partners in the Civil Litigation Department in the New Orleans office, published “Designing and Executing a Critical Witness Deposition" in From the Trenches III: Pretrial Strategies for Success, a publication of the American Bar Association. In this chapter, they explain their tips to designing and executing the perfect strategy for a critical witness deposition.

From the Trenches III, Pretrial Strategies for Success follows two prior successful volumes. Embodied in this volume are important and invaluable insights from experienced trial lawyers from across the country. The topics addressed in Volume 3 are wide ranging, but focus on strategies and techniques to enhance the chances for successful resolution of lawsuits and disputes. The topics begin with discussions of pre-suit tasks and options, including investigations, pre-suit mediation, and pre-suit discovery. The topics also include practice tips for enhancing case organization after the lawsuit is filed, effective advocacy, use of jury consultants, forum selection strategies, and important considerations for witness selection and final trial preparations.

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