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

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    Stewart v. Colonial Western Agency, Inc. (2001) 87 Cal.App.4th 1006
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 47

  • @Skydiva692
    @Skydiva692 11 місяців тому +14

    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!

    • @AlderTalk
      @AlderTalk  6 місяців тому +1

      That’s so great to hear!!!

  • @hjong8830
    @hjong8830 3 місяці тому +5

    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 🤗

    • @tonycamaj4560
      @tonycamaj4560 2 місяці тому

      can't the recordings whether it be video or audio be used during trial anyhow or is it only what the court reporter is able to transcribe?

  • @amirnevis
    @amirnevis 9 місяців тому

    This was great!

  • @MonaLisasApple
    @MonaLisasApple 2 місяці тому +1

    I love the coffee note. I have given my clients the best quality coffee artisano from my parents company.

  • @napolinlaw
    @napolinlaw Рік тому +6

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

  • @DengLaw
    @DengLaw Рік тому +8

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

    • @AlderTalk
      @AlderTalk  Рік тому

      Of course! New content today!

    • @johncarr8167
      @johncarr8167 Рік тому

      ​@@AlderTalk Are depositions demanded by motion or are part of a pretrial schedule or by simple letter or verbal request ?
      or is it part of Interrogatories, Discovery, and under a procedural rule,etc. ??
      Thanks in advance for an Answer

    • @michaelalder8002
      @michaelalder8002 11 місяців тому

      They are demanded by written notice

  • @bimbointellect
    @bimbointellect 22 дні тому

    Thank you for this.

    • @AlderTalk
      @AlderTalk  20 днів тому

      Thanks for the comment!

  • @carlaraimer718
    @carlaraimer718 Рік тому +2

    Thank u

  • @kenbehzadi1185
    @kenbehzadi1185 9 місяців тому

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

  • @c.joseph1987
    @c.joseph1987 4 місяці тому

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

    • @AlderTalk
      @AlderTalk  4 місяці тому

      Awesome. Good luck!!

  • @georgemckenzie2525
    @georgemckenzie2525 9 днів тому

    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.

  • @basicprogrammer6147
    @basicprogrammer6147 Рік тому +6

    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?

    • @SorrentoShore
      @SorrentoShore 11 місяців тому

      Because the legal system is schitt.
      Crooked lawyers who charge for every hiccup, judges who are bias. They can all f off.

    • @tonycamaj4560
      @tonycamaj4560 2 місяці тому

      was this family law?

  • @kennethnicholson9222
    @kennethnicholson9222 Рік тому +1

    Great job Mike

  • @lepplerinjurylaw8855
    @lepplerinjurylaw8855 4 місяці тому

    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

    • @AlderTalk
      @AlderTalk  4 місяці тому

      Love that! The fact that they run a multi billion company and then seem to go deaf and mute and can’t understand simple questions is the best cross examination.

  • @specag31
    @specag31 Рік тому +2

    Why? For billing hours.

  • @mr.c6674
    @mr.c6674 Рік тому +4

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

    • @girlscout718
      @girlscout718 6 місяців тому +2

      true, but he's pushing deponent to do just that because it's good for his side. Both are correct.

  • @iamtrapped1
    @iamtrapped1 Рік тому +1

    thank you

  • @HyruleDude
    @HyruleDude 11 місяців тому +1

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

  • @advanceromance2656
    @advanceromance2656 2 місяці тому +1

    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?

  • @cwhritvt9765
    @cwhritvt9765 20 днів тому

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

  • @the1gofer
    @the1gofer Рік тому +2

    Citations aren't in description.

  • @007kingifrit
    @007kingifrit 7 місяців тому

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

    • @AlderTalk
      @AlderTalk  7 місяців тому

      Because there is no judge so relevance would have to be ruled on. It’s not up to the lawyers to determine what is relevant. It’s decided later. Stewart v colonial western.

    • @007kingifrit
      @007kingifrit 7 місяців тому

      @@AlderTalk so objections could be issued later on when they tried to admit something for the other types of objections?

    • @AlderTalk
      @AlderTalk  7 місяців тому

      @@007kingifrit exactly. The form of the question
      Objection are made at the time of depo to give the questioning attorney the option of amending the question to fix any potential problem

  • @user-gp3ck8mb2q
    @user-gp3ck8mb2q 7 місяців тому +2

    Am never at fault

    • @AlderTalk
      @AlderTalk  7 місяців тому +1

      That’s what they all say

  • @tusan20
    @tusan20 10 місяців тому

    ❤😊

  • @preservativetalkradio
    @preservativetalkradio 2 місяці тому

    Why the headset?

  • @jeannettesmith1248
    @jeannettesmith1248 6 місяців тому

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

    • @AlderTalk
      @AlderTalk  6 місяців тому +1

      Then that’s fine. But the point is you get to force them to tell everything they do remember

  • @SorrentoShore
    @SorrentoShore 11 місяців тому +2

    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.