Given how critical depositions are to the legal process, it stands to reason that fair deposition practices are paramount to a legal team’s success. However, several forms of unethical and unfair ...

September 19, 2025 - Everyone knows the baseline rule: an attorney cannot, and should not, coach a witness on the record during a deposition or influence the witness to change testimony. A deposition ...

Experienced litigators often describe successful trial preparation as a process that begins with identifying desired outcome, followed by “reverse engineering” the constituent parts of the desired ...

Review the FRCP to understand the scope of permissible inquiry at a deposition. Under the FRCP, a deposing attorney may ask questions about any nonprivileged matter that is relevant to any party’s ...

To stay on the right side of the rules during depositions, behave as if the judge is in the room, advise Randy Evans and Shari Klevens. The State Bar of California has adopted Attorney Guidelines of ...

Kate Rosenow (L) and Nathan Cox (R) of Bell Nunnally. Courtesy photos . As trials become increasingly rare, depositions have become the primary (and sometimes only) battleground involving both ...