Credibility
Measured across the whole session and reported the moment you sit down.
Exhibit III · The Witness Stand
Witness prep is the first thing the calendar takes and the last thing anyone budgets for. Send your client, your lay witness or your expert in to be crossed on their own, as often as it takes, and get back a straight read on how they held up and what to work on before the deposition.
Thomas Meyer, defense counsel, working a lay witness on cross.
You send a link. They sit down when they can, from wherever they are, with no travel, no conference room and no hour of yours spent watching them find their footing.
Three opposing counsel, three ways in. One comes straight at them, one builds the trap over several questions, one is friendly right up until the impeachment.
No partner watching, nothing to be embarrassed about. That is the point. The first time somebody gets worked over on the record should not be the deposition.
The report names the question that moved them. They can run it back the same afternoon, work that answer, and watch the number change before it counts.
Where they held and where they gave ground, the question that did it quoted back, and what to do differently. Written for the witness, so you can send it to them, and specific enough to be worth another run.
Measured across the whole session and reported the moment you sit down.
Measured across the whole session and reported the moment you sit down.
Measured across the whole session and reported the moment you sit down.
Aggressive · Relentless
Methodical · Sets traps
Disarming · Then impeaches
Oppose a four-month continuance while the bench pushes back.
02Take the reconstruction report apart at the seams.
You are the plaintiff, and counsel has your sworn record.
You are hereTrade offers against a cap only you hold.
05Six in the box, four seats, two strikes.
06Open to the four you just seated.
Send the link tonight. They sit down when they can, get crossed as many times as it takes, and you find out where they actually are while there is still time to do something about it.