This course offers students an opportunity to master preparing the witness, developing and executing a questioning formula for obtaining complete information, using simple language, creating a clear deposition record, formulating concise questions, listening carefully to answers, making and handling objections, using exhibits during the deposition, and dealing with obstreperous defending counsel.
Students participate in a hands-on workshop to develop good deposition techniques.
This course will cover advanced research topics and review sources introduced in the Legal Research and Writing and Moot Court courses. Topics include legislative and statutory research, administrative law research, periodical literature, search strategy, practice materials including form books, legal checklists, interrogatories, and jury instructions and court rules, records and briefs, reference materials, and other secondary sources. The emphasis is on the practical legal research skills needed for students working in legal clerking positions. Using an interactive workshop approach, this course will examine creative ways to attack and defeat the various legal challenges which seek to bar an attorney from proceeding with a claim or defense. Students will learn how to read codes, statutes, and rules and regulations with an eye to overcoming apparent barriers.