Preparing for and taking a deposition means playing the long game. What you do at the deposition arms you for cross-examination at trial—as long as you handle the deposition with trial cross squarely ...

Judge Amy Hanley says the goal of cross-examination is to maintain control of the witness and as the examining attorney much of the power to do that is in your hands. "You have a witness who has been ...

Q: I am being called as a witness in a criminal case. This is because I was at a restaurant when two guys got into it. I saw first hand what happened. One of them initiated it and wound up knocked out ...