February 19, 2008

Deposition Tips For Alabama Consumers

We have focused this blog on consumer issues but we have spent many years developing our personal injury and wrongful death litigation skills over many cases. We have gained some insights into depositions and have shared a few of our preparation skills in our new blog - Birmingham Injury Blog - in five separate posts that we believe will be of use to our consumer readers.

The blog posts are as follows:
Four Keys To Being Prepared For A Deposition
First Key - Hear The Question
Second Key - Understand The Question
Third Key - Think About The Truthful Answer
Fourth Key - Only Answer The Question

While these posts are written with a slant towards personal injury cases and depositions, we still believe they will be useful to any consumer who is facing a deposition and wants some general thoughts on one way to approach deposition preparation.

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May 3, 2007

What Not To Do In Your Deposition

Ronald Miller has a great post in his Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog about protecting plaintiffs in depositions. He makes the excellent point that a plaintiff or consumer "caught lying" can destroy the case. It may be as innocent as simply not remembering a car wreck or two from some years back.

Two observations - first, in a car wreck case Ronald's point about obtaining a AISG report on the client is well made. This will help the lawyer and the client make sure nothing is said (or not said) about prior wrecks that the insurance company lawyer can take advantage of.

The second observation is that whatever the case involves (car wreck, identity theft, etc) if the plaintiff lies, the case is usually over. I remember a case which should have been a six figure verdict completely go down the drain in about two minutes during trial when the plaintiff "exaggerated" the impact in the wreck. We need to stress to our clients to always tell the truth and never stretch or exaggerate - not only is it morally wrong, it will come back to bite them at trial.

By the way, Ronald's (and his partner Laura Zois) blog is one of the best injury blogs and one that we certainly keep in our Google Reader - check it out, you'll enjoy it.

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