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Caught on Video: Deposition Disasters


Level: Intermediate
Runtime: 75 minutes
Recorded Date: October 13, 2024
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Agenda

• Deposition do’s and don’t’s
        - Out of control lawyer
        - Out of control witness
        - Improper instructions
• View real world depo clips of deposition debacles to explore proper rules
• Tips for maintaining credibility and best preparing your case and witness
• Managing the difficulty of celebrity/famous/powerful people
• Sanctions issues for depo disasters
For NY - Difficulty Level: Both newly admitted and experienced attorneys

Description

Fighting lawyers, fighting witnesses (literally), threats, put downs and other improper behavior – these are just a few of the deposition disasters that have been caught on camera, including infamous celebrity deponents Justin Bieber and Lil Wayne. In this entertaining program, veteran litigator Peter Afrasiabi chronicles some of the worst deposition disasters and the lessons that can be gleaned from the improper behavior of the lawyers and witnesses involved. This program will be useful for litigators of all levels and highly entertaining for lawyers of every stripe.

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Panelists

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Peter Afrasiabi

Founding Partner
One LLP

Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One, LLP, and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at University of California, Irvine School of Law.

Peter graduated from University of California, Los Angeles and University of Southern California Gould School of Law.


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