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More Lawyer Advertising: Depositions 101

By Eric Lipman

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Maybe I just don't get it. On the Birmingham Injury Blog, lawyer John Watts has begun a series of videos on the basic principles of deposition preparation. He's posted the first video, in which he discusses the most important principle of sitting for a deposition: Tell the truth. The next video, in which he lists the four rules of answering questions, though it doesn't appear to have been posted to Watts's blog yet, is available on YouTube. And, now, on Legal Blog Watch: In my days practicing in New York, I prepared many a witness for deposition. And I have no quarrel with the advice given by Watts so far. It sounds very much like what the first five minutes of a deposition prep session for a novice witness should sound like. What I fail to understand is how posting videos like this to a blog and/or YouTube serves Mr. Watts or his clients. Are there really situations where a witness will be Googling around the Internet the night before his deposition looking for tips, come across Watts's videos and decide, "Hey, maybe I should have a lawyer come with me?" Once he's already been retained, does he refer clients/witnesses...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on June 23, 2010 (boomark / email).