Cross-examination is the stuff of drama in fictional courtroom depictions. The savvy lawyer taking on a hostile witness on the stand—these are the moments TV and movie audiences live for. However, the ...

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 ...

Under the new Biden administration, the future feasibility of OCR’s all-or-nothing stance on cross-examination will be examined – if not by OCR itself, then likely by the federal courts. And it’s ...

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 ...

“If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.” ― Agatha Christie, Murder on ...

From a legal point of view, there are two kinds of questions. OK, maybe four, but the latter two are really riffs on the basic two. Questions on direct examination are a species of their own and ...