Review the FRCP to understand the scope of permissible inquiry at a deposition. Under the FRCP, a deposing attorney may ask questions about any nonprivileged matter that is relevant to any party’s ...

September 19, 2025 - Everyone knows the baseline rule: an attorney cannot, and should not, coach a witness on the record during a deposition or influence the witness to change testimony. A deposition ...

Alan Feigenbaum offers his opinion on why professionalism at deposition is something that needs more attention in the practice of law. There is a line at the tail end of Francis Ford Coppola's The ...

Many lawyers treat defending a deposition as if the lawyer and witness had each taken the Hippocratic Oath to “do no harm.” They train their witnesses to say as little as possible. They get in and get ...

Volcanic ash poses a significant hazard for areas close to volcanoes and for aviation. For example, the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland, clearly demonstrated that even small-to-moderate ...