Nicole Westbrook Teaches Deposition Skills for NITA

April 14, 2023

Join NITA instructor Nicole Westbrook as she returns to the National Institute for Trial Advocacy classroom to teach deposition skills that get results.

Deposition Skills: Colorado

April 20-21, 2023

Shift Workspaces – Littleton | 2679 Main St. | Littleton, CO 80120

Can you walk into a deposition convinced you’ll get the information you need and secure the admissions you want from the opposition? Or if it’s your witness being deposed, do you know how to prepare them for the experience and protect them from falling into traps?

If you answered no, then this course is for you.

 

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND

For over fifty years, NITA has been the gold standard in teaching trial advocacy. Nowhere but through NITA can you receive personalized coaching by a veritable “who’s who” of advocacy experts—trial lawyers, judges, and law professors—from coast to coast

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

There is no better place for you to practice what we preach than in a NITA deposition room. Our lectures and demonstrations will provide a solid base of knowledge and familiarity with deposition practice. Some of the skills you will hone when you take a Deposition Skills course from NITA include how to:

• Use the Funnel Technique to exhaust a witness’s knowledge
• Identify other potential sources of information
• Close off avenues of escape
• Work with documents and exhibits to gather information, refresh memory, and impeach a witness
• Test your potential theories—legal, factual, and persuasive
• Deal with opposing counsel’s objections
• Manage difficult witnesses, counsel, and clients
• Become “comfortable with being uncomfortable” in the unpredictability of a deposition

NITA’s LEARNING BY DOING METHOD

When practiced in the safe harbor of the NITA deposition room, our learning-by-doing method allows you to take calculated risks and perform under pressure, without ever jeopardizing your client’s case or your own reputation.

 

All NITA participants will take the stage and practice each learned deposition skill in a series of simulated deposition exercises. You get to participate and observe, learning not only from your mistakes and triumphs but those of your fellow participants as well. You will also receive personalized coaching from our expert faculty that will help you to immediately improve your skills. Unlike an actual deposition, where the outcome is real, with NITA you get to make instant course corrections and practice them again—with only your old habits at stake.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

You should attend!

 

Whether you are a seasoned trial attorney, brand-new to trial practice, or anywhere in between, attending a NITA Deposition Skills course will give you the training you need to be a better advocate. Our world-class faculty will work with you on an individual level, helping develop the tools you need to succeed and to refine a style and approach that is uniquely your own. In addition, this course satisfies one of the requirements needed to achieve the NITA Advocate Designation.

YOUR REGISTRATION INCLUDES

• Lectures on deposition-taking techniques by NITA faculty members who comprise a veritable “who’s who” in the trial practice world
• Role-play opportunities in which you depose, prepare, and defend witnesses
• Constructive feedback from our expert program director and faculty members
• NITA course materials that include The Effective Deposition: Techniques and Strategies That Work, Fifth Edition book and a case file written specifically for Deposition Skills courses
• One credit towards the NITA Advocate Designation