Preparing Witnesses: A Practical Guide for Lawyers and Their Clients

The job of a witness is to keep perspective: not on some cosmic truth, but simply the truth as he or she knew it then, and remembers it now. This is neither an easy nor a natural assignment-to do it right takes hard work.

Best-selling ABA author, Dan Small, has further mastered and detailed the process of witness preparation in his third edition of Preparing Witnesses. Parts of it are written in the "voice" of speaking to a client, because learning how to best communicate these ideas is often as important as the ideas themselves.

With a focus on the similarities between real-world depositions, Preparing Witnesses, Third Edition, provides strategies to make a witness comfortable and effective in the courtroom. Preparing Witnesses, Third Edition, will aid in refining your skills for delivering witness testimony with an impact.