Our deposition and litigation forms product list --short descriptions  for attorneys and legal assistants to find the legal checklist, deposition question outline, or form they can use for the next deposition or trial.

Down for our full catalog list -  legal forms and eBooks designed for attorneys for depositions, trials, and litigation.

Use these links for the most requested categories.
Vehicle Accidents.         Bodily Injuries.  
Medical Depositions.     Premises Liability.
Experts.       ESI (Electronically Stored Information discovery). Witness Preparation.

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Below - our complete list of  all the deposition, trial, and litigation checklists, and other forms available.

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Category # 01 - Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA) Forms

MVA310401 Driver (Client or Adverse) Deposition Checklist A customers' favorite because in every motor vehicle accident there is a driver that must be deposed.  Doing that deposition skillfully leads to better settlements and verdicts.

MVA310405 Truck Driver Under Control of Defendant, Deposition Checklist
This checklist is for a the deposition of the company driver or executive that is taken to establish that the company was in control of the driver at the time of the MVA.

MVA310407 Notice of Taking Deposition of Corporation Regarding Driver Employee.

MVA310409 Attorney's Combination Checklist for Police Officer (MVA) Interview, Deposition, Trial Testimony

MVA007 Plaintiff's Request for Admissions, Rear End MVA (Auto or Truck Vehicle Accident)

MVA310403 Request to Adverse Driver to Bring Items to the Deposition.

MVA310411 Photo Assignment Checklist.

Category # 02 - Premises Liability Forms

Do the math!  If you gain only an hour by using our form, and your billing rate is $150 per hour, our form is  worth $150 to you. Use the form five times and gain five hours, and you will have gained $750 of billable time.


PREM001 Notice of Taking Deposition of Defendant Organization in Premises Case
PREM002 Request for Inspection of Premises PREM003 Premises Liability Deposition Checklist - of Defendant  A customers' favorite.
PREM006 Premises Liability Deposition Checklist -of Plaintiff  A customers' favorite.
 

Category # 03a -  Bodily Injury Litigation: Deposition, Litigation, and Trial Forms

BI3009 Stipulation for Physical Exam - Plaintiff's should demand this stipulation if the defense is asking for an IME.

BI3010 Handout for Plaintiff Client Before the Adverse Medical Examination.

BI3121 Bodily Injury Claimant Take-Home Form is four single spaced pages of items you should ask your plaintiff client to bring you, plus some standard advice you do not want to forget to give your client.

BI002 Request for Admissions, Medical Expenses - Good for states like Texas, where a general denial pleading is used, or anytime the defense is denying medical expenses without justification.

BI3106 Checklist for Deposition of Plaintiff's Bodily Injury (also Injuries Checklist - for both Plaintiff and Defense offices - for both depositions and trials.  Probably one of our most used checklists.  A customers' favorite.

BI3006 Bodily Injury Client's Checklist - for Plaintiff's offices. A check-the-box approach like doctors' offices use, to have a client list areas of injury.

BI005 Spouse's Testimony re Plaintiff's Personal Injury Checklist

Category # 03b - Medical Witnesses and Doctors Deposition, Litigation, and Trial Forms

You Gain Time !Our deposition checklists, litigation forms, trial notebook, and settlement forms will always save you time. We design it that way. 

MED3421 Plaintiff's Attorney Direct Examination of Plaintiff's Own Treating Doctor  - Designed for the plaintiff's attorney who wants to prepare a direct examination of the plaintiff's treating doctor, for deposition or for trial. A customers' favorite

MED3423 Defense Attorney Depo of Plaintiff's Treating Doctor -  A solid standard format for personal injury defense attorneys to have in their notebook of deposition checklists. A customers' favorite

MED3424- Duces Tecum Demand to Doctor being Deposed. A checklist form for building the duces tecum list in your subpoena to the doctor you are deposing

MED3426 Defense Direct Examination of Defense Doctor. Question checklist form built for the defendant’s attorney to use as a checklist in performing the direct examination of the defense medical doctor..

MED3428 Plaintiff's Attorney's Cross-Exam of the Defense Doctor. Question checklist form designed for plaintiffs’ attorneys in bodily injury cases. It is based on the assumption that the defense hired a doctor to examine your client plaintiff and you need to cross-examine the doctor.

MED3434 Plaintiff's Personal Injury Direct Exam of Physical Therapist. An excellent source for objective evidence of injury is the physical therapist, too often overlooked by trial counsel.

MED3432 Additional Testimony: Plastic Surgeon. This is for use as additional questions to ask when the doctor is a reconstructive surgeon. Add it on to the materials in forms MED3421 through MED3428.

Category # 04 - Deposition Aids and Witness Preparation

DEP4006 "Pointers for Witnesses" for Deposition or Trial --- A Witness Preparation Instruction Handout  The one best aid for preparing witnesses to testify. Witness Instruction Handout is an easy to use tool for you to teach in the office, and for your witness to learn at home.

DEP4008 Pointers for Witness in  Videotaped Deposition  The "Pointers" with  instructions adapted specially for witnesses whose depositions will be videotaped.

DEP009 Personal Injury Client Testimony: Additional Preparation Instructions

DEP1207 Instructions to Video Photographer at Deposition

DEP1217 Objections to Taking Notice Deposition, with Motion for Protective Order  When a five day notice of deposition arrives, this is a form that an attorney should have ready in their computer, before they need it, to give him/her the assurance they know what to do and how to do it ASAP.

Category # 05 - Tips and Forms regarding Experts

A customers' favorite. EX0804 Deposition Checklist to Cross-Exam the Adverse Expert Witness  [Checklist plus Advice  - why and what to ask]
EX0805 Request to Produce Adverse Expert's Files
EX0807 Subpoena Duces Tecum for Adverse Expert's File at Deposition.
EX0709 Expert Opinion Admissibility Checklist [Report plus Form]
EX0706 Request by Hiring Attorney re Retained Expert's Report
EXDEP004 Witness Pointers for Expert's Video Depositions. Applicable when the expert's deposition is videoed.
EX0303 Court Pretrial Order Regulating Challenges to Admission of Expert Witness Opinions  [Report plus Form]
EX03 The Ultimate Liability Questions for Your Expert. Prepare your expert witness to answer three ultimate questions in most negligence cases. Free Tips Form!

Category # 06 - Product Liability Forms

PROD001 Products Liability Deposition Checklist - Plaintiff

Category # 07 - Liquor Law Liability, Dram Shop, Forms

LIQ3111  Liquor liability lawsuit deposition questions and tips to establish liability, or prepare defense witnesses.

Category # 08 - Forms re Discovery of Electronic Records

#ELEC3320. Litigation Hold Letter to Client.  Tell your litigation your clients their obligations to preserve evidence, including electronic evidence.
# ELEC3321. Litigation Hold Letter to Adverse Attorney.  
The three pages of this single spaced checklist form demands in this letter form also will lead you to think clearly on what may be available to you if you use e-discovery to find electronically stored information, including the meta data.
#  ELEC22. Meet and Confer Report.  The checklist style report allows you to sit down with adverse counsel and stand up later with your form report check marked and ready to use for your required report to the court.
# ELEC3323. Clawback Agreement.
  Protection against waiving our client's privilege or your work-product protection by inadvertently producing a protected document in a mass of electronically produced information.
# ELEC3324. Checklist for Deposition of Corporate IT Person.
   Designed for an attorney taking the deposition of a corporate employee or officer in regard to the electronic records of the corporation, but equally valuable if you are the responding attorney as a checklist in your witness preparation.  Deposition eDiscovery is a checklist to use during a deposition to find out what kinds of records exist and how they may be accessed.
# ELEC3325. Protocol for On-Site Computer Inspection. A checklist to use for discussions with adverse counsel about the mechanics of who will do what, when, and with what safeguards, during an adverse inspection of computers. Although written from the viewpoint of the attorney asking for the physical inspection or download of electronic records, the checklist is equally valuable to responding counsel interested in ideas for protecting the client's computers.

Category # 09 - Settlement Forms

SET001 Settlement Evaluation and Summary Letter System
SET007 Settlement Offer Brochure System
SET017 Letter of Protection - BI Case - Plaintiff to Doctor

You Gain Knowledge !
Deposition checklists, a trial notebook system, a settlement offer system, advice on handling trials, trial forms --- they all bring you a packaged advisor and senior partner coach.
 

Category # 10 - Proven Tips and Strategies

TIP3013 Handling the Media - Public Relations

WIT0503 Standard Questions to Use in Cross-Examination

WIT0505 What you should do when the witness says: "I don't remember."
 

Category # 11 - Trial Notebook  Trial Forms

A customers' favorite. Two versions of Bucklin's Trial Notebook system with forms: LitigationReady!™ and Building Trial Notebooks.
For your own peace of mind you should use a trial notebook system for organizing any case in litigation. When you get to a deposition or to the courthouse, everything will be in order so that you will maintain an appearance of purpose and drive.  The object of this trial notebook system is: deposition and courtroom success through ability to organize. Take a tip from the best trial lawyers --- use a trial notebook.    For information on either (1) the e-book format - over 100 pages of advice and basic forms in our immediately downloadable - now - electronic e book version, or (2) the two volume loose-leaf binder format - over 500 pages of text and forms, plus searchable CD, supplemented annually, trial notebook system

Category # 12 -  Attorney Fee Awards.

Handbook for attorneys.  This a a 199 page (chock full, compacted) down to earth, direct advice. The author admits to unqualified assertions to give you the sort of advice you would get if you asked a senior partner litigator for advice. Law, tactic, and forms, including deposition outline for questioning the adverse expert witness on attorney fees, and a trial question outline for the direct examination of your own expert witness on your request for an attorney's fee award, are in Attorney Fee Award: a handbook for attorneys.

Additional deposition, settlement, negotiation, and trial forms. More are made available for distribution about every 60 days.


Articles on deposition, trials, and litigation practice.

From time to time we post free articles about deposition or trial preparation, such as the following. The Ethics of Preparing the Witness for a Deposition. Every good trial attorney prepares the witness for the deposition. Before you meet, you should think how you will handle the situation if the witness is not telling the facts in a believable manner, or there are or there are other problems with the witness that need... Read entire article>

Another is our series of free articles tells you the way to have your expert witness testify on the ultimate issues in a negligence case.  Read Three Ultimate Questions


All our deposition checklists  are designed to give you questions to ask in both depositions and trials.  They will help you organize, focus on critical questions, and prevent overlooking questions you should ask.  The customer category favorites are:

# 1 Motor Vehicle Liability Forms

Auto accidents. Truck accidents.  Highway and street accidents have common elements.  Our deposition and trial checklists for MVA are conveniently grouped.

# 2 Premises Liability Forms.

Premises cases involve more than slip and fall cases.  A falling object was one of the first negligence cases in old English law, and they still are cases that occur today.  Fires and explosions are another sort of premises liability case.  Products that cause harm are frequently on the premises of a defendant, and the case involves aspects of both premises and product liability. 

# 3 Liquor Law Liability, Dram Shop, Forms.

The law of liquor law liability (also known as dram shop liability) for selling or giving alcohol to persons who cause accidents, differs significantly from state to state.  But the techniques and the questions to ask to establish the liability, or defend against liability, can be put into forms that make good lawyers better in depositions and trials.

# 4 Expert Witnesses Forms

For the attorney or legal assistant to use in a lawsuit in which either side has an expert. 

Questions? Read our Q&A page.


P.S. For all Lawyers. Building Trial Notebooks, a hard copy trial notebook system, with two notebook binders, over 500 pages of text and forms, updated and supplemented annually with additional material, plus a CD of all the forms --- now is available for every lawyer engaged in litigation.  Authored by our Lawyer Trial Forms  author, it will get you up and running in the litigation race.  Building Trial Notebooks is ready for sale at the James Publishing, Inc., site, the sole distributor of that hardcover three ring binder book.

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