TY - BOOK ED - ABA Consortium for Professional Education. ED - National Institute for Trial Advocacy (U.S.). TI - Training the advocate PY - 1985/// CY - St. Paul, Minn. PB - National Institute for Trial Advocacy KW - Pre - trial procedure KW - United States KW - Local KW - Motions Law N1 - Includes Program planner's guide; problem book (6 copies); and teacher's manual; "PTA01-14"; 1. Interviewing the client -- 2. Developing a defense strategy: answers and motions -- 3. Planning informal investigation and formal discovery -- 4. Introduction to written discovery -- 5. Deposition strategies and techniques -- 6. Preparing the deponent -- 7. Deposing the lay witness -- 8. The judge's role in discovery -- 9. Discovery from and about witnesses. -- 10. Deposing an expert -- 11. Negotiating a settlement -- 12. Advanced motion practice -- 13. Developing and using tangible evidence, pt 1. -- 14. Developing and using tangible evidence p. 2 ER -