Fucking lawyers ... [deposition video]

[NALEM]

I will qualify my opinion on lawyers .. as "fucking" lawyers by stating that many are not worth the toilet paper I wipe my ass with. On a rare occasion I have met and worked with some talented legal mercenaries.

Came across this video on Yahoo. Original article here



Enjoy or cry. Any of you that have sat through a deposition or two or three ... can relate.

[sperbonzo]

I'm not sure I understand the title of the thread. I also despise the vast majority of lawyers..... but the idiot that was vacillating about his answer was not actually a lawyer, he was the witness being deposed.




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[NALEM]

Originally Posted by sperbonzo

I'm not sure I understand the title of the thread. I also despise the vast majority of lawyers..... but the idiot that was vacillating about his answer was not actually a lawyer, he was the witness being deposed.

I read the background story on this case. The person being deposed represents the defendant (his employer - the public recorder's office) who is being sued. It has to do with extraordinarily high fees being charged by the recorders office to get a "copy" of public records.

His inability to answer the question, likely doesn't come from the fact that he is an absolute idiot. Instead it is caused by his anxiety to satisfy (and do what he was told by) his employers and their defense counsel who had prepped him in advance. They likely instructing him to avoid answering certain questions directly, and instead, ask or raise questions seeking clarification about the question being asked.

I do not know the terminology used, but I have seen this tactic used before to derail the deposition process, and to convolute the Q and A process, that in the end, waters everything down. Does that make more sense?

[mikesouth]

Originally Posted by NALEM

I read the background story on this case. The person being deposed represents the defendant (his employer - the public recorder's office) who is being sued. It has to do with extraordinarily high fees being charged by the recorders office to get a "copy" of public records.

His inability to answer the question, likely doesn't come from the fact that he is an absolute idiot. Instead it is caused by his anxiety to satisfy (and do what he was told by) his employers and their defense counsel who had prepped him in advance. They likely instructing him to avoid answering certain questions directly, and instead, ask or raise questions seeking clarification about the question being asked.

I do not know the terminology used, but I have seen this tactic used before to derail the deposition process, and to convolute the Q and A process, that in the end, waters everything down. Does that make more sense?

Dead on and the terminology you refer to is called obfuscation