deposition-prep

A deposition prep outline identifies the witness's role and stance, then structures direct or cross-examination topics by extracting relevant documents and organizing favorable facts, unfavorable facts, and impeachment materials to support targeted challenges with accurate evidence citations.

Preparing impeachment materials involves extracting documents authored by or mentioning the witness from loaded case files, then structuring them alongside favorable and unfavorable facts to support cross-examination planning with verbatim quotes and evidence-linked citations.

Yes, you can generate a witness prep outline for both direct and cross examination by identifying the witness's stance—whether adverse, own, neutral, or unit party—and applying the stance-specific question framework to structure the examination topics accordingly.

Yes, you need to load case theory context from a configured CLAUDE.md file before creating a deposition pre-trial outline, as the outline is built by structuring key facts and evidence citations around that specific case theory.

When exact quotations cannot be verified during deposition outline building, the system enforces verbatim quoting rules and marks unverified text with placeholders, ensuring citation-preserving discipline and evidence-linked accuracy throughout the outline.

The best way to structure unfavorable facts in a deposition outline is to extract all relevant documents mentioning the witness, then organize those facts alongside favorable facts and impeachment materials using a witness stance-specific question framework to plan targeted cross-examination challenges.