Learn effective strategies for managing and impeaching lying witnesses during depositions and trials while upholding legal ethics and courtroom credibility.
Handling a lying witness – whether on deposition or on the witness stand at trial – requires both careful planning and consideration of your overall case strategy.
Experienced trial lawyer Paul Fraidenburgh gives expert guidance on what steps you should take when a witness you are examining strays from the facts to ensure that you maximize the benefits for the client you represent. Paul will share valuable tips that will help you with your examinations of all witnesses (lay and expert) in all settings (depositions and trial).
This program will benefit litigators of all experience levels.
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Partner and Business Trial Lawyer at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Paul Fraidenburgh is an accomplished trial lawyer, who focuses his practice on representing clients in high-stakes commercial litigation, arbitration and regulatory compliance matters. As lead counsel, Paul has tried to conclusion numerous high-stakes business disputes. He has prevailed on behalf of clients in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and at the state Supreme Court level. Paul represents clients ranging from government agencies to Fortune 100 companies across a wide range of industries, including technology, aviation, real estate, energy, sports and entertainment. Paul represented a health care district in the 2021 trial of a high-profile case in which the plaintiff claimed $9.1 million in lost rental income damages as a result of a multi-year dispossession from a 60,000 square foot office building, achieving a complete defense verdict and a judgment in favor of the health care district for more than $4 million. Paul also successfully briefed, argued, and prevailed in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, achieving dismissal of 8-figure claims against a government agency in November 2017. SilverWing at Sandpoint, LLC v. Bonner Cty., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 21970 (9th Cir. 2017). He has been recognized by Thomson Reuters as a 2023 “Stand-Out Lawyer of the Year” and by The Daily Journal as a “Top 40 Under 40” in 2018, and he is a member of the American Law Institute.
