#213 Georgia Workers' Compensation Lawyer - Preparing for a Deposition in Your Work Injury?

Ty Wilson Law Podcast

Hello. My name is Ty Wilson. I'm a Georgia workers compensation attorney. And today what we're going to do is we're going to prepare you. We're going to give you a short version of preparing you for your deposition in a work injury claim. And so what that means is this is designed to give you something to look at right before you go into the deposition. You don't have a lot of time. You just need to know, really the essence of what you need to do and what you don't need to do. And so we will make longer videos with longer content on the times when you do have extra time to prepare for your depo.

So let's start off with answering the question before you can answer the question, you want to listen until they have completely asked the question. You do not want to cut them off. You do not want to stop them. You do not want to assume you know where they're going with that question. What you want to do is you want to listen, and as soon as you hear them, stop the question. You want to count in your mind 1000 and 1002. Give them a second in that 2 seconds or 3 seconds or as long as you want it to be. That is your opportunity to develop your answer and respond. You want to respond yes or no when you can. But there will be questions that you are required to provide more of a long form answer, such as “explain how you got hurt”. Well, you can't say yes, obviously. And so you want to keep your responses as short and succinct as possible.

The more you talk, the more doors you're going to open up, which will bring more questions from the opposing attorney. They're waiting there. They're listening. And if you go down a rabbit hole, they may take you down a rabbit hole may not mean anything, maybe a waste of time. It may be something that is very detrimental to your claim. And so it is best to keep things short, succinct respond to the question and the question only do not volunteer information. So I give three guidelines whenever you're going into a deposition. If they ask you a question that you do not understand, if you don't understand, you must have the wherewithal to let them know that you don't understand. The more important part is that you're not guessing at what it is that that attorney wants to know. You need to know for sure. You need to be very comfortable. That's what they're asking of you and then respond accordingly.

Number two, if they ask you something that you don't remember, you can tell them you don't remember. However, if you don't remember at your deposition, they are locking down your testimony. So that what you say in your deposit is what they're going to hold you to if there is a hearing. And so you can't remember something new if there is a hearing. So what if there's something that you know the answer is written back at your house? It's on a piece of paper. It's somewhere else. You can find it, but you don't know it now. What you can do is you can respond accordingly. I know I have that information at my house. I don't remember the specifics.
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