Emotions Run High When In-House Counsel Is Deposed

Role reversal, anxiety, self-doubt about previously offered legal advice, and the peculiar psychological process called “spectating” are among the issues that may need to be dealt with when in-house counsel is placed in the witness chair and deposed by outside counsel. Attorney Bradley J. Betlach, from the law firm Nilan Johnson Lewis, looks at what typically happens in this most challenging of legal scenarios, and how it can be managed.