The Interrogators Guide to Depositions, Investigations, & Discovery: What Civil Trial Attorneys Can Learn from the World’s Best Interrogators

Captain John Morgenstern served in many roles in America’s War on Terror during his military career as a JAG officer in the U.S. Army.

While overseas, he saw the most effective and successful interrogation and investigation methods, and during his civilian law career, which includes defending officers accused of civil rights violations, he’s developed expertise on public law enforcement methods.

In this guide for civil trial lawyers and investigators, he shares the most effective and appropriate ways of communicating with witnesses and deponents to obtain truthful, reliable, and verifiable testimony and evidence to help make your case.

Morgenstern also examines historical, time proven methods of gaining information, including the techniques used by the father of the U.S. intelligence gathering system, Hanns Joachim Scharff, during World War II.

You’ll also learn how to use personality profiles, read body language, and exploit other indicia to conduct effective depositions and interviews, including with children, disabled and infirm individuals, and uncooperative witnesses.

Get the practical skills you need to prepare for depositions, and maximize your chances of enjoying productive encounters with witnesses with The Interrogators’ Guide to Depositions, Investigations, & Discovery.

John Morgenstern, Esq., is a top-rated Philadelphia attorney. In his prior military career, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal in Iraq in 2004. He is rated AV(R) Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell(R), the highest possible rating for both legal ability and ethical standards, and has been named among America's Top 100 Civil Defense Litigators (PA). He lives in Wilmington, Delaware, with his wife and their two children.