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| Robert Musante |
| Robert Musante is the nation's foremost teacher of deposition
cross-examination skills. As a lecturer in trial advocacy at
the University of California, Boalt Hall from 1984 to 1999,
and as the creator of these four unique and highly entertaining
seminars, he has taught the science and art of
taking KILLER! depositions to more than 29,000 litigators in 40 states and
11 state attorneys-general offices. A former prosecutor and accomplished civil trial attorney, Musante has also appeared many times as a trial commentator on local radio and national television. |
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| Teaching Experience: |
 Author and presenter of CLE seminar Attacking the "I don't know," "I don't remember," & "I do remember" (since 2007).
Author and presenter of CLE seminars Great! Adverse Depositions: Principles and Principal Techniques and Mastering the Toughest-to-Craft Credibility Arguments (both since 1993).
Author and presenter of CLE seminars Attacking the Expert's Opinion and Attacking the Expert's Pedestal (both since 1999).
Author and presenter of CLE seminar The Stupid Orthodoxy,
R.I.P. ( 2000).
Author and presenter of CLE seminar Preparing For -And
Defending Against- The KILLER! Adverse Deposition (2000).
Lecturer in Civil Trial Advocacy, University
of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall Law School, 1984-1999.
Continuing Education of the Bar panel
member for Direct and Cross Examinations and Preparing
For, Defending & Taking Depositions.
Teacher and featured speaker in advocacy skills
at Hastings College of Trial Advocacy.
Teacher and featured speaker in advocacy skills
at National Institute of Trial Advocacy.
Author of Musante's Maxims: The Discipline
of Deposition Cross-Examination ... to be published one of
these days. |
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 Background |
| 2002 - Present |
| Full-time, peripatetic teacher of the awesome
discipline of deposition cross-examination. |
| 1983-2001 |
• Law Office of Robert Musante, Walnut Creek, CA. Civil trial
practice with emphasis on personal injury and employment litigation (plaintiff and defense, mostly plaintiff ... more jury trials).
• Last jury trial: 1996 (won!).
• Last adverse deposition: December 2001 ("won!").
• Settled last case in 2001; closed "small-potatoes"
sole practice. (Said good-bye to interrogatories, requests for
documents, motions to compel, less-than-honest experts and the
rest.) |
| 1981-1983 |
| Maloney, Chase, Fisher & Hurst, San Francisco, CA, insurance
defense in construction and products liability cases |
| 1980-1981 |
| Deputy District Attorney, Alameda County, CA (Lots of jury
trials.) |
| 1979-1980 |
| Deputy District Attorney, Sacramento County, CA (Lots of
jury trials.) |
| 1978 |
| Juris Doctor, University of California at Berkeley,
Boalt Hall Law School |
| 1977-1978 |
| Investigator, San Francisco District Attorney's
Office, Special Prosecutions Unit, official corruption investigations |
| 1972-1976 |
| Police Officer, San Francisco Police Department,
patrol car and undercover narcotics investigations |
| 1972 |
| Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, University
of California at Davis |
| 1962 |
| "Most Reverent Altar Boy" (really). Our Lady
of Mt. Carmel grammar school, Redwood City, CA |
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