Deposition skills courses in law school serve dual goals. They respond to the demands of the profession for practice-ready law graduates, and meet the law school’s goal to provide skills instruction grounded in knowledge, values, and professionalism. Using principles of backward design, this presentation will focus on steps to create an effective stand-alone deposition course, and ways to incorporate deposition skills into in-house clinics, externships, and doctrinal classes. The essential skills and knowledge for a deposition course include: understanding how depositions relate to pre-trial and trial strategy, the ability to elicit detailed information on important topics, preparing a deposition outline, dealing with documentary evidence, addressing objections, and practical and ethical challenges when preparing a witness for deposition. In short, deposition training, with its emphasis on fact gathering and exhaustive questioning, is the final exam on Interviewing. Presenters will discuss the best way to teach these skills as an intensive short course or semester-long seminar. We will also suggest ways to incorporate deposition skills into a civil litigation clinic and doctrinal courses. Participants will practice effective deposition critique using video recordings of student depositions, and will leave the session with sample syllabi, student evaluation forms, and a simulation case (taken from a real clinic case) for use in a deposition course.