A Practice Note explaining the steps counsel should take to prepare to defend a nonexpert deposition in federal civil litigation, including examining the deposition notice, reading the applicable procedural rules on depositions, reviewing the parties' document productions and discovery disclosures, creating a witness prep binder, drafting an outline, and conducting a witness prep session to explain the rules of depositions, prepare the witness to testify, and ask mock deposition questions. This Note also identifies special considerations for certain deponents, such as senior executives and potentially difficult witnesses.