There is a point in most depositions where counsel stops asking what you did and starts asking what you did not write. He turns a page, pauses, and says: show me where it says that.
That move is the absence attack, and it is the hardest one to answer well — because you are being asked to defend a hole, and the instinct is to explain yourself. This module teaches you to own the gap in one sentence, name what the document actually was, and put the jury's attention back on everything the record does hold.
When you finish, you will be able to
01Recognize an absence attack the moment counsel points at a gap rather than a statement.
02Own an absence plainly — without apologizing for it, denying it, or defending a habit.
03Run one answer structure — own, role, record — across all six absence vectors.
04Name what your role actually required, and why a treating provider's foundation differs from a retained expert's.
05Walk the four corners of a note to show a jury what the record does contain.
06Frame a clinical non-action — no imaging, no referral — as a documented decision rather than an omission.
07State a causation foundation and then stop, without volunteering the limitation counsel is fishing for.
Roughly three hours of work, best taken across four or five sittings. Nothing here is passive — every screen asks you to decide something.