TRIAL RUN: Stesha Emmanuel, left, attorney for LeClairRyan of Boston, "deposes" actor Chris Stahl during a workshop at the Litigation Academy. / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO
Providence attorney Matthew Parker is familiar with taking depositions, but a new program that debuted in mid-November gave him a crash course in deposition techniques that he’d been eager to try. The Litigation Academy – the brainchild of Chief Judge William E. Smith of the U.S. Federal District Court in Providence – held its first…