QUESTION-AND-ANSWER
question-and-answer. 1. The portion of a deposition or trial transcript in which evidence is
developed through a series of questions asked by the lawyer and answered by the witness. — Abbr.
Q-and-A. 2. The method for developing evidence during a deposition or at trial, requiring the
witness to answer the examining lawyer’s questions, without offering unsolicited information.
[Cases: Witnesses 236, 247. C.J.S. Witnesses §§ 406, 429.] 3. The method of instruction used in
many law-school classes, in which the professor asks questions of one or more students and then
follows up each answer with another question. — Also termed Socratic method. See SOCRATIC
METHOD , QUESTION OF CONSIDERATION [Blacks Law 8th]