Affidavits are fairly simple, straightforward documents, but nevertheless ones that demand a skilled legal professional’s touch to be effective.

In a court of law, an affidavit serves as a party’s request amid a case or dispute for the court to take a specific action on the party’s behalf.

Typically citing existing rules or precedents governing the proceedings, a lawyer typically begins the affidavit process by interviewing a deponent with compelling, meaningful accounts of events to which the affidavit relates, including any vital paper or electronic documentation, including but not limited to:

• Contracts

• Receipts

• Written correspondence

• E-mails

• Invoices

Typically, affidavits will be limited in scope to the deponent’s factual statements from personal knowledge and potentially other testimony that could be provided under oath.