When working with an inexperienced expert witness, they will need to be prepared for deposition the same as a lay witness. For example, the equipment and machinery expert witness working on your case will be conversant in their field but will need to know that: They are under oath. They…
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Security Expert Witness On Apartment Building Security Part 2
In Finding a Remedy For Renters, security expert witness John a. Harris writes: In most inadequate-security suits, then, the first step in establishing foreseeability is to examine the criminal history of the property. Review reports of calls for police service to find how many residents reported crimes on the premises…
DNA Expert Witness On Scientific Evidence
DNA expert witness Dan E. Krane of Forensic Bioinformatics, Inc. on scientific evidence: What makes scientific evidence so powerful in court is very simple: it’s supposed to be scientific. That means that it is supposed to be objective and completely independent of the subject of an investigation (a suspect or…
Security Expert Witness On Apartment Building Security Part 1
In Finding a Remedy For Renters, security expert witness John a. Harris writes: When crime occurs in a residential apartment building, a security expert witness can help you evaluate whether the victim has a viable case against the property owner… Security is one of the foremost problems facing apartment-community owners…
Lessons on Cross-Examination
In Your Witness, Sam Adam shares eight lessons from a lifetime as a Cook County criminal lawyer. 1) Look at the trial itself as an entity rather than as a collection of witnesses. Remember that the ultimate purpose of cross-examination is to get those gold nuggets for closing argument. Know…
Expert Witness Marketing
Writing an article is one of the best educational marketing tools available to you as an expert witness. In deciding what topic about which to write, answer questions such as these in your article: • What are the key issues in your field, and how should an expert be able…
How Attorneys Can Best Utilize Their Medical Expert Witnesses #11
In How Attorneys Can Best Utilize Their Medical Expert Witness: A Medical Expert’s Perspective, Dr. Vernon M. Neppe MD, PhD, FRSSAf, FAPA, writes on Medical Court Testimony: The Plan of Attack: Teaching the expert how to avoid pitfalls The attorney needs to ensure that the expert understands the tricks that…
Economics Expert Witness On Google
In So when do we get it over with and declare Google a monopoly?, Charles Cooper on CNet.com quotes antitrust expert witness Richard Schmalensee, of MIT’s Sloan School of Management. ‘There are the standard numbers people throw around but I think most people would say you have to decide whether…
How Attorneys Can Best Utilize Their Medical Expert Witnesses #10
In How Attorneys Can Best Utilize Their Medical Expert Witness: A Medical Expert’s Perspective, Dr. Vernon M. Neppe MD, PhD, FRSSAf, FAPA, writes on Medical Court Testimony: The Plan of Attack: Teaching the expert how to avoid pitfalls The attorney needs to ensure that the expert understands the tricks that…
Louisiana Expert Witness Reform
PointofLaw.com on expert witness reform: It’s not as if the Bayou State regularly produces good news on lawsuit reform, but a new measure applauded by Fred Shumate, executive director of Louisiana Lawsuit Abuse Watch, sounds like an exception: S.B. 308 “would establish a uniform system for eliminating ‘junk science’ and…