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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The supply chain expert witness can opine on supply chain management, product distribution, returns management, and supply chain logistics. According to Wikipedia: A typical supply chain begins with ecological and biological regulation of natural resources, followed by the human extraction of raw material and includes several production links, for instance;…
Insurance expert witness Guy Kornblum is author of Do Lawyers Really Understand What They Need to Do to Prepare For Mediation? After a recent Mediation Roundtable, here are Kornblum’s thoughts concerning mediation: What I heard shocked me: Lawyers don’t know how to prepare for a mediation, and most of the…
Expert testimony is permissible in a wide range of areas when the subject matter is beyond the knowledge and experience of the jury. For example, the medical expert witness’s testimony is needed to establish if the appropriate standard of care was breached. In malpractice cases, the testimony of experts may…
Insurance expert witness Guy Kornblum is author of Do Lawyers Really Understand What They Need to Do to Prepare For Mediation? After a recent Mediation Roundtable, here are Kornblum’s thoughts concerning mediation: What I heard shocked me: Lawyers don’t know how to prepare for a mediation, and most of the…