Articles Posted in General Announcements

Pesticides expert witnesses may give opinions regarding pesticide contamination, pesticide products, and pesticide pollution. According to the International HCH and Pesticides Association, it is very difficult to estimate to assess the real extent of the obsolete pesticides problem, as only a limited number of field investigations have been made globally, but the best preliminary guess gives the estimate of over 300,000 tons world wide. IHPA promotes the management of pollution problems stemming from the production and use of HCH and other unwanted pesticides worldwide.

Read more: http://www.ihpa.info/

The Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Trial Advocacy Section on Monday, Oct. 8 presents its “TAP (Trial Advocacy Project): Expert Witness Workshop.”

According to the LACBA meeting announcement, “The Expert Witness Workshop” provides introductory and advanced level instruction on how to use expert witnesses in civil and criminal actions, with special emphasis on expert testimony.

According to the announcement:

Paralegal Knowledge Institute is offering a free one hour webinar Dispute Resolution and eDiscovery October 30, 2012. The instructors are Yoav M. Griver, Esq., Partner at Zeichner Ellman & Krause LLP and Daniel Garrie, Esq, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Legal Technology Risk Management and the Journal of Cyber Warfare. They co-authored the book, Dispute Resolution and eDiscovery.

More info: http://www.paralegalknowledge.com/eDiscoveryDisputeResolution

Patents expert witnesses are qualified to testify on software patents, invention patents, and international patents, as well as related issues. In The Foreman’s Aha Moment in Apple v. Samsung Was Based on Misunderstanding Prior Art, Groklaw discusses how the Apple v. Samsung jury reached their verdict.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120828225612963

Trucking expert witnesses may write reports and testify on the Department of Transportation, truck driver qualifications, and federal motor vehicle safety standards, as well as related issues.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will be working on 29 new rules over the next two years which include one regarding electronic logging devices.

Read more: http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/

In Buying a Foreclosure? Watch Out for These 5 Landmines, residential real estate expert Brendon DeSimone writes for Zillowblog on what to expect in a foreclosure sale. Mr. DeSimone is a realtor & HGTV real estate expert who has collaborated on multiple real estate books. and his expert advice is regularly sought out by print, online and television media outlets like FOX News, CNBC and Forbes.

Read more: http://www.zillow.com/blog/.

The Paralegal Knowledge Institute is presenting a one hour webinar on The Use Of Facebook And Other Social Media in Litigation September 12, 2012.

Few people are unfamiliar with social media. To some people it means Facebook, to others it means Twitter or YouTube, and to still others, it’s everywhere they can post their thoughts freely. Yet, social media litigation is still in its infancy.

Social media can be used in employment cases, product liability, family law, workers compensation – just about anywhere. What do you need know and where do you begin?

Internet expert witnesses may testify on issues involving cyber-squatting, spam, email, websites, and related matters. In the news this week, the Federal Trade Commission has fined Google $22.5M for violating an earlier privacy settlement with the federal agency. The FTC charged Google with misrepresenting to users of Apple Inc.’s Safari Internet browser that it would not place tracking “cookies” or serve targeted ads to those users. More information about the FTC case can be found at the Tech@FTC blog.

Copyrights expert witnesses may testify on copyright infringement, copyright notice, and copyright limitations. In the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Electronic Arts sued Zynga this week for copyright infringement stating that Zynga copied the game The Sims Social in creating The Ville. EA is the second largest U.S. video-game maker. Packaged video game sales have decreased as users move to games like The Sims Social and The Ville which are played on social sites.

The Paralegal Knowledge Institute is offering a free one hour webinar on Dispute Resolution and eDiscovery, July 31, 2012.

Today, lawyers, neutrals and clients are spending more money and time on electronic discovery. Increasingly, these parties confront electronic discovery outside the court systems with the growing use of alternative methods of dispute resolution – arbitration, mediation, special masters.

This webinar gives you a better grasp of electronic discovery and its application to mediation, arbitration, special master proceedings or other dispute resolution forums. It introduces attendees to best practices when mediating electronic discovery issues and presents various tools and strategies practitioners can employ when engaged in electronic discovery mediation.