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The William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, MN, is offering their second Expert Witness Training Academy this summer. Instructors will include judges, lawyers, and Mitchell professors who will instruct experts on how to dial their brilliance down to a level the average person can understand.

“We want to help expert witnesses understand how to communicate their science better in a variety of forums” says Professor John Sonsteng, who along with his colleagues developed the academy with a grant from the National Science Foundation.

More information: 888-962-5529

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Crime scene analysis expert witness John Wilson testified in defense of Dondray Fowler, accused of killing one man and wounding five people in Muskogee, AZ. Fowler has 30 years crime scene investigation experience and heads a state crime lab in Missouri. The expert testified that because of the location of cartridges, he believes Fowler was acting in self-defense.

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Finance expert witness Dr. Marsha J. Courchane testified that the home appraisal company eAppraiseIT gave inflated valuations to mortgage lender Washington Mutual in 2006 – 2007. Dr. Courchane, VP and Practice Leader, Charles River Associates, heads the Financial Economics Practice in the US and UK. She testified for the prosecution in the fraud case against eAppraiseIT and its parent company First American Corp.

New York Supreme Court documents: http://www.nycourts.gov/supctmanh/

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OSHA expert witness Michelle Copeland, President of Occupational Safety Resource Inc., writes this on Workplace Assessments:

Audits and program reviews are a critical and too often overlooked aspect of any effective management program, including safety management. They are tools that give you the feedback and information to accurately determine your actual needs, identify the gaps or weaknesses in your program, and achieve an increased measure of control and predictability in your safety and health process.

Read more: Michelle Copeland.

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Psychology expert witness Dr. Michael Flaum testified for the defense in the South Lee County, IA, case against Adam Pitman, who is accused in the death of his mother. Dr. Flaum is associate professor of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa and directs the Iowa Consortium for Mental Health Services. He described Pitman as intoxicated and delusional from snorting bath salts at the time he allegedly strangled his mother.

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Occupational safety expert witness Michelle Copeland, President of Occupational Safety Resource Inc., writes this on Exposure Assessment and Control:

Industrial hygiene monitoring is your primary tool in determining employee exposures to chemicals, noise, heat, radiation, and other workplace hazards. Accurate exposure determination enables you to ensure compliance with OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) regulations by implementing controls that are necessary, reasonable and effective.

Read more: Michelle Copeland.

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Night clubs expert witnesses may consult and testify on bars, lounges, and night clubs. With over 30 years experience in security and surveillance operations, including Security Director for the Sahara Tahoe and High Sierra resorts in Lake Tahoe as well as corporate security for Del E. Webb, Corp. in Nevada, security and surveillance consultant Alan W. Zajic writes that he does not believe a background check is the most important thing in a gaming security program. More important is how the business owner trains their employees.

Read more: https://www.jurispro.com/AlanZajicCPPCSP.

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Cancer expert Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS, spoke before the Senate Cancer Coalition saying that cancer medicine must transition to treatment targeted to individual patients and away from the usual standard treatments. McCormick is a professor at the UCSF Cancer Research Institute. His research focuses on signal transduction pathways in cancer cells and ways of treating cancer based on these pathways.