A pre-recorded streaming VIDEO replay of the October 2017 live seminar, The Survivor’s Guide to Expert Witnesses: From Selection Through Trial.
Topics covered include:
- Rules and procedures regarding the use of experts
- Learn how to best select, prepare, and utilize experts
- Consider your expert through the eyes of the jury—as told by a jury expert
- Hear what the judges think about what works and what doesn’t
Almost every lawyer now utilizes experts in virtually all cases, criminal and civil, that go to trial or are disposed of by motion and in many cases that settle. Lawyers who try business, construction, civil rights, intellectual property, or most other civil cases increasingly consider how best to use experts at every stage of the proceedings. Prosecutors increasingly rely on scientific evidence to prove cases, which means defense lawyers must have access to experts to be able to respond to the science. Judges, most of whom do not come from science and engineering backgrounds, are increasingly called upon to act as gatekeepers under Daubert and its progeny for both scientific and non-scientific experts.
The possibility that your expert may now be critically injured at any stage of the proceeding—and eventually not permitted to testify—has reshaped the paradigm of expert selection, the drafting of a report, and the manner in which lawyers prepare their experts to meet evidence and procedural requirements and to testify in depositions and trial. And the possibility that an opponent’s expert might be the one critically injured means that lawyers use their experts to assist them in attacking opposing experts. Today lawyers choose their experts earlier than before, work with them more closely than before, and rely on them more than just to testify.
This program addresses the new paradigm. It walks you through every aspect of expert selection, preparation, and testimony. Emerge from this intense and varied program with more confidence and new insights on how to manage one of the most important considerations in dispute resolution today.