Whether you are about to retain an expert witness or about to cross-examine one, you want to learn everything you can about the expert’s experience and background. A new service, Expert Witness Profiler, helps you do exactly that. It provides you with a dossier that covers everything from the expert’s…
The Top 10 Expert Witness Rulings of 2009
A piece I wrote, The Top 10 Expert Rulings of 2009, is published in the e-newsletter of IMS ExpertServices. I review my picks for the year’s 10 most important appellate opinions involving the admissibility of expert opinions and the procedural formalities surround their use. Let me know of others you think I should…
Top Five Expert Rulings (So Far) of 2009
Halfway through, 2009 is already shaping up to be a year of significant appellate rulings involving expert witnesses. An article I wrote for the e-newsletter of IMS ExpertServices looks back over the first six months of 2009 and highlights the five most important expert rulings handed down this year — at least so far:
Proposed Lawyer’s Code of Expert Ethics
The use of expert witnesses in litigation has skyrocketed. Have our ethics rules kept pace? I have posted an article, Proposed: A Lawyer’s Code of Expert Ethics, at the Web site of IMS Expert Services, that sets out a draft of a proposed code. The idea is to generate discussion about whether such…
Top 10 Expert Witness Cases of 2008
I wrote this for IMS ExpertServices: Top 10 Expert Witness Cases of 2008. I read a lot of cases and heard from a variety of sources. Let me know if you agree with my picks or if there are others you would add.…
When Your Expert Has a Blog …
Jurors do it. Litigants do it. But when happens when experts do it? The “it” in question is blogging, and the issue is what impact it may have on a trial. While I’ve seen several articles dealing with jurors blogging or litigants blogging, I had not seen any about experts blogging — until now. I…
To Daubert or not to Daubert?
That is the question addressed in a recent Connecticut Supreme Court case, as I report in an article recently published on the Web site of IMS ExpertServices. Excerpt:
…The defective ladder is a much-maligned icon of products liability law. But when an engineering expert gives his opinion on why a ladder fell, is