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5 Tips for Med Mal Expert Testimony from a Hot Seat Veteran

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As a presentation technology consultant, I have been sitting in the hot seat for almost 25 years. I average one trial a month with about 75% being medical malpractice (med mal) cases. I work with both plaintiff and defense...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

No, Courts Cannot Just Adopt A Court Appointed Expert’s Opinion Without a Cross Examination

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The Rules of Court clearly allow a Family Part Judge to appoint their own expert on any issues, whether custody or economic issues, in order to aid the court in making a decision on an issue before the Court. The Court rule...more

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Neurosurgeon’s Expert Opinions in Trial Against a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Were Admissible as Plaintiff Opened the...

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Waechter v. Laser Spine Institute, LLC, 8th Dist. Cuyahoga No. 112022, 2023-Ohio-3715 - The plaintiff brought an action against a certified registered nurse  anesthetist (CRNA), alleging she was negligent in hyperextending...more

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Chemical Engineering Expert Witness Experience & Discovery – Episode 48

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Chemical engineering expert and IMS Elite Expert Terry Livingston discusses the role of an expert witness and the advantages of working with experts early in discovery. Listen, watch, and/or read the transcript below. (Part 1...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Deposition Testimony Fell Short of Proving Fraud Against Insurer

A prior blog post discussing effective cross-examination of expert witnesses during a deposition noted that litigators have an important decision to make when favorable, but unexpected, testimony is extracted from a...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Deposition Cross-Examination of Expert Leads Court to Dismiss Malpractice Claim

We recently wrote on strategies for effectively cross-examining expert witnesses, noting that litigators can make good use of deposition time by exploring in detail the facts supporting the expert’s opinion. While it is...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Effective Cross-Examination of Experts During Deposition

Although it’s undoubtedly true that patent litigators have deep expertise in their corner of the scientific world and Texas oil attorneys could teach a college geology class, the fact remains that most litigators do not share...more

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message

The Wrapper and the Contents: Cross Their Expert on Both Levels

One trait of jurors is that, at the start of a case at least, they are not already savvy about the case’s subject matter. So, how do they learn? Through expert testimony. They won’t necessarily just sign-on to an expert’s...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

CVC Opposes Broad's Motion to Exclude Evidence and Broad Files Reply

Late last month, Junior Party University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (hereinafter, "CVC") and Senior Party The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Patent Owner Tip #2 for Surviving An Instituted IPR: Don’t Swing for the Fences in IPR Depositions

As discussed in our previous post, one of the most critical tasks for Patent Owners during the Inter Partes Reviews (“IPR”) discovery period is deposing the Petitioner’s expert. Since IPR depositions are treated differently...more

Butler Snow LLP

Solving the Problem of Daubert’s “Shaky but Admissible Evidence”: An Amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 May Be Forthcoming

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In the face of extraordinary challenges, 2020 has yielded profound developments within the scientific community: from the accelerated development and approval of highly effective and safe vaccines normally years in the making...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Health Care

Defendant Physician can be Cross-Examined With His Disclosure and ACR Guidelines: Hinshaw's Annual Guide to Key Illinois Medical...

Can the trial court properly bar plaintiff from introducing defendant radiologist's Rule 213(f)(iii) disclosure as an admission against interest, or questioning him about the American College of Radiology (ACR) practice...more

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Effectively using experts in IP Litigation – Part 2: Practise

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In intellectual property litigation, the outcome of many high stakes cases has turned on expert testimony. It is therefore important for a litigator to spend time and effort to properly identify, select, and prepare the...more

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Even At A Default Hearing, An Expert Report Is Inadmissable Hearsay If The Expert Doesn’t Testify

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Very often, uncertified expert reports are attached to certifications and courts are asked to accept them though there is no ability to cross examine the expert, etc. Sometimes, that even happens at a default or other...more

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Science Should Lead the Law: Amending FRE 702 to Let Science Guide Legal Outcomes

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The Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules will continue this fall its ongoing discussions on amendments to Federal Rule of Evidence (FRE) 702. The two possible amendments being considered for FRE 702 include...more

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ITC 337 Quarterly Insider Q2 2020

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Goodwin’s 337 Quarterly Insider remains the premiere publicly available source for keeping up to date on all meaningful decisions coming out of the Commission. Please find below Goodwin’s insights on the months of April, May,...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

CVC Files Motion to Exclude Broad Evidence; Broad Opposes

The latest installment in the cat-and-mouse game of deciding priority in Interference No 106,155 between Senior Party The Broad Institute, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (collectively,...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Judge Hellerstein Allows Damages Expert Testimony as “Posture” Isn’t Everything

On January 14, 2020, United States District Court Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein (S.D.N.Y.) denied Plaintiff Michael Philip Kaufman’s motion to exclude testimony from Defendant Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”)’s damages...more

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PTAB: Lawyers Permitted to Confer with Witnesses to Prepare Redirect

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Addressing the scope of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) guidelines that prohibit lawyers from conferring with their witness during cross-examination, the PTAB designated as precedential a 2014 decision permitting lawyers...more

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Live Testimony Remains Important in ITC Investigations

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When parties jointly stipulate to witness statements rather than live direct and cross examination, one might expect the ITC to be receptive to their agreement—after all, such stipulations may save time and resources for...more

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Trial Practice Guide Updates – Multiple Petitions, Claim Construction, and PO Testimonial Evidence

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On July 15, 2019, the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) published a second update to the AIA Trial Practice Guide (TPG) (“2nd Update”), providing additional guidance for trial practice before the Board. The...more

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Precedential PTAB Order Addresses Witness Examination

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The PTAB panel in Focal Therapeutics, Inc. v. SenoRx, Inc., Case IPR2014-00116 (PTAB July 21, 2014) (Paper 19), provided certain clarifications with regard to the ability to confer with witnesses during examination. This...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Rooms with a View: Cross-Examining Experts in Depositions - BB&K Partner Mark Easter Walks Us Through the House of Depositions in...

If there is any activity in litigation that I do find — and I hate to use this word — “fun”, it is taking an expert witness deposition — especially the key expert on the other side, which in my practice is usually their...more

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Expert Witnesses: Effective Questioning - Litigator Scott Ditfurth Shares Best Practices in Riverside Lawyer

You have completed your discovery, you have designated your expert witnesses, and you have even deposed the other side’s experts. Now what? One of the tougher skills in conducting trials is being able to effectively conduct a...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

PTAB Denies Request to Cross-Examine Experts Because Declarations Were Prepared for Other Proceedings and Were Not “Critical”...

In an ongoing inter partes review (IPR) proceeding, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) denied Petitioner Nestlé Healthcare Nutrition, Inc.’s request to cross examine two expert witnesses after Patent Owner...more

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