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IMS Legal Strategies

Should Your Gen Z Attorney Be Your Hot Seat Operator?

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Gen Z attorneys are often extremely valuable, hard-working additions to your trial team. We are sure many of our clients would agree, as we worked alongside quite a few truly impressive young trial attorneys....more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Junk Science in the Courtroom: Prevention is Better than Cure

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When scientific evidence is in play, it is often assumed that the most frequently cited articles are published in the most elite journals. However, this is not necessarily true. A journal is ranked according to its impact...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Storytelling and Stick Figures: Tips on How to Effectively Present Scientific Evidence in Mass Tort Litigation

Q: Could you describe the process of preparing expert witnesses for mass tort litigation? David L. Ferrera: All federal courts and most state courts require a written expert report, which informs the opposing counsel months...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Expert Witness Research Tips - DRI: Raising the Bar

When it comes to expert witnesses, young lawyers can add tremendous value to their team through research into the background of both their own and the opposing party’s experts. This research should be done as early as...more

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message

Being Useful to Jurors is No Accident (Tips for All Experts from an Accident Reconstructionist)

Experts have a tough job translating sometimes technical detail to lay audiences and working closely with a party to the litigation while still maintaining the role of “teacher” rather than “advocate.” Some excellent and...more

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message

Experts: Be Experienced, Confident, and Visual

Recently, I was running a mock trial exercise with three retired judges. Reviewing the testimony, one shared a skepticism toward the “hired-gun” engineers they had heard, and opined that what is “more important is the...more

Carlton Fields

Bullet-Point Update: Electronic and Federal Court Discovery Issues for the Week of July 31, 2017

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Use this when the other side tries to dig up dirt on your expert. Collett v. GEICO Cas. Co., 2017 WL 3336614 (E.D. La. Aug. 3, 2017) (denying motion to compel expert witness to testify about fraud allegations that had been...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Seventh Circuit Underscores Important Role for Pre-Certification Challenges to Expert Witnesses

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In order to certify a class action, it is the plaintiff’s burden to prove that all of the requirements of Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are satisfied. In some class actions, plaintiffs cannot proceed without...more

Cozen O'Connor

The Expert Report: Key Considerations

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Product liability cases often present challenging and complex issues which require the use of experts. If you are litigating in federal court, any expert you designate will be required to provide a written report. ...more

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The Use of Experts in International Arbitration: Selection of an Expert Witness

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In international arbitrations, litigators from the U.S. often find a bit of the familiar mixed in with equal or greater bits of the unfamiliar. (Whether they acknowledge or treat the latter as such, alas, varies by...more

Genova Burns LLC

Third Circuit Rejects Class Certification for Widener Law Grads

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A panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals refused to allow class certification for a group of Widener University School of Law Graduates who allege that the law school inflated postgraduate employment rate statistics in...more

Jaburg Wilk

Expert Witnesses: Who Needs ’Em?

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Clients often ask whether retaining an expert witness is necessary in their case. And they are wise to ask, because experts are a critical part of many cases, but not all. As attorneys, we often retain an expert “because we...more

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U.S. International Trade Commission Publishes Proposed Changes to Procedural Rules of Practice

The International Trade Commission proposed a series of new procedural rules, which were published in the Federal Register on September 24, 2015. This blog post provides a summary of the more notable proposed changes to the...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

[Webinar] Food & Beverage Class Action Advertising and Labeling Lawsuits - August 5, 12:00-1:00 Central

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Foley invites you to join us on Wednesday, August 5, 2015, to discuss recent class action litigation trends in food and beverage labeling and advertising. The presentation will review recent legal developments and...more

Butler Snow LLP

Litigation Strategy: Avoid the “Selfie” – Let the Expert be the Expert

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It’s human nature to think we’re the smartest person in the room or at the table. It’s also human nature, and a trap for lawyers, to feel like you have to prove that point in front of the client. It’s a real pitfall, when the...more

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