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Best Practices for Preparing an Expert Witness for Deposition

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As a trial attorney, you’ll often enlist expert witnesses to evaluate claims, clarify complex evidence, write an expert witness report, and offer authoritative opinions. Because time and money can be tight during trial prep,...more

IMS Legal Strategies

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

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Realtime Depositions: Enhancing Legal Proceedings

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Nearly 150 years after Miles Bartholomew introduced the first shorthand machine, the various technologies and tools utilized to record court proceedings and legal matters continue evolving. Today, realtime deposition...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Proposed Changes to Federal Expert Evidence Rule Are Already Having Impact

Significant revisions to the federal rule governing the admissibility of expert evidence will go into effect December 1. The evidence rule changes appear to raise the bar slightly for admission of expert evidence, requiring...more

IMS Legal Strategies

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

DCI Consulting

[Webinar] Expert Summit for Employment Attorneys: Using IO Psychologists as Experts in Litigation - February 23rd, 2:00 pm - 3:00...

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Industrial/Organizational Psychologists (I/O) have provided consulting expert and testifying expert support in class action employment discrimination litigation for decades. These cases address alleged discrimination in a...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

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

2021 PTAB Year in Review: Analysis & Trends: Expert Bad Behavior: The Problem and Potential Solutions

Imagine sitting in a conference room with your carefully crafted set of questions for a deposition, and you are exploring the basis for an opposing expert’s opinions. But instead of giving thoughtful answers, the expert...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

2021 PTAB Year in Review: Analysis & Trends

[co-author: Jamie Dohopolski] Love it or hate it, ignore the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) at your peril. The introduction of the PTAB as part of the America Invents Act over ten years ago has forever changed...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Patent Owner Tip #18 for Surviving an Instituted IPR: Defending Depositions

In our penultimate patent owner tip for surviving an instituted IPR, we turn our discussion to defending the deposition of your expert. At this stage of the proceeding, your Patent Owner Response has been filed, and all the...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

Proskauer - Advertising Law

Court Gives Cold Shoulder to FTC’s False Advertising Claims Against Housing Insulation Company

In a dispositive decision during a bench trial, federal district court Judge Nora Fischer of the Western District of Pennsylvania found that the FTC failed to present any credible expert testimony to support its suit for...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Practice Pointer: Under Massachusetts Procedure, There’s No Right to Expert Depositions

Under Massachusetts procedure, a party has the right to compel an opponent to disclose its testifying expert’s opinions through interrogatories. But unlike federal procedure, a party under Massachusetts procedure must obtain...more

Butler Snow LLP

A New Look At The Doctor Deposition

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In the context of the practice of medicine, we are all very familiar with the Latin phrase primum est non nocere. It means “first, do no harm” and is the ethical guiding principle in the medical profession. Inherent in 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

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

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

4 Things You Must Know about AIA Trial Depositions

After the America Invents Act (AIA) passed with a vote of 304-177 in June 2011, inventors seeking patents had to be the first to file to lay claim to their innovations. As the first major shift in patent law since 1952,...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Episode 015: Confessions of a Business Appraiser: A Conversation with Chris Mercer

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In this episode of the Business Divorce Roundtable, Chris Mercer, one of the country’s leading business appraisers as well as a prolific author and frequent lecturer, shares what he calls “Confessions of a Reluctant Expert...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Declarant Must Be Made Available for Deposition in the United States - Square, Inc. v. REM Holdings 3, LLC

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Addressing the location of a deposition of patent owner’s declarant, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (PTO) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) concluded that, absent an agreement between the parties to...more

Carlton Fields

Legislature Amends Evidence Code Provisions Governing Admission Of Expert Testimony

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The Florida Legislature passed House Bill 7015, dealing with expert testimony, which has been signed into law by Governor Scott. Chapter 2013-107, Laws of Florida, amends Florida’s evidence code to conform to Rule 702 of the...more

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