Once you’ve done the mental legwork and have candidates to consider as an expert witness, how do you choose the best one? Several considerations ...

Before I got the call about working as an expert witness in an employment-law matter, I'd never heard of an expert witness from the business world. The little I knew about the expert witness world ...

In their Trial Advocacy column, Ben Rubinowitz and Evan Torgan review certain time-tested trial techniques that can be used by attorneys to cross-examine an expert regardless of his field of expertise ...

It is commonly believed that competence in a particular field of expertise automatically translates to success on the witness stand. In reality, the scientific realm is often vastly different from the ...

THE RANGE OF ACCOUNTING ISSUES involved in court disputes today covers so many aspects of finance that CPAs of all types may be qualified to offer expert witness services in one or more areas. BEING ...

The author proposes a rule amendment to preclude a "redo" of expert testimony. Simply stated: If a witness is unavailable, and a de bene esse deposition is completed, that witness cannot become ...

While juries make decisions based on arguments by the prosecution and the defense, expert witnesses help them make more informed decisions. Expert witnesses are often central to the litigation process ...

Parties to a lawsuit often retain experts to testify at trial as to an opinion, which each side hopes will: Assist the judge or jury in understanding a complex or technical issue. Bolster a key ...

In this dramatization of transcripts from a legal deposition, a so-called “expert witness” fails to perform middle school math. Brett Weiner [email protected] VERBATIM “EXPERT WITNESS” Based on ...

In the aftermath of the guilty verdict in the trial of Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, a consistent element of many criminal trials came into sharp focus: the ...

What should we do when an expert witness provides incorrect or biased information in court? When people review exonerations of falsely convicted innocent people, bad forensic evidence and misleading ...