Mastering the Web – Expert Witness Chronicle Takes A Quick Look Into How...
There are several avenues for an attorney to find an expert witness. While some would turn to a colleague who would know an expert, others would call the big referral agency to provide them with an...
View ArticleTestimony Prepared Solely For Litigation: Assessing The Fifth Prong Of The...
A district court can analyze more rigorously the admissibility of an expert’s testimony if the expert’s opinion was prepared solely for litigation as opposed to testimony flowing naturally from an...
View ArticleGuest Blogging As A Marketing Tool
Every time there is a discussion on expert witness marketing, the dichotomy between the ones who believe expert should market and the rest who believe they should not always manifests. Being a firm...
View ArticleGatekeeping Information on 948 new experts
1 Aaron Woolfson Telecommunications Order a Complete profile for this expert witness 2 Aaron J. Jones P.E. Materials/Met. Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Fire Investigation Order a Complete...
View ArticleExpert Witness Directory Rankings–A Daubert Analysis
Expert Witness Directories are one of the most popular ways for experts to market their services to attorneys. Many-a-times, they form the starting point for an attorney or paralegal who is looking to...
View ArticleChecking how expert directories fare in Google Search Results – Expert...
In my previous post, I had talked about Expert Witness Directory Rankings and how several factors apart from the amount of traffic that a website receives are important in determining which directory...
View ArticleHappy Holidays (And things to plan for 2013)
As we begin our journeys into a new year, I would like to take this opportunity to wish that you, your families and your friends have an excellent time celebrating the holidays! For those who plan to...
View ArticleAnalytically flawed and unreliable testimony has to be excluded, following...
FACTS EPlus filed an action against Lawson Software, Inc. alleging that Lawson had been infringing EPlus’ method and system claims. The jury found for EPlus and Lawson appealed, arguing that the system...
View ArticlePatents Expert Witness excluded for relying on Single Settlement Agreement to...
Intel was sued by AVM Technologies, LLC for allegedly infringing upon a patent involving a Dynamic logic circuit. To establish reasonable royalties, AVM retained the services of Larry Evans, an IP...
View ArticleExperience-Based Expert Testimony Need Not Meet Daubert’s Requirements:...
In a recent decision (Thompson v. Cooper), the Supreme Court of Alaska held that admissibility of expert testimony based on experience does not need to be subjected to the Daubert Test. While the Court...
View ArticleFlorida Legislature Adopts Daubert Standard for Expert Testimony
The Florida House and Senate have passed a Daubert bill, which now apparently awaits only the governor’s signature. After years of trying, Florida has, at least legislatively, become the country’s 27th...
View ArticleExpert Witness Encyclopedia – Bringing All Information About Experts Under...
Two months ago, we were looking at a long list of gatekeeping issues and it was a pain to find some of the decisions which defined the gatekeeping standard for several states. This is when we thought...
View ArticleNo Expert? No Trial.
In an unfortunate case of negligence and premises liability arising out of an on-campus rape committed against one of the resident students of the Carthage College, the 7th Circuit vacated the summary...
View ArticleAccident Reconstruction Expert Witness Testimony Based on EDSMAC4 gets...
The Montana Supreme Court recently (May 7, 2013) upheld a decision by the trial court to admit the testimony of an Accident Reconstruction Expert Witness who used a computer program to determine which...
View ArticleInsurance Expert Witness Opportunities in the next 120 days
Based on legal research, we have identified 20 insurance law related cases where the Plaintiff and the Defendants, both need to designate and disclose their expert witnesses in the next 120 days. You...
View ArticleLouisiana Court of Appeals uphelds admission of Forensic Accounting Expert...
The Court of Appeals of Louisiana, Third Circuit, in a recent unpublished opinion, upheld the trial court’s decision to admit the testimony of Daphne Clark, a forensic accounting expert witness....
View ArticleLost Profits Expert Witness Testimony was Improperly Admitted: 4th Circuit
The 4th Circuit, on Friday (May 31, 2013) vacated an award of $4 million in a defamation suit after finding that the expert testimony of the Plaintiff’s lost profits expert witnesses was not reliable...
View ArticleMedical Devices Expert Witness doesn’t need to be a doctor or an engineer:...
A “Medical Devices Expert Witness” is usually expected to have a background in either medicine or engineering. However, the United States District Court, S.D. Ohio, Eastern Division, on Thursday (May...
View ArticleDual-role testimony of law enforcement expert witness not prejudicial per se:...
In a recent drug trafficking case (U.S. v. White) that involved a police expert witness testifying additionally as a fact witness, the U.S. Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit held that such dual-role...
View ArticleOncology Expert Witness was erroneously excluded: 7th Circuit
Noting that the testimony of an oncology expert witness was erroneously excluded by the Wisconsin District Court in a products liability claim (Schultz v. Akzo Nobel Paints, LLC) the Court of Appeals,...
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