by Robert C. Clifford

Reduce the Credibility and Effectiveness of Your Opponent's Expert

Proficiency studies for many types of expert analysis show a disturbingly large number of mistakes. Intelligent probing can uncover many of these mistakes.

Let Robert Clifford’s Qualifying & Attacking Expert Witnesses show you how to dig deep for unreliable testimony, no matter how sterling the expert’s credentials.  The book details dozens of high-potential attacks, including:

• Failure to consider other causes
• Subjective testing
• Insufficient sample
• Anecdotal evidence
• Temporal relationship
• Erroneous extrapolation
• Research prepared for litigation
• And others

Perhaps no litigation task is more important than diluting the effect of the opposition’s expert. Qualifying & Attacking Expert Witnesses devotes 200 pages to tactics, cases, and checklists specific to these experts:

• Appraisers
• Contractors
• Criminologists
• Doctors
• Document examiners
• Economists
• Employment experts
• Insurance experts
• Linguists
• Psychologists
• Physical facts experts
• Transportation engineers

The book's organization makes it easy to find information you need and tactics that will work.  Example Q & A illustrate methods of attack specific to different types of experts.  Bulleted lists of practice-proven tactics are found every few pages.  Much of the book's advice is boiled down into step-by-step checklists.  Key points are well-supported with detailed relevant cases. 

Just a few of the tips and tactics found in the book include:

Selection

• Finding persuasive experts. §130

• Controlling expert witness costs. §151

• Cheap substitutes for experts. §152

• Avoiding conflicts of interest. §160

Discovery

• Deposition preparation. §202

• Deposition instructions for your expert. §211

• Disclosure of expert’s work product. §242

Trial

• Sample voir dire questions. §301.1

• Qualification questions that keep the jury focused. §334

•  Presentation checklist. §330

• Demonstrative evidence rules and considerations. §332

• Daubert tactics. §345.2

• Challenges to computer-generated information §346, government reports §346A, and industry standards §347

• Objections to cross-examination. §348

Attacking the expert

• Pretrial challenges to scientific expert testimony. §406

• Checklist for establishing unreliability. §415

• Preparing the expert witness trial binder. §422

• Checklist of bases for motion in limine. §423.1.4

• Grounds for disqualifying the opposing expert. §424 et seq

• Objections to direct testimony. §425

• Checklist for effective cross-examination. §431

• Fruitful areas of cross-examination. §433

• Tactics for showing lack of basis for opinion. §443

• Restricting demonstrative evidence. §470

Use expert witness testimony to your advantage, even your opponent's expert. This briefcase-sized book offers tactics, checklists and case law that make easy work of preparing to deal with expert witnesses from initial discovery to trial.

Updated annually.  ISBN 0-938065-39-4 Book price: $99.00

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"It is likely that the lawyer who has not read Robert Clifford’s book will not have met that high standard of careful preparation."
—C. Carlsen, Jr., Portland, OR

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