
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:
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Failure to consider
other causes
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Subjective testing
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Insufficient sample
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Anecdotal evidence
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Temporal
relationship
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Erroneous
extrapolation
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Research prepared
for litigation
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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:
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Appraisers
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Contractors
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Criminologists
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Doctors
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Document examiners
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Economists
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Employment experts
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Insurance experts
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Linguists
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Psychologists
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Physical facts
experts
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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
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Finding persuasive experts. §130
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Controlling expert witness costs. §151
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Cheap substitutes for experts. §152
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Avoiding conflicts of interest. §160
Discovery
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Deposition preparation. §202
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Deposition instructions for your expert. §211
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Disclosure of expert’s work product. §242
Trial
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Sample voir dire questions. §301.1
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Qualification questions that keep the jury focused. §334
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Presentation checklist. §330
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Demonstrative evidence rules and considerations. §332
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Daubert tactics. §345.2
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Challenges to computer-generated information §346, government reports
§346A, and industry standards §347
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Objections to cross-examination. §348
Attacking the expert
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Pretrial challenges to scientific expert testimony. §406
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Checklist for establishing unreliability. §415
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Preparing the expert witness trial binder. §422
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Checklist of bases for motion in limine. §423.1.4
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Grounds for disqualifying the opposing expert. §424 et seq
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Objections to direct testimony. §425
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Checklist for effective cross-examination. §431
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Fruitful areas of cross-examination. §433
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Tactics for showing lack of basis for opinion. §443
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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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