| The A to Z Guide to Expert Witnessing is the comprehensive work on expert witnessing. The topics covered include civil procedure, evidence, qualifications, CV writing, forming and expressing opinions, report writing, testifying skills, marketing, fee setting, billing, collections, ethics, privileges, discovery, avoiding abuse and much more. It features 24 concisely written chapters, 26 appendices, hundreds of examples with easy to read summary head notes, priceless practice pointers and a detailed index.
You will learn:
- How to best connect with and persuade a jury,
- How to market yourself professionally and cost-effectively,
- Premium fee-setting, billing and collection techniques,
- Relevant rules of civil procedure and evidence,
- Testifying skills,
- Expert witness risk management,
- How to handle abuse by attorneys,
- How to maintain high ethical standards,
- How to bullet-proof your CV and written reports,
- How to meet challenges under Daubert,
- The limits of discovery and privilege, and much, much more
Table of Contents
- Overview
- Fundamental elements of a lawsuit
- The discovery process
- Anatomy of a civil trial
- Evidence
- Qualifications
- Bulletproofing an expert CV
- Properly forming & expressing opinions
- Methodology
- Bulletproofing an experts report
- Connecting with the jury
- Preparing to testifying at deposition & trial
- The expert deposition
- Direct examination
- Cross-examination
- What clients look for in an expert
- How attorneys locate expert witnesses
- Marketing an expert witness practice
- Fees, billings & collections
- Expert witness liability & risk management
- Privilege, work product, & discovery
- Communicating with counsel
- Ethics & the expert
- Handling abuse
Appendices
- CV quality control checklist
- Report quality control checklist
- Deposition areas of inquiry
- Areas of inquiry during cross-examination
- Complaint
- Answer
- Answers to interrogatories
- Request for the production of documents
- Sample subpoena duces tecum schedule
- Deposition transcript
- Referal organizations
- Expert witness directories
- Legal journals & other publications
- Forensic organizations
- Bar & other legal associations
- Federal rules of evidence
- Select federal rules of civil procedure
- Model fee schedules and agreements
- Model bills
- Model CVS
- Model forensic reports
- Model consulting agreement
- Model marketing letters
- Fee survey
- Attorneys rules of ethics
- Expert witness practice consultants
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