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How trial lawyers sabotage their own experts
Attorneys will sometimes control the evidence they give to their expert in hopes of shaping the expert’s opinion to what is consistent with what they want,” Michael Kaplan, a Los Angeles forensic valuation expert who spoke at the conference, said in an interview. Starting with hiring, an attorney can unknowingly sabotage his or her own […]
Databases assist expert witness research
Last year, LexisNexis acquired IDEX, a database of more than 1 million records on more than 200,000 legal experts. And in July, TASA Group, a Pennsylvania-based expert witness consulting and referral firm, introduced its “Challenge History Report,” a service aimed at helping attorneys check past challenges to the admission of expert witness testimony. Attorneys can […]
Grief expert aids wrongful death
Complex grief can manifest itself in a variety of ways that may seem strange to outsiders — from a mother who is furious at her daughter for dying to a husband and wife who blame each other for their son’s death. Hall, a partner at Hall, Sickel, Frie & Mims, a nine-lawyer firm in Reston, […]
Eight Tips from the ‘Expert Experts’
1 Hire as early as possible. According to fire-origin expert Ted Pagels of Green Bay, “I always say, the warmer the scene the better. I’m often called to the scene when the fire department is still doing its work. It’s very important to me from the standpoint of preserving evidence.” In civil cases, for example, […]
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Case Digests
- Termination of Parental Rights
- First Amendment Rights
- Termination of Parental Rights
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- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
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- Sentencing
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