Earlier this month the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a lengthy decision in the case of Seifert v. Balink, handing down the court’s first decision on the recently amended Wis. Stat. § 907.02 and, specifically, whether a medical expert’s opinions are reliable under Daubert.
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A medical-malpractice case — an area of litigation replete with expert testimony — recently spurred the Court of Appeals to examine how Daubert principles should be applied to medical experts.
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Jim Leatzow has heard the names.
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In the first Wisconsin case applying the Daubert standard on admissibility of expert witness testimony, the court of appeals explains “what the Daubert rule is and what it is not.”
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Read More »The language of law is rich and varied. Anyone who goes to law school learns a whole new vocabulary. And words, especially in statutes, are open to different meanings and interpretations. But are they open to different pronunciations?
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A recent Wisconsin Court of Appeals case in a mental commitment action may have significant implications for post-judgment modification cases in family law in this state.
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As jurors demand slicker, speedier, sound bite-like presentations of trial evidence, lawyers are hiring visual artists, computer graphic designers and illustrators to transform piles of documents into light, sound and images.
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The first two months of 2011 brought Wisconsin a new Legislature, a new governor and a wave of tort reform.
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Read More »It has been a little over four months since Daubert became the "law of the land" in Wisconsin with respect to the introduction of expert testimony.
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Read More »One of Gov. Scott Walker’s first accomplishments in office was to sign 2011 Wis. Act 2, adopting the Daubert rule for admission of expert testimony.
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Read More »On Jan. 31, 2011, the Legislature did something that the Wisconsin courts have resisted for years. It made Wisconsin a Daubert state for the purposes of admitting expert testimony.
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