“A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it.” -- John Henry Wigmore

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As noted in my previous column, there are enormous gaps between a witness’s real-world experiences and those in the strange world of being a witness.

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Experts can be the bane of a trial lawyer’s existence, but they can also be saviors.

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Lawyers care about an expert’s credentials, how the expert’s opinions support their case, and the expert’s ability to withstand cross-examination. Experts care about their reputation and how to balance objectivity with assisting their client’s case. Jurors just want to figure out what the heck is going on.

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An expert, per Oscar Wilde, is “an ordinary man away from home, giving advice.” He’s probably being well compensated, too.

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As the owner of a Chicago jury research firm, I’ve seen a number of lawyers make the same mistakes and misjudgments countless times over the years.

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How do you choose an expert witness? Many attorneys ask their friends, post a request to an online plaintiffs’ or defense list-serve, pay a firm that supplies expert witnesses, or troll for professors on the websites of local colleges.

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Expert witnesses may be litigation’s best example of a necessary evil: You can’t make a case without them, but they can blow holes in budgets.

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During her recent defense of a client accused of sexually assaulting a child, attorney Donna J. Kuchler was reminded of the minimal threshold for someone to qualify as an expert witness in Wisconsin.

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Starting Dec. 1, there was a significant change to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for expert witness reports.

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