Is the expert qualified?
Knowledge, skill, experience, training or education.
Is the expert’s testimony reliable?
Daubert factors: Can it or has it been tested? Peer reviewed? Error
rate? Standards and controls? Generally accepted in the scientific
community? And, other factors.
Exclusion of expert’s testimony: Summary judgment (higher burden -
moving party must establish no genuine issue of material fact). Daubert
challenges (lower burden, non-moving party has burden of establishing
proper foundation for admission by preponderance of evidence).
Selection of Experts.
Word of mouth: client; authors of articles in the field; college
professors; other lawyers.
The internet.
Expert witness services.
Assessing Expert: check out his background. Prior testimony and
articles.
Interview the expert. Check out how they are going to do. Always eyeball
the expert.
Preparation.
Provide expert with all materials of any value in the case. Visit the
scene (expert now becomes a fact expert). Show him the product. Show
him other side’s expert deps and reports.
Determine bases for expert’s opinions. Theme of case. Cross-examine.
Direct Examination.
Organize the order of the testimony. Foundation re cv. Purpose of
testimony and issues addressed and not addressed. Sources.
Conclusions. Bases. Restatement of conclusions.
Qualify Expert: full explanation of cv. Specific qualifications for
case. Material reviewed. Stmt of conclusions. PPT, blowups, animations,
drawings, etc.
Questions on Direct: go thru qualifications; go thru specific exposure
to issues in case; illustration of procedure or technique involved; use
of models; use of drawings; why done?; if varied from procedure at
issue, then why?; explain causation factors.
Example: Reconstruction expert – establish facts of accident;
examination of scene; meaning of facts and evidence from scene; skid
marks equal speed and why?; damage equals speed and why?; calculations
performed before jury on board or chart.
Warts: expose them on direct; such as exorbitant fees.
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