In some legal matters, it makes sense to hire an expert witness. The expert witness can help you with a variety of tasks pertaining to your case, from evaluating the strength of your claim to ...

When an expert witness takes the stand to testify, he is a courtroom performer with an important privilege. Other witnesses are allowed to deal only with facts they have observed; the expert is often ...

In Part I of his two-part series, Bob Genis reviews how the plaintiff s in negligence and malpractice cases can strategically require the defendant to appear at trial during the plaintiff’s direct ...

Being an expert witness is serious business. Anyone who takes the witness stand needs to have impeccable credentials and extensive experience in their field, as well as be objective and able to ...

Cole Miller remembers one case in particular. "He was a young man who was so egregiously injured that it turned his whole life upside down," recalls Miller, a consultant who serves as an expert ...

For those who accuse Judge Aaron Persky ’84 M.A. ’85 of favoring former Stanford freshman Brock Turner with a relatively light six-month sentence for sexual assault, the Turner case has sparked closer ...

This article examines the strategic use of dual-role expert witnesses—those qualified to address both liability and damages—in arbitration proceedings before the Financial Industry Regulatory ...

What should we do when an expert witness provides incorrect or biased information in court? When people review exonerations of falsely convicted innocent people, bad forensic evidence and misleading ...

In the aftermath of the guilty verdict in the trial of Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, a consistent element of many criminal trials came into sharp focus: the ...