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To Daubert or
not to Daubert
A federal judge's decision to exclude expert testimony
may force hundreds of plaintiffs to drop their claims
against Pfizer Inc. that the anti-inflammatory drug Celebrex
caused them to suffer heart attacks or strokes. |
12-06 |
Quick
Guide to New Electronic Discovery Rules
Major revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure take
effect Dec. 1, governing discovery of electronically stored information. |
11-06 |
Florida
High Court Curbs Expert Testimony
Putting to rest a question that had divided the state's courts,
the Florida Supreme Court ruled Nov. 2 that an expert may not testify on
direct examination that he relied on consultations with colleagues or other
experts in forming his opinion. |
11-06 |
CAFC
OKs Expert Testimony on PHOSITA
In proving obviousness in patent litigation, expert testimony
may be used to establish the knowledge that a person of ordinary skill
in the art would have possessed at a given time, the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit ruled Sept. 6. |
9-06 |
Work
Product Ruling at Odds With ABA
Just 10 days after the American Bar Association voted for a rule to bar discovery
of communications between attorneys and their experts, the 6th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals became the second federal appellate court to require such
disclosure. |
9-06 |
Daubert
Ruling Fuels Thimerosal Debate
A federal court ruling excluding all expert testimony
that the drug-preservative thimerosal caused a minor child's
autism is likely to have repercussions well beyond the case in
which it came. |
9-06 |
Mining
a Business for IP Gold
Is your client mining the full commercial
worth of its patent portfolio? Probably not. Even within
major technology companies, veins of IP gold often
go undiscovered. |
7-06 |
Federal
Circuit OKs Fluid Dynamics Expert
Expert
testimony involving the science of computational fluid dynamics
(CFD) is admissible to prove patent infringement, the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided June 1. |
7-06 |
Lawyers
Love IMS Service, Results
Lawyers who use IMS ExpertServices are
so satisfied with the results that 100 percent of them would
recommend the company to a colleague. |
7-06 |
Cases
Hinge on Insurers' Duty of Good Faith and Fair Dealing
Insurance companies won one and lost one in two recent
appeals of multi-million-dollar punitive damages awards. |
6-06 |
Ruling
Clears Way for Computer Animations
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a
computer-generated animation is no doubt a powerful courtroom
tool. |
5-06 |
'Gatekeeper'
Review must be More Than Cursory
A federal judge's one-sentence conclusion that a witness qualified
to testify as an expert was not enough to show that he had
correctly exercised his "gatekeeper" function under
Daubert, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided. |
5-06 |
The
Se7en Deadly Expert Sins
Envy, sloth and gluttony may have little relevance
to the litigation arena, but lawyers have their own set of sins
they commit in working with expert witnesses, and they can be
just as deadly for a case or a client. |
5-06 |
IMS
Expert Services serves 89% of the AmLaw 100
IMS ExpertServices has broken new ground. As of January 2006,
89% of the AmLaw 100 are IMS clients. "Our reliable
delivery of unique experts has made us the premier expert
search firm in the country," explains Bill Wein, IMS
Sr. Vice President. |
3-06 |
Federal
Circuit Issues a Caution on Costs
Can a prevailing party in patent litigation recover the costs of preparing trial
exhibits that its expert witnesses used to explain its case to the jury and the
court? |
2-06 |
Policyholders
Chip Away at Flood Exclusions
After
every major disaster involving extensive flooding, politicians
and class-action lawyers take aim at the flood exclusion in homeowners'
policies, looking for ways to overcome decades of legal precedent
supporting the exclusion. |
1-06 |
Advocates'
Arguments Prove Instructive for Defense Lawyers
After
every major disaster involving extensive flooding, politicians
and class-action lawyers take aim at the flood exclusion in homeowners'
policies, looking for ways to overcome decades of legal precedent
supporting the exclusion. |
1-06 |
The
Two Most Common Mistakes Lawyers Make in Using IP Experts
The
two most frequent mistakes intellectual property lawyers make
while working with an expert witness are polar extremes of each
other, but either can severely undermine the strength of a case. |
1-06 |
We
Want to Hear, What Gets Your Goat?
All is well with the legal world, right? Your peers are
polite, judges are judicious and jurors are fair. Rules
require no reform, statutes are sound and case law is
consistent. You have no reason to complain about any
aspect of your practice. |
1-06 |
Are
Lawyers Picking the Wrong Experts?
In
choosing an expert in patent litigation, the lawyer's gut instinct
is often as important as the expert's scientific savvy. |
1-06 |
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