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Top
10 Expert Witness Cases of 2008
It is that time of year when pundits, critics and reviewers compile their Top 10 lists of the year's best and worst. |
12-08 |
Legal
Tsunami Is Coming, Batten Down the Experts
What did they know and when did they know it? That is the
question likely to be asked of lenders, borrowers, investors
and insurers in courtrooms across the country as lawyers
and litigants try to untangle the roots of the financial
crisis that has undermined the economy and unsettled the
nation. |
11-08 |
Whose
Side Are You On?
May an expert witness switch sides in a lawsuit? Unlike the
lawyers in a case, no rule expressly stops an expert from "hopping
the fence." After all, the expert's allegiance is to
the truth, not to any one party, right? |
10-08 |
Guide
to E-Discovery Resources on the Web
The December 2006 revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,
addressing discovery of electronically stored information, underscored
the fact that no lawyer today can afford to ignore e-discovery. |
09-08 |
Expert
Reports: Should Lawyers Keep Hands Off?
Hands off or hands on? That is the question for litigators
and experts alike as to the lawyer's role in writing the
expert's report. |
09-08 |
Expert
Blogs: Loose Lips Sink…Trials?
Experts in virtually every field of art and science are blogging
these days. Some blog as an academic or scholarly exercise.
Others do it in order to help market their expertise. |
08-08 |
Prepping
an Expert: How Far is Too Far?
At what point does preparing an expert to testify cross
over into coaching? And at what point does coaching cross
the line into unethical activity? |
07-08 |
Ethics:
Hiring Experts You Don't Plan to Use
Do lawyers ever retain experts just to lock them out from
being hired by the other side? If so, is the tactic fair
play in the hardball game of litigation? |
06-08 |
Marketing
Your Practice in a Recession
Ross Fishman, Esq.
is the CEO of Fishman Marketing, an international marketing
consulting company specializing in marketing training and
retreats, web sites, and branding and differentiation programs
for law firms. |
06-08 |
Marketing
Your Expert Practice in a Recession
Rosalie Hamilton, Founder and President of Expert Communications, creates customized marketing plans
for expert witnesses. |
06-08 |
Media
Expert: Lawyers Missing Big Picture
Since earning his bachelor's degree in engineering from
the University of Liverpool, England, in 1970, and his
Ph.D. from the University of Sussex, England, in 1974,
Dr. Reader has become an internationally recognized expert
in audio-video coding, image processing and digital displays. |
05-08 |
Whose
Expert Are You, Anyway? Suing an Expert for Changing His Mind
Should an expert be sued simply for changing his mind? |
05-08 |
Clearing
Up Software Myths for Attorneys
Lawyers' grasp of computer software technology falls along
a broad spectrum, but the lawyers at either extreme – those who are either well versed
in software or virtually ignorant about it – can be equally dangerous
when it comes to working with an expert witness. |
05-08 |
Expert
Secrecy: An Ethics Dilemma?
A prominent legal-ethics professor has ignited a firestorm of controversy
with his accusation that three equally prominent legal-ethics professors
gave bad legal advice while serving as paid experts in a major employment
litigation. |
04-08 |
Why
Do They Call Us Expert Witnesses? Part II
Part 1 explained
how experts and clients (attorneys) get together and what the experts
may be expected to do. |
04-08 |
What Lawyers Don't
Get About Finance
There are two kinds of people in the world, says finance expert Tom E.
Greene: word people and number people. |
03-08 |
Why
Do They Call Us Witnesses? Part I
The words expert and witness are often joined together, as if the purpose
of the expert is to be a witness at a trial. |
03-08 |
Experts Central to Two Huge Sanction Awards
February delivered a double-whammy to Medtronic Inc., after two federal
courts in two states separately slapped it with significant sanctions over
its litigation tactics in patent cases, even as the company scored a huge
victory in the Supreme Court. |
03-08 |
Experts’ Testimony
Decisive Factor in $74M Patent Case
TiVo Inc. scored a major victory in its four-year patent fight
with rival EchoStar when the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed
a jury verdict for TiVo of $74 million – with interest now estimated
at $94 million. |
02-08 |
Judge's Mistake Cause for Reversal?
What happens when a judge says he'll order one thing, but then
writes the order as something much different? |
02-08 |
$8.6M
Sanction for Discovery Abuse
A federal court ordered telecom giant Qualcomm Inc. to pay
$8.6 million in sanctions and asked the California state bar to investigate
six of its attorneys for ethical violations after finding that it deliberately
withheld nearly 50,000 documents from discovery in a patent dispute with
rival Broadcom Corp. |
01-08 |
Offering
Reward, Lawyer Aims to Unmask Blogger
Raymond P. Niro, a highly successful plaintiffs' patent lawyer
who inspired an opponent to coin the term "patent troll" in reference
to him, has offered a $10,000 reward to unmask the anonymous lawyer who writes
the Patent Troll Tracker blog. |
01-08 |
Ruling
On Class-Action Standard Under Attack
A 9th U.S. Circuit ruling on the standard of expert evidence
required to certify a class action – one that resulted in approval
of the largest class action in history – has come under heavy criticism
-- most recently from a lower federal court within that very circuit. |
01-08 |
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