Description
This book is designed to help trial lawyers deal with expert witnesses in business and economic cases in order to present reliable and comprehensible testimony and exclude the unreliable expert. It reviews retaining, developing, and presenting your own expert and effectively cross-examining the other side's expert at trial. Eight categories of experts are considered, including accountants, actuaries, econometrics experts, banking experts, tax experts, valuation and appraisal experts, bankruptcy experts, officers and directors, and marketing experts. Within each category of cases, the guide discusses the retention, qualification, and examination of many specific types of experts.
Features
- Explain what steps should be taken by the litigator in selecting and preparing expert witnesses
- Provides an introduction to the expert discipline with citations and references to the subject matter and Westlaw® for additional research
- Provides a succinct grounding in the qualifications, principles, and language of a particular expert discipline
- Provides sample expert depositions, trial testimony, and reports used in litigation of key business and commercial issues
- Includes real-world illustrations of techniques and tactics for dealing with business and economic experts