In the aftermath of the amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 702, courts are called to engage in heightened scrutiny of ...

Before I got the call about working as an expert witness in an employment-law matter, I'd never heard of an expert witness from the business world. The little I knew about the expert witness world ...

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 ...

The adversarial nature of a jury trial leads many of our clients to ask, “Will my expert come across better than theirs?” This is a justifiable concern since jurors’ decisions about liability and ...

The R. Kelly case of alleged sexual exploitation, violence, and coercive control raises complex questions for most of us—as well as the judge and jury. People may wonder how R. Kelly managed to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Expert witnesses are used in complex legal disputes to help explain a technical topic to a judge or arbitrator ...

It comes as no surprise that when a witness is perceived as being credible, their messages will be more persuasive to the jury. Much academic research has been conducted to determine the primary ...

Prosecutors say Owens has failed to provide evidence that he is a diagnosed alcoholic.

A 12-year legal battle over expert witness fees against a surgeon has been dismissed for the third time by a disciplinary ...