From the site: "What is a Paralegal 's role when it comes to working with expert witnesses?  On this edition of The Paralegal Voice, co-hosts Lynne DeVenny and Vicki Voisin welcome Bradley J. Beehler, Esq. and Candy Reilly, ACP, as they put the spotlight on the expert witness. They will share their experiences working with expert witnesses, explore a paralegal's duties when working with an expert witness, the Daubert standard, resources and practice tips for working with experts.

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Posted by Robert Ambrogi: "Halfway through, 2009 is already shaping up to be a year of significant appellate rulings involving expert witnesses. An article I wrote for the e-newsletter of IMS ExpertServices looks back over the first six months of 2009 and highlights the five most important expert rulings handed down this year -- at least so far: Top Five Expert Rulings (So Far) of 2009."

 The active link is available at the source site listed below.

Source: Robert Ambrogi's LawSites, 13 July 2009

Posted by Evan Schaeffer: "At the James Publishing weblog, Dorothy Clay Sims has a book excerpt titled "Checklist for Researching Defense Doctors," which includes a number of tips that will work for researching doctors hired by either side in a case.

Sims lists these sites, among others--

• ALMexperts.com
• Florida Med-Mal Claims Information
• Florida Office of Insurance Regulation
• AMA Links to State Medical Boards
• National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology
• PubMed
• Google Scholar
• Amazon.com

To get the specifics as to the best way to use these sites (as well as some other sites I omitted from the list), you should read the full post.

Sims' post also includes detailed instructions for using eight different databases within Lexis for researching medical experts. Sims' book is titled Exposing Deceptive Doctors."

The active links are available at the source site listed below.

Source: The Trial Practice Tips Weblog, 30 April 2009

From the e-newsletter: "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."

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Related Resources
• Browse Expert Witnesses

Source: FindLaw's Practice Paper. 22 January 2009 Copyright © 2008 FindLaw, a Thomson Business. Subscribe <http://newsletters.findlaw.com/>.

Posted by Paul Luvera: "The way to avoid mistakes is to have a standard operating procedure for what you do in your law practice. The checklist for doing things can be very simple. Once it is put into use it can be added to or revised as experience dictates. Here is a very basic and simple checklist for a plaintiff expert witness. Obviously a lot more detail should be added, but it's a start.

INITIAL LETTER...

EXPERT MATERIAL...

TRIAL DATE...

EXPERT DISCLOSURES...

DEPOSITION ARRANGEMENTS...

DEPOSITION MATERIALS...

The full text of this post is available at the source site listed below

Source: Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips, 12 November 2008