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Daubert Motions: Strategies to Bring & Defend Expert Witness Challenges
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SUMMARY
The number of Daubert challenges to expert testimony has increased exponentially. Whether you are hiring a qualified expert or cross-examining an opposing expert, it is imperative that you are not only properly prepared to mount a challenge of admissibility, but also defend against opposition challenges. Join us for a 60-minute audio conference where you and your colleagues will discover:
- Strategies for drafting, offering and defending Daubert motions
- Daubert factors: Criteria for exclusion & reliability of evidence
- Tactics to protect your expert from a Daubert challenge
- Expert report: Keys to developing an effective and defensible report
- Expert disclosure: How to use Rules 26(f) and 26(a) to your advantage
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
This practical 60-minute, audio conference will provide you and your colleagues with the latest information from a Daubert expert on how to bring and defend expert witness challenges.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Conducting Daubert Hearings & Effectively Presenting Daubert Motions
- When & how should you challenge expert testimony?
- Keys to effectively establish the ground rules for a Daubert hearing
- How to use discovery to set up your Daubert challenge
- Daubert factors: Evaluating the reliability of evidence
- Keys to Challenging Opposing Experts under Daubert and FRE 702
- How to apply gatekeeping to technical & non-scientific experts
- Keys to expose opposing experts' lack of specialized knowledge
- Attacking the expert's theory: Dissecting the report & methodology
- Current trends in court review of expert reliability
- Tactics For Successfully Defending A Daubert Challenge
- When can Rule 701 lay opinion be used in lieu of a Rule 702 expert?
- Tactics for selecting and preparing your experts for deposition
- Preparation of the Expert Report: Keys to drafting, revising & supplementing
- Live question and answer session - Have your specific Daubert questions answered
- Conducting Daubert Hearings & Effectively Presenting Daubert Motions
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SPEAKER
Clifton Hutchinson is a partner in the Dallas office of at K&L Gates where he specializes in complex litigation and scientific expert issues, and is a frequent speaker and author on expert evidence and Daubert challenges. Mr. Hutchinson has argued complex procedural issues before the United States Supreme Court and federal and state courts of appeal. Some of his accomplishments include:
- Mr. Hutchinson handles a wide variety of litigation matters, including significant intellectual property and trade secrets issues, probate and trust claims, products liability and toxic torts, among others. Mr. Hutchinson's practice has focused on matters involving complex technical and scientific issues.
- Mr. Hutchinson helped pioneer the use of gatekeeping to exclude or limit unreliable expert testimony. He was the lead defense counsel in Christophersen v. Allied Signal, and successfully argued the case before the en banc Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Christophersen established stringent expert reliability rules for federal courts in the circuit, predating the Daubert decision.
- Mr. Hutchinson is a frequent author and speaker on Daubert related issues. Most recently, he authored Expert Witnesses: Business & Economy Cases (West 2008) and was the co-editor of Scientific Evidence Review (ABA 2008).
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CLE CREDITS
Continuing Legal Education CLE credit is available for an additional $65 per person in states where teleconferences are accredited
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PROGRAM MATERIALS
The speaker's PowerPoint presentation slides are included with your audio recording purchase. All materials are accessible through the Internet and can be downloaded as a PDF file.
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PRICING
$199.00 for audio conference recording (CD or DVD) and program materials.
This is an outstanding program and therefore we offer purchasers a Money Back Guarantee. We are so confident that you will find the conference valuable that we offer a 100% money back guarantee from now until 30 days after the audio recording is shipped, making this a risk-free investment. If you should have any concerns, comments, or refund requests with this conference, please contact our customer service representatives at 800-964-6033. Audio recordings will be received approximately three weeks after the live conference.
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