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Daubert Motions: Strategies to Bring & Defend Expert Witness Challenges
Audio Conference Recording Price: 199.00 (U.S. Dollars) -
SUMMARY
Since seminal case of Daubert the number of challenges to expert testimony has increased exponentially. 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:
- Keys to using Daubert to challenge expert witness testimony
- An "expert" defined: The laws governing admissibility of testimony
- Keys to drafting a successful Daubert motion
- Strategies for protecting your expert from a Daubert challenge
- 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
- Tips For Effectively Presenting Daubert Motions
- Keys to expose opposing experts' lack of specialized knowledge
- Using discovery to set up your Daubert challenge
- Strategies you can use to attack the experts' theory
- Daubert factors: Evaluating the reliability of evidence
- Challenging Daubert Motion: What Matters Most
- When & how should you challenge expert testimony?
- How to apply gatekeeping to technical & non-scientific experts
- How to effectively challenge the adequate testing of the expert's theory
- General & specific causation: Key differences & why it matters
- Tactics For Successfully Defending A 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: The proposed amendments to Rule 26
- Use of consulting experts: Factors when selecting & pitfalls to avoid
- Live question and answer session - Have your specific Daubert questions answered
- Tips For 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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