Recently, I was asked to testify as an expert witness on executive compensation at a deposition for a civil lawsuit between two partners in a heavy construction business. With a lifetime of corporate ...

Many lawyers are concerned about how to deal with an expert witness. Interestingly enough, the same rules and concepts that apply to questions for lay witnesses, also apply to an expert witness. Many ...

Cole Miller remembers one case in particular. "He was a young man who was so egregiously injured that it turned his whole life upside down," recalls Miller, a consultant who serves as an expert ...

In today’s increasingly litigious business environment, lawsuits are fairly commonplace. Those involving financial and accounting practices are particularly prevalent, according to Glenn M. Gelman, ...

Expert testimony plays a critical role in Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Thousands of petitions for inter partes review (IPR) and ...

Expert witnesses in trials can charge fees of more than $1,000 per hour, offering their knowledge in fields such as science, medicine, policing or even about an obscure car part. Their expertise can ...

What should we do when an expert witness provides incorrect or biased information in court? When people review exonerations of falsely convicted innocent people, bad forensic evidence and misleading ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Many physicians, including those employed by larger institutions and those in private practice, choose to become ...

Parties to a lawsuit often retain experts to testify at trial as to an opinion, which each side hopes will: Assist the judge or jury in understanding a complex or technical issue. Bolster a key ...

Faculty at Iowa's public universities, especially doctors, psychiatrists and engineers, can make big money as expert witnesses in civil trials. But some critics say state employees shouldn't be ...

In the aftermath of the guilty verdict in the trial of Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, a consistent element of many criminal trials came into sharp focus: the ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James has attacked two of Donald Trump's fraud trial witnesses, one of whom has contributed over $2 million to Trump's political campaigns. Real estate executive ...