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• Author: David J. Galluzzo
• Pages: 1-18

QUALIFYING & ATTACKING

EXPERT WITNESSES

BY DAVID J. GALLUZZO

HIGHLIGHTS

Make the most of your expert’s testimony and expose the flaws in the opposing expert’s testimony with Qualifying

and Attacking Expert Witnesses. New material in this edition covers these topics and more:

Finding Appropriate Candidates

• Sources for locating experts.

• Verifying the expert’s credentials.

The Initial Meeting

• Topics to cover.

• Questions to ask before making the final selection.

• Cases.

Preservation of Evidence

• Spoliation sanctions.

• Government regulations and obligation to preserve evidence.

• Relevance of spoliated material.

• Is Intentional spoliation a separate tort?

• Tactics, checklist, and cases.

Experts in Legal Malpractice

• Establishing the attorney’s legal duty to the claimant.

• Expert testimony on standard of care.

• Common knowledge exception.

• Causation and proving merits of the “case within a case.”

• Damages experts in legal malpractice cases.

• Defending the malpractice case.

• Checklist and cases.

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