Description
Litigation involving experts is becoming increasingly more complicated and oftentimes the case is won or lost at the expert deposition. Our authoritative panel will address approaches to attack the opposition at the expert's deposition by eliciting testimony to support a Daubert challenge of the expert's qualifications, destroy the expert's credibility at trial, and obtain ammunition to obtain a favorable settlement.
Facing a deponent who is a professional witness armed with a level of expertise beyond a layperson requires in-depth preparation prior to the deposition and deposition-taking skills to gain admissions from the expert that break the opponent's case.
This presentation will provide litigators with actions that should be taken prior to the deposition in order to prepare an attack on the experts' qualifications, prior opinions, and testimony. Our speakers will also provide tips for setting up the expert for impeachment at trial, challenging the expert's methodology, and gaining the upper hand in settlement negotiations.
Listen as our authoritative panel provides proven strategies for overcoming the most complex expert deposition hurdles and using those depositions to obtain favorable settlements or verdicts by taking the wind out of the opposing expert's sails.
Presented By
Mr. Cochran represents individuals and businesses in a wide variety of matters. He has tried jury trials, bench trials, administrative and regulatory hearings, and medical peer review hearings. He has appeared on many panels and spoken at seminars on a variety of topics, including the application of the Daubert rule and a host of topics related to white-collar criminal law and investigations.
Mr. Fellows represents corporations, partnerships and individuals in cases related to commercial contract disputes, fraud and RICO recovery, Georgia Trade Secrets Act, ERISA, and numerous other matters. He has tried cases in numerous Georgia Superior and State Courts, and also successfully argued cases before the Georgia Supreme Court, the Georgia Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Mr. Lockett is a trial lawyer specializing in high-stakes business disputes. He has significant experience representing members of the real estate, financial services, hospitality, and technology industries. He has developed particular expertise in litigating fraudulent transfer claims on behalf of both creditors and borrowers and representing lenders in disputes involving intercreditor and loan participation agreements. For eight years, he was a partner at an Am Law 200 law firm based in Atlanta. His practice is national in scope, and he routinely handles cases and arbitrations around the United States.
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This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.
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Date + Time
- event
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
- schedule
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
- Preparing for the deposition
- The expert's qualifications
- Prior opinions and testimony
- Working with retained experts to identify flaws in the opposing expert's methodology
- Deposing the expert
- Gathering testimony for a Daubert challenge
- Setting up the expert for impeachment at trial
- Identifying holes in opinions for settlement leverage
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- Preparing to attack the expert's qualifications
- Locating expert's prior opinions and testimony
- Attacking the expert's methodology at the deposition
- Setting up deposition testimony for use in Daubert motions
- Increasing settlement value by discrediting the opposing expert
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