Effective Expert Testimony (NITA Practical Guide Series)

Trial lawyers must confront many issues when dealing with experts. Some of those issues include: skepticism from the court; high cost for the client; and resentful jurors--a result of arrogant-sounding experts. The trial lawyer must deal with these problems, resolve them, and encourage the court and jurors to welcome the experts as helpful, credible, admissible, and persuasive. Effective Expert Testimony shows you how and examines the rules of evidence and ethics that govern the relationship of experts to lawyers, juries, and courts. Appendices are included for selected Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Supreme Court Cases and Court of Appeals Cases.

David M. Malone is a trial attorney, author, consultant, and teacher who has worked with NITA since 1979. He is the founding principal of Trial Run Inc., a litigation training and consulting firm. Malone is the author NITA's deposition text, The Effective Deposition; of the companion pocket-sized book, entitled, Deposition Rules; and of NITA's Effective Expert Testimony. Through Trial Run Inc., Malone has written and published a number of other litigation "rule" books, including Daubert Rules and Effective Deposition Defense Rules.

Paul J. Zwier is a Professor at Emory University School of Law where he directs the trial advocacy and litigation skills programs, and also teaches Torts and Advanced Negotiation, Mediation, and International Dispute Resolution seminars. He is the Director of Public Education for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and specializes in designing learning-by-doing programming for teaching advanced legal skills. He has taught courses in advocacy, litigation skills, and ADR at more than 250 law firms and legal organizations in the U.S., and internationally in Africa, Canada, China, England, Guam, Ireland, Scotland, and Saipan. He also consults on ADR strategies as well as case theory and presentation in trial cases.