Expert Rules: 100 (and more) Points You Need to Know About Expert Witnesses

The Second Edition of Expert Rules contains fifty new pages based on changes in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Federal Rules of Evidence as amended December 1, 2000. It also contains a new chapter on expert depositions that examines specific questions an attorney can ask at deposition to explore various concepts of reliability. Expert Rules answers the most commonly asked questions about experts, such as: How do you approach an expert problem? What is the impact of Daubert on expert preparation, direct and cross? How do you structure direct examination of an expert? How do you avoid fatal blunders when you prepare an expert? An extensive index makes the book easy to use for practitioners, students, and researchers.

David M. Malone is the President of Trial Run Inc., a trial consulting and advocacy training firm. He has written several articles dealing specifically with expert issues. He is the author of Deposition Rules: The Pocket Guide to Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How (NITA, 2001) and co-author of The Effective Deposition: Techniques and Strategies That Work (NITA, 1996) and Effective Expert Testimony (NITA, 2000).

Paul J. Zwier is Director of the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution and a member of the faculty at the University of Tennessee College of Law. He is co-author of Effective Expert Testimony (NITA, 2000), as well as numerous articles and books for both the law school and practitioner market on a variety of litigation topics including negotiation, deposition skills, appellate advocacy, motion practice, fact investigation, and ethics.