Succeeding As an Expert Witness: Increasing Your Impact and Income

The specialized knowledge and experience you already have that allows you to achieve positive results in your field may qualify you as a potential expert authority. Lawyers and their clients rely on experts - scientists, accountants, engineers, appraisers, mechanics, technicians and other professionals - to help resolve complex legal disputes. If you can apply the skills you already possess to consider the facts of a case and render a supportable opinion, you may realize a lucrative second career as an expert witness.

Succeeding As An Expert Witness contains all the information you need to get started, or to enhance your existing skills as an expert. Learn more about what to do, how to prepare, and what to expect. The author is a noted trial lawyer who has achieved favorable results by retaining expert witnesses throughout his trial career.

Succeeding As An Expert Witness includes:

- Ready-to-use, trial-tested checklists for expert preparation
- Valuable insights from the first-ever national survey of active expert witnesses
- Instructive examples and case studies in which expert testimony played a key role in resolution
- An overview of ethical standards and Federal Rules of Evidence - guidelines every expert must know

A. Feder was a trial lawyer with 35 years of trial experience. Many of his cases involved the use of expert witnesses. Feder was a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the International Society of Barristers and the College of Law Practice Management, and past president of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association. He lectured and wrote extensively on expert testimony, trial technique and practice management throughout the U.S. and Canada for over 20 years.