Practice Support
The Practice Support section of FindLaw's Law Firm Management Center provides free resources related to financial issues encountered by solo and small law firm practices. Selecting business vendors and service providers such as Experts and Expert Witnesses, Document Preparation services, Investigators, and Litigation Support professionals is important to the success of your cases and your law firm. Working with the right litigation and practice support professionals can make all the difference. As a small business owner, you need the right information to make decisions that impact your law practice. Browse, read, and share FindLaw's collection of articles, tips and lists that focus on Practice Support.
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When it comes to management at law firms, management does not simply refer to case management. It is also connotes the fact that law firms are businesses. However, most lawyers are not specifically trained to handle the business side and would prefer to stick to the legal matters.
Whose Side Are Expert Witnesses On?May an expert witness switch sides in a lawsuit? Unlike the lawyers in a case, no rule expressly stops an expert from "hopping the fence". After all, the expert's allegiance is to the truth, not to any one party, right?
How to Connect with Today's JuryLawyers who communicate clearly to jury members tend to present a more effective case. But are there forces in play, today, that make it harder to communicate to any jury?
Prepping an Expert Witness: How Far Is Too Far?At what point does preparing an expert to testify cross over into coaching? And at what point does coaching cross the line into unethical activity?
Attorney Code of Expert Ethics UpdatedWhat follows is an updated version of a proposed code of ethics for attorneys dealing with experts.
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The Ethics of Hiring Experts You Don't Plan to UseDo lawyers ever retain experts just to lock them out from being hired by the other side? If so, is the tactic fair play in the hardball game of litigation? Or are lawyers who would do this, as one court suggested, short on scruples?
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The U.S. Supreme Court isn't the only judicial panel to wrestle with difficult Daubert questions lately. -
Is a Daubert hearing a mere magical incantation, unnecessary to invoke as long as the trick is still performed? -
Does an expert’s mistake spell disaster for your case? Not necessarily, according to a surprising reversal by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. -
While most are pondering how the economy will affect election results, we're turning that question on its head, examining the flip side. What toll is the looming election taking on the state of the economy, and the legal industry specifically? -
Does an expert witness have any remedies when his or her testimony is excluded as inadmissible under a Daubert challenge?