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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. -
Does an expert witness have any remedies when his or her testimony is excluded as inadmissible under a Daubert challenge? -
After designating an expert witness as a testifying expert, a party decided to shift gears during discovery, suddenly re-designating its expert as non-testifying, consulting. What are the resulting discovery implications for the opposing party? Can the re-designated expert still be deposed? -
The ruling reveals how an attorney’s failure to properly supervise an expert can result in waiver of attorney-client privilege in an otherwise-protected electronic document. -
Every lawyer learns in law school that to be able to appeal an issue to a higher court, you must preserve it. No formaldehyde is needed for this, but what is required is that the lawyer clearly raise an objection at trial and get an express ruling from the trial judge. -
To what admissibility standard should expert witness testimony comport in order to certify a class? This seemingly straightforward question has sharply divided federal courts and has never been fully addressed by the U.S. Supreme Court -- until perhaps now. -
A recent decision from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sheds new light on the effect of an expert witness's change of mind. -
Prevailing parties often have ways to recover their expert witness fees