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Hands off or hands on? That is the question for litigators and experts alike as to the lawyer's role in writing the expert's report. -
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? -
Courts must provide litigants with an opportunity to be heard before ruling on the admissibility of expert testimony - and in all but exceptional cases that requires courts to hold hearings with full briefing and argument, the Supreme Court of Mississippi ruled in an en banc opinion issued October 4th. -
It is a common litigation scenario: One side's expert says one thing while the other side's says just the opposite. But when - as in patent cases - expert opinion is so critical to the outcome, is summary judgment possible when the two experts disagree? -
February delivered a double-whammy to Medtronic Inc., after two federal courts in two states separately slapped it with significant sanctions over its litigation tactics in patent cases, even as the company scored a huge victory in the Supreme Court. -
The words expert and witness are often joined together, as if the purpose of the expert is to be a witness at a trial. But most cases are settled without trial, so why do they call us witnesses? Here is a two-part chronology of the stages of expert-attorney relationship which explains some of what is really happening (or not). -
Part one of this series explained how experts and clients (attorneys) get together and what the experts may be expected to do. Part II goes over these things in a more detail. -
A prominent legal-ethics professor has ignited a firestorm of controversy with his accusation that three equally prominent legal-ethics professors gave bad legal advice while serving as paid experts in a major employment litigation. -
TiVo Inc. scored a major victory in its four-year patent fight with rival EchoStar when the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a jury verdict for TiVo of $74 million - with interest now estimated at $94 million. -
A 9th U.S. Circuit ruling on the standard of expert evidence required to certify a class action - one that resulted in approval of the largest class action in history - has come under heavy criticism -- most recently from a lower federal court within that very circuit.