Qualifying & Attacking Expert Witnesses

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Reduce the Credibility and Effectiveness of Your Opponent’s Expert

Proficiency studies for many types of expert analysis show a disturbingly large number of mistakes. Intelligent probing can uncover many of these mistakes.

Let Robert Clifford and David Galluzzo’s Qualifying & Attacking Expert Witnesses show you how to dig deep for unreliable testimony, no matter how sterling the expert’s credentials.  The book details dozens of high-potential attacks, including:

• Failure to consider other causes
• Subjective testing
• Insufficient sample
• Anecdotal evidence
• Temporal relationship
• Erroneous extrapolation
• Research prepared for litigation
• And others

Perhaps no litigation task is more important than diluting the effect of the opposition’s expert.Qualifying & Attacking Expert Witnesses devotes 200 pages to tactics, cases, and checklists specific to these experts:

• Appraisers
• Contractors
• Criminologists
• Doctors
• Document examiners
• Economists
• Employment experts
• Insurance experts
• Linguists
• Psychologists
• Physical facts experts
• Transportation engineers

The book’s organization makes it easy to find information you need and tactics that will work. Example Q & A illustrate methods of attack specific to different types of experts. Bulleted lists of practice-proven tactics are found every few pages. Much of the book’s advice is boiled down into step-by-step checklists. Key points are well-supported with detailed relevant cases.

Just a few of the tips and tactics found in the book include:

Make the most of your expert’s testimony and expose the flaws in the opposing expert’s testimony with the tactics, checklists, and case law in Qualifying and Attacking Expert Witnesses.

This edition provides new text and cases covering a wide array of topics including:

Make the most of your expert’s testimony and expose the flaws in the opposing expert’s testimony with the tactics, checklists, and case law in Qualifying and Attacking Expert Witnesses.

REVISION 36 HIGHLIGHTS

Make the most of your expert’s testimony and expose the flaws in the opposing expert’s testimony with Qualifying and Attacking Expert Witnesses. New case summaries, comments, tips, and tactics make this edition invaluable for both new and experienced practitioners. Get the latest on these topics and more:

ATTACKING OPPOSING EXPERTS

• Establishing an Expert Discovery Plan. §411
• Timing of Discovery. §412
• Document Production. §413
• Preparing the Expert Witness Trial Binder. §422
• Exploiting Inconsistencies in an Expert’s Testimony. §434
  • Inconsistencies with the Expert’s Deposition. §434.1
  • Inconsistencies with Authorities. §434.2
• Cross-Examining Opposing Experts on the Use of Authorities. §434.4.1

VALUATION EXPERTS

• Construction Experts. §520
• Architects and Engineers. §521
• Architectural and Engineering Negligence. §521.1
• Mold Litigation. §521.2
• Linguistic Experts. §620

AND MORE!

ABBREVIATED TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Selecting Your Expert
2. Discovery and Your Expert
3. Presenting Your Expert at Trial and Arbitration
4. Attacking the Opposing Expert
5. Commonly Used Experts

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David J. Galluzzo is a trial attorney and patent litigator who specializes in representing pharmaceutical companies in patent infringement actions. Mr. Galluzzo also represents other clients, from multinational corporations to startups, on a variety of other issues including big data, smartphone apps, medical devices, chemical products, patents, trademarks, copyrights, white-collar crime, construction, fine art, and securities.

Before his legal career, Mr. Galluzzo was a scientist at Pfizer, Inc. where he researched cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. This scientific background has proven invaluable to his legal expertise; the analytical skill and attention to detail that make a great scientist are the same skills that make a great advisor and advocate. Mr. Galluzzo now uses his combined skill sets and refined analytical reasoning to consistently win the proverbial “battle of the experts” in the biggest and most complex cases.

Mr. Galluzzo obtained his law degree from University of Connecticut School of Law with a concentration in intellectual property, and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in molecular biology and chemistry from the University of Connecticut. He is a member of the honors society, Phi Beta Kappa.