Expert witnessing and scientific testimony : a guidebook /: a guidebook. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kenneth S. Cohen.
• Authors: Cohen, Kenneth S, 1937-
• Contents: Involvement in a Legal Action; Your First Subpoena; How Did I Get Into This?; I’m Not an Expert or a Witness!; When Recognizing Errors and Omissions Is Your Job; Expert Witnessing; The Who; The What and Where; The When; The How; Witness Backgrounds; ; Negligence ; The Legal Definition of Negligence; Professional Negligence; Statutory Negligence; Ignorance Is No Excuse of the Law; ; Rules of Evidence and Code of Procedure; What You Need to Know; Hearsay Rule; Chain of Custody; Hazardous Materials; Nondestructive Testing; Rape Evidence Kit; ; The Body of Scientific Literature; Libraries Are for the Dinosaurs; And Then There Was MEDLARS; CD-ROMS: Making Progress; The Internet; Too Much Information; ; Foundation Equates to Persuasion ; Court: "I’ve Seen His Noodles and They Are Okay!"; The Weight of Testimony; Foundation of Knowledge; Demonstratives; Exponential Decay Curve; Electron Microscopy; ; Legal Expert Witnesses; Who Qualifies?; Believing in One’s Self; Witness Preparation; The Invisible Expert; The Truth Only Comes Out One Way!; ; Speaking the Language of Lawyers; Legal Language 101; Responsiveness to the Question; Anticipating Questions; Attorney-Client Privilege; Don’t Speak "Legal"; ; Doing the Courtroom Dance, First Learn the Steps; Step 1: Deposition; Step 2: Mandatory Settlement Conference; Step 3: Trial; ; Skeletons in Your Closet; Digging up the Past; Pretext: When the Line Is Crossed; Fee Questions; Finding a Few Skeletons Yourself; Résumés: One of Your Best or Worst Tools; Skeletons in Unlikely Places; Rehabilitation of an Expert Witness; ; Impeachment Is Not Just for Presidents!; First Few Minutes of Cross-Examination; Toward the End of Cross-Examination; Don’t Underestimate the Jury; Impeachment; ; Criminal, Civil, and Workers’ Compensation Cases; Criminal Cases; Civil Cases; Workers’ Compensation Cases; ; Toxic Torts in Retrospect; Introduction of Toxic Torts; Medical Misdiagnosis; Compensation: Not Just for Work Anymore; ; One Case Is Tragic; Two or More Is an Epidemic; Epidemiology; Birth of a Lawsuit; Prevention; Risk; Dual Role of the Court; ; Professional Liability; Professional Liability Insurance; Indemnification Clauses and Letters; Hold-Harmless Agreements; "Going Barefoot" with Limited Financial Assets; Actionable Events and Activities; Scientific Accuracy, Completeness, and Documentation; ; Out of the Ordinary: Investigations, Cases, and Trials; Abalone’s Revenge!; Did She Die Now or Later?; Peep Show Problems; Fried Chicken Maggots; Musician’s Asbestos Exposure; A Double Shotgun Death in the Backcountry; Dr. Tyndall, I Presume?; Is That My Pubic Hair?; Redwood Deck Blues!; Bull-Riding Roofer; Don’t Shake My Hand; Lethality of Human Poop; Lipoid Pneumonia Doesn’t Mean "Fat Lungs"; Ordinary or Out-of-the-Ordinary?; ; Expert Witnesses: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Christopher E. Andreas ; Trial Basics; The "Good"; The "Bad"; The "Ugly"; Closing Argument; ; Do You Charge for Your Testimony?; No, I Charge for My Time!; Fee Structure; Pro Bono Work; Workers’ Compensation Reports; Travel and Expenses; Cancellation Fees; Privacy versus Disclosure; ; Being a Medical Expert Witness: Be Careful What You Wish For!; David M. Priver ; Promotion of High Standards of Medical Care; We Get Paid to Do This; We Are Helpers; We Educate Ourselves; Bringing the Fields of Law and Medicine Closer Together; Agreeing Inappropriately to a Settlement; Inherent Conflict of Interest; No Help to Patients with Bad Outcomes Unrelated to Negligence; Inappropriate Ethical Guidelines; Poor Quality Medical Records; Could There Be a Better Medical Tort System?; The Fifteen Questions to Answer Before Becoming a Medical Expert Witness; ; Accounting and Financial Matters: Numbers Don’t Lie; Stephen A. Pedneault; The Spectrum of Experts; My Sweet Spot; Nothing Beats Experience; Motions In Limine to Preclude an Expert (aka Daubert Challenges); Crossing the Double Yellow Line; When it Comes to Experts, Testifying = Educating; People Like Analogies; It All Ends Up in Retained Earnings; ; Closing Arguments ; Potholes in the Road to Expert Witnessing; Conclusions
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 347.7367; Evidence, Expert -- United States; Trial practice -- United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498721097
• Related ISBNs: 9781498721066
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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