On the Jury Trial: Principles and Practices for Effective Advocacy by Thomas M Melsheimer & Craig Smith

Author:Thomas M Melsheimer & Craig Smith
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781574416992
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2017-11-12T21:00:00+00:00

You should also get a sense of your experts’ work load and work style. Do they testify frequently, thus raising issues about their availability to devote sufficient time to your case? Do they work with a team of other consultants who do a lot of the work? This is common with many witnesses who testify for a living as it enables them to take on more work than they could do on their own. In this event, you need to meet the other consultants and get comfortable with them as well. One red flag with this kind of witness is a potential to get overcommitted to too many cases. Like trial lawyers, experts will extoll their ability to multi-task and juggle. It’s important to check with other lawyers who have worked with the expert to make sure that the expert devoted sufficient time and attention to their matters. With deadlines for expert reports and trial settings that can either be firm or flexible, it is critical that you hire an expert who will be a consummate professional in adjusting to your demands and not someone who expects you to adjust to him. It is also critical that your expert is familiar enough with all of the work performed by his team that his testimony will hold up on cross.

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