Designed to help attorneys prepare for and examine expert witnesses, this informative CLE course will explain how to gather and assess information in preparation for a deposition or trial testimony of an expert, as well as how to formulate a comprehensive inquiry for the examination of an expert witness.

The course will address how to present the relevant background of your expert and the areas in which they have approval and standing to render expert opinions.

The course will also explain how to prepare for and present issues such as:

• Relative bias
• Qualifications to testify both in general and in this particular case
• Circumstances of their retention by the opposing party
• Reliance on authoritative materials or lack thereof
• Breadth of their knowledge and qualifications. in general and as it relates to the case at hand
• Information provided and not provided to the expert
• Expert’s specific knowledge of the facts of this particular case
• Information supporting the opinions of the expert
• Expert’s prior testimony on subjects relating to the opinions presented in this case
• Establishing Daubert or other credibility and reliability challenges or limitation-related arguments
• How to inquire about and fully examine the expert’s actual opinions
• Maneuvering the expert to endorse your expert or the materials that your expert has relied upon
• Inquiries regarding expert’s belief that any additional work is needed to finalize the opinions
• and more