Litigators, beware. In your path lurk seven deadly sins of working with an expert witness -- and you're in danger of committing some even before you sign that retention agreement. Remember that expert witnesses are called that for a reason. You may not like what she's saying, but if your expert tells you that your theory is rendered impossible by the immutable laws of physics, you should listen. As one expert witness says, "Our job is not to support a lawyer's theory, it's to find out the technical truth."
April 12, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
“So, I’d really like it if you could say this …”
If you’ve just said that to your expert witness, you’ve just made his blood boil. And that’s probably not going to be very good for your case. As engineer Steven Murray, Ph.D., of Exponent Failure Analysis Associates in Menlo Park, Calif., says, “Our job is not to support a lawyer’s theory, it’s to find out the technical truth.”
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