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Litigation & Appeals

Attorneys' Complete Guide to Experts in Indiana Civil Litigation

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Credit Status Total
Illinois CLE Approved 6 Total
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6 hours 9 minutes
Tracy Coleman
Kathleen Erickson
Judy Woods
Timothy Kelly
Stephanie Gutwein
Dennis Geisleman
Liam Williams
With Tracy A. Coleman from Coleman Law Group LLC + 6 others
Recorded June 26, 2024
Product ID 98341

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Overview

Reports, Deposition Tactics, Admission Hurdles, Direct and Cross-Examination Techniques

Cases often hinge on expert witnesses, so it is vital to have a firm understanding of the court rules governing their use. Are you strategically using the rules of evidence and procedure to maximize the effectiveness of your experts while discounting the validity of opposing experts' credentials, methodology, and more? In this intensive online seminar, our experienced faculty will share tips on using rules concerning expert witnesses with surgical precision, so you have the upper hand in court. From expert reports to testimony, apply the rules concerning expert witnesses to your best advantage. Register today!

  • Analyze experts' reports to pinpoint mistakes that have case-devastating potential.
  • Get your experts ready for deposition by ensuring they thoroughly understand the deposition procedure and opposing counsel tricks.
  • Locate key documents and other sources of information that can set up opposing experts for impeachment.
  • Get your experts' testimony admitted into evidence by ensuring their qualifications, methodology, and character are all acceptable.
  • Cast doubt on opposing experts in cross examination by highlighting weaknesses in their testimony, the invalidity of their methodology, and more.
  • Avoid ethical pitfalls when communicating with your experts and adverse expert witnesses.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. How to Select the Perfect Witness (With Sample Retainer Agreement)
  2. Applying the Rules to Expert Reports
  3. Preparing Your Expert and Defending Depositions
  4. Deposing the Opposing Expert
  5. Admission Hurdles for Expert Testimony
  6. Direct Examination: Tips to Make Your Expert Shine
  7. Cross-Examination and Impeachment Techniques
  8. Ethical Considerations for Working With Experts

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  1. How to Select the Perfect Witness (With Sample Retainer Agreement)

  2. Applying the Rules to Expert Reports

    1. Expert Disclosure Rules and Work Product Protection
    2. Should an Expert Report be Prepared?
    3. The Logistics of Obtaining and Requesting Expert Reports
    4. Materials to Give to the Expert (and to Withhold)
    5. Preparing and Analyzing the Report - Top Mistakes That Need to be Avoided

  3. Preparing Your Expert and Defending Depositions

    1. Ensuring Your Expert Understands the Deposition Procedure
    2. Critical Documents Experts Need for Deposition
    3. Opposing Counsel Questions and Goals: Does Your Expert Understand?
    4. Effective Use of Objections
    5. Increasing Expert Effectiveness in Video Depositions
    6. Terminating Depositions
    7. Cleansing the Record and Defending Your Witness's Testimony

  4. Deposing the Opposing Expert

    1. Getting and Reviewing the Expert's File, Internet Investigation Tips
    2. Ensuring Proper Deposition Timing
    3. Planning, Preparation, and Outline
    4. Effective Questions and Questioning Strategies
    5. Dealing With Difficult Witnesses and Obstructive Opposing Counsel
    6. After the Deposition
    7. Using Depositions at Trial: Practical Tips

  5. Admission Hurdles for Expert Testimony

    1. Daubert/Frye Gatekeeping Standards: An Overview
    2. Admissibility of Non-Scientific Expert Testimony
    3. Expert Character, Competency, and Qualifications
    4. Admissibility of What you Give Your Expert
    5. Is the Expert's Methodology Acceptable?
    6. Limits for Expert Opinions and the Use of Inadmissible Evidence
    7. The Expert's Opinion: Is it Hearsay?
    8. Using Motions to Block Expert Testimony
    9. Qualifying an Expert Witness: Sample Voir Dire

  6. Direct Examination: Tips to Make Your Expert Shine

    1. Qualification Questions That Illustrate Experience
    2. Humanizing the Expert: Helpful Tips
    3. Using Hypotheticals to Show Relevancy
    4. The Expert's Opinion: What Supporting Evidence Must They Give?
    5. Framing Questions to Build Logical Connections
    6. Magnifying Expert Credibility
    7. Using Experts to Create Exhibits
    8. The Expert as a Teacher: Presentation Best Practices

  7. Cross-Examination and Impeachment Techniques

    1. Exploiting Weaknesses in the Expert's Testimony
    2. Illustrating the Invalidity of the Expert's Methodology
    3. Using the Expert's Report Against Them
    4. Using Compensation to Cast Doubt
    5. Constructive Cross: Drawing Out Helpful Testimony
    6. Avoiding the One Question Too Many and Other Common Mistakes

  8. Ethical Considerations for Working With Experts

    1. Confidentiality, Privilege, and Work Product
    2. Compensating the Expert
    3. Preparing vs. Coaching the Witness: What to Always and Never Say
    4. Making False Statements to a Tribunal
    5. Ethical Issues in Refreshing Witness Recollection
    6. Contact With Adverse Expert Witnesses (Consulting vs. Testifying)
    7. Vigorous Advocacy vs. Civility

Who Should Attend

This basic-to-intermediate level online seminar offers attorneys the knowledge to best employ the rules governing expert witnesses in depositions, direct and cross-examination at trial, and more. Paralegals may also find it useful.

Speakers

Tracy A Coleman
Tracy A.
Coleman
Coleman Law Group LLC
Kathleen M Erickson
Kathleen M.
Erickson
O'Neill McFadden & Willett
Judy L Woods
Judy L.
Woods
Krieg DeVault LLP
Timothy F Kelly
Timothy F.
Kelly
Tauber Law Offices
Stephanie L Gutwein
Stephanie L.
Gutwein
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Dennis H Geisleman
Dennis H.
Geisleman
Geisleman & Brown, LLP
Liam Williams
Liam
Williams
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Speaker bio
Tracy A Coleman

Tracy A. Coleman

Coleman Law Group LLC
Tracy Coleman

is the owner of Coleman Law Group LLC, located in Gary, Indiana. She has more than 21 years of experience and a diverse law practice. Ms. Coleman's areas of practice include, but are not limited to, personal injury cases, discrimination cases, civil rights cases, estate planning, and family law. She is admitted to practice in the state of Indiana, U.S. District Court for the Northern and Southern districts of Indiana, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Ms. Coleman earned her B.A. degree from Indiana University. She worked on her Juris Doctorate degree at Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon and University of Nairobi in Nairobi, Kenya, before receiving her Juris Doctorate from Valparaiso University School of Law.

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Kathleen M Erickson

Kathleen M. Erickson

O'Neill McFadden & Willett
Kathleen Erickson

is a partner with the law firm of O'Neill McFadden & Willett. She focuses her practice on a wide range of civil litigation defense,and has extensive experience handling medical malpractice and healthcare defense matters. Ms. Erickson works with her clients through all phases of litigation, including investigation, motion practice, written and oral discovery, and trial. She represents hospitals and individual health care providers before medical review panels, in court and on appeal. Ms. Erickson earned her B.A. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and her J.D. degree from Valparaiso University School of Law. She is a member of the Lake County Indiana Bar Association.

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Judy L Woods

Judy L. Woods

Krieg DeVault LLP
Judy Woods

is a partner with Krieg DeVault LLP, in the firm's Litigation Practice Group. She focuses her practice on complex commercial and "bet the company" litigation, including domestic and international antitrust, intellectual property, class actions, mass torts, financial, shareholder, and corporate governance disputes. Ms. Woods represents plaintiffs and defendants in complex litigation involving mergers, acquisitions, asset purchases and sales of public and private companies, partnerships, limited liability firms, financial, insurance and holding companies; matters related to the purchase and sale of stock, annuities, debentures or other securities; professional liability matters, as well as other matters involving financial institutions, issuers, underwriters, broker/dealers and accounting firms; intellectual property and ERISA matters; and other business to business disputes. Ms. Woods has extensive experience in electronic discovery and the use of expert witnesses. She is a mediator and an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association serving on the Panel of Neutrals for Large and Complex Cases, for Commercial Cases and for the International Center for Dispute Resolution. Ms. Woods has several published decisions and articles, and authors Volumes 7, 8 and 8A (UCC) of Indiana Practice. She earned her B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Macalester College; her M.A. degree from Bryn Mawr College; and her J.D. degree, cum laude, from Indiana University McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis.

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Timothy F Kelly

Timothy F. Kelly

Tauber Law Offices
Timothy Kelly

is an attorney with Tauber Law Offices located in Schererville Indiana. He focuses his practice on personal injury, commercial, and contract litigation. Mr. Kelly is also a civil mediator having successfully mediated hundreds of personal injury cases. He has tried hundreds of cases in state and federal courts in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Louisiana, Texas, Arizona, and Tennessee. Mr. Kelly is a founding member of the Chicagoland Law Tigers, an organization that represents injured motorcycle riders. He is a member of the American Association for justice, the American Association of Motorcycle Injury Lawyers, ABATE, and the Harley Owners' group. Mr. Kelly earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1972.

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Stephanie L Gutwein

Stephanie L. Gutwein

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Stephanie Gutwein

is an attorney at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, and a member of the firm's business litigation practice group, as well as the ERISA litigation and public sector finance and transaction sub-groups. She has experience in a wide variety of complex business disputes in federal and state courts, representing commercial and public clients, individuals, and benefit plans and plan fiduciaries pursuing and defending constitutional claims under the Indiana and United States Constitutions; contract; statutory; and shareholder claims; and ERISA disputes, including those related to employee pension and welfare plans, ESOPs, severance plans and equity awards, qualified domestic relations orders, and multiemployer pension plans. Ms. Gutwein also maintains a regular pro bono practice. She is a board member of IndyBar's eDiscovery Committee. Ms. Gutwein earned her J.D. degree, summa cum laude, from the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law. She received degrees in biology and political science from Indiana University, Bloomington.

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Dennis H Geisleman

Dennis H. Geisleman

Geisleman & Brown, LLP
Dennis Geisleman

is the senior partner in the Fort Wayne law firm of Geisleman & Brown, LLP. Since 1982, he has devoted his practice primarily to personal injury, medical malpractice and wrongful death. Mr. Geisleman earned his B.A. degree from Indiana University and his J.D. degree from Indiana University School of Law.

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Liam Williams

Liam Williams

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Liam Williams

is an attorney with Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. His practice centers around litigation and dispute resolution. Mr. Williams earned his B.A. degree from the University of Connecticut and his J.D. degree from Indiana University Maurer School of Law. He is admitted to practice in Indiana.

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