Expert Witness Services & Materials on WestlawNext - Pietragallo Gordon

Do you need to find information about an expert witness? WestlawNext has many services and materials designed to help you obtain information about an expert, including prior testimony, biographical data, education, and articles and dissertations written by the expert. You will also learn how to use WestlawNext to locate an expert witness in a specific field.

OUTLINE/AGENDA:

• Thomson Reuters Expert Witness Services
  • Efficiencies in locating expert witnesses
    • Customized expert witness searches tailored to your specific needs and conducted by specialist recruiters.
    • A great way to supplement your own search for an expert, making you more efficient and more thorough the next time you need an expert witness
• Expert Witness Activity Report
  • A new (and more cost-effective) option for due diligence and intelligence gathering on your opponent's expert and/or your retained expert witness
  • A thorough compilation of intelligence on a selected expert saving hours of time
  • Electronic copy complete with live hyperlinks to documents on Westlaw!
• Expert Materials in WestSearch
  • Run the initial search asbestos lung cancer
  • Filter results on the left affidavits, testimony, depositions; civil or criminal
• Expert Center
  • Simplifies the process of searching for expert witness information by providing for a federated search across many different content types, allowing you to access all expert witness materials available at once
  • Tools defaults to natural language; use a name or description
• Profiler
  • Tools search by name
  • Retrieve a wealth of information pertaining to a specific expert
  • Right hand side general practice information, including area of expertise
• Expert Challenge Reports
  • Shows when an expert was challenged and how the judge ruled, helps determine admissibility of expert testimony
  • Report Includes when expert was challenged in past litigation, result of the challenge, text of the expert testimony, presiding judge and a link to expert court documents associated with the case as a whole
• Expert Evaluator Reports
  • Summarizes key relationships between experts and others using litigation content (case law, jury verdicts, etc.).  There are multiple report tables including appearance summary, role, trial docs & testimony, attorneys, parties, courts, judges and awards.
• Expert Comparison Reports
  • Capability of comparing up to three experts
  • Experts credentials are listed as a side by side comparison
• Expert Preparation and Examination in Secondary Sources
  • Expert Witness Checklists
    • Guides you in selecting and using experts during litigatio
    • Contains the full text of Expert Witness Checklists 3d by Douglas Danner and Larry L. Varn
  • Examination of Witnesses
    • Helps you master the art of witness interrogation with this definitive guide to strategies, tactics, and techniques of direct and cross-examination techniques

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