Retaining, Preparing, and Working With Expert Witnesses
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About
This Course
Finding, retaining, using, and examining expert witnesses can be challenging. Many cases rely heavily on expert testimony, so finding the right experts and preparing them well can be the difference between success and failure. This course is an introduction to finding and working with experts, writing expert reports, and getting experts ready for deposition and trial.
Litigators who may work with experts in evaluating or presenting their cases and in-house counsel who are involved in or supervise litigation will find this course of interest, though all are encouraged to attend.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to identify and communicate with experts
- Delineate how to prepare expert reports and declarations
- Understand how to depose expert witnesses and prepare them for deposition
- Investigate Daubert motions
- Explore using expert testimony at trial during direct and cross-examination
About the Presenters
Jenny Zhang, Esq.
Goodwin Procter LLP
Practice Area: Trial (+ 1 other areas)
Jenny Zhang is a senior associate in Goodwin’s Intellectual Property Litigation practice and is a member of the firm’s Life Sciences Disputes group. She focuses her practice on patent litigation across a wide range of technologies and advises clients in developing and executing litigation strategy across multiple forums. She maintains an active pro bono practice.Ms. Zhang has served as a judicial law clerk in two federal courts, first with the Honorable Cynthia M. Rufe at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and later with the Honorable Jimmie V. Reyna of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...
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Chris McNett, Esq.
McKool Smith
Practice Area: Intellectual Property (+ 1 other areas)
Chris McNett is an associate at McKool Smith. He focuses his practice on patent litigation, and represents both patent owners and defendants in high-stakes patent litigation. He has experience litigating technologies ranging from standards essential wireless patents to monoclonal antibodies, and has been part of multiple trial teams winning nine-figure verdicts for patent owners. Mr. McNett also has significant experience with inter partes reviews and Section 337 investigations before the International Trade Commission.He served as a law clerk for the Honorable Jimmie V. Reyna at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and for the Honorable S. ...
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