Expert Witness Practice Development/Management

10 Ways Expert Witnesses Can Protect Themselves From a Successful Daubert Challenge Expert witnesses of all disciplines including accountants, engineers, appraisers, physicians, patent experts, damages experts, etc. are increasingly facing Daubert challenges. In a Daubert challenge opposing counsel will generally file a motion to disqualify the expert witness. This motion to disqualify will allege that [...]

We have noticed an interesting new trend, i.e. more and more lawyers are acting as expert witnesses. Some of these lawyers supplement their legal careers by also acting as expert witnesses while some have left their legal practice behind and are acting as expert witnesses on a full-time basis. The most common areas for lawyers [...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTbHFu6cGPY&t=49s My name is Steve Babitsky, I'm the president of SEAK Incorporated, and we're here today with Attorney James Mangraviti from SEAK and we're going to be talking about how to get started as an expert witness. So Jim, let's start off by asking what does an expert witness do? James Mangraviti: Good question. So [...]

How to Write a Curriculum Vitae (CV) For Expert Witness Work    Download SEAK's Free Whitepaper: How Much Should an Expert Witness Charge? Hi, my name is Steve Babitsky. I'm the President of SEAK, and I'm here today with Attorney James Mangraviti from SEAK. We're going to be talking about a curriculum vitae for expert [...]

Abuse of expert witnesses is very common according to James J. Mangraviti Jr., Esq. Here is what attorney Mangraviti had to say about this abuse.  Q. Attorney Mangraviti, how common is abuse of expert witnesses by retaining counsel? All too common.  When I teach and mentor expert witnesses I emphasize to them that they are [...]