Summary
Expert Witness Training is packed with practical details and instruction about becoming, being, and succeeding as an expert witness. It features over 300 pages and more than 100 specific tactics for use by the specialist retained by an attorney as an expert witness. It teaches both the novice and the experienced expert how to think, act, and look like a confident expert witness. Buy this book to jumpstart a lucrative, second career as an expert witness. This comprehensive training program incorporates thorough explanations of qualifications, opinion formation and expression, testifying skills, witness credibility and jury persuasion. Expert Witness Training offers a wide-ranging reference for cost-effectively marketing to lawyers and working with these attorneys afterwards. Written in confident tutorial form by an experienced expert and teacher, Expert Witness Training includes the latest references and legal standards needed by a well trained expert witness for admissibility of evidence and testimony, as well as Federal Rules of Evidence and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and Daubert challenges. Twelve focused chapters offer guidance for the major activities and responsibilities of an expert witness, including conducting an expert investigation, writing an expert report, ethics of expert work, understanding the deposition process, the psychology and tactics of attorney questions, frequently asked testimonial questions, succeeding in the trial process, and effectively defending difficult questions during rigorous cross-examination. This book covers issues of importance to every expert from the perspective of the witness, along with perceptive insight into the attorney’s mindset. This book is for every expert who wishes to learn the psychological and testimonial talents needed by a credible expert witness. Attorneys wishing to learn what experienced expert witnesses know and think should buy their own copy and another one for each of their experts.
About the Author
Judd Robbins has been an internationally recognized expert witness since 1986 in more than 120 legal matters in the US and in the UK. He has testified in State and Federal courts throughout the United States and has been featured as a computer forensics expert and cyber sleuth on cable TV shows from MSNBC, Court TV, and Tech TV. His cases range widely from intellectual property infringement to murder. He has been a best-selling author of 30 computer training books for Sybex, Sams, McMillan, and Hayden. His books have been translated and sold in more than a dozen languages and foreign countries. He has created more than 25 training DVDs and videos on various computer subjects. Robbins has advanced degrees from UC Berkeley and the University of Michigan, has been an Information Systems manager and an Education Systems manager, and currently runs his own consulting and training company.
