Robert Musante: Attacking the Expert

When:  Dec 30, 2015 from 09:00 AM to 04:30 PM (ET)
Moderator/Speaker:
Robert Musante

About The Program:

There is one right, logical method with which to effectively attack the purported scientific merits of adverse expert’s opinion … no matter the field of expertise. As litigators from all areas of practice have attested, this seminar elucidates that logical method and teaches the archetypal set of integrated questions that are at the heart of every great deposition (and every great trial cross-examination) of the witness who has been paid to demolish your case theory. Never again be intimidated when cross-examining any expert.

Program Agenda:
9:00 • "Mt. Olympus" expert introduced
• Deposition cross-examination logic applied to experts
• When attacks vs. expert should be played at deposition
• The structure of every opinion: O = R + 2F
• End point opinions & subordinate opinions
• Bedrock finding & bedrock assumptions
• Seminar's case facts explained
• Cross-examiner's critical listening skills
10:00 Break
10:10 • The schematic every-case-forever chart introduced
• Five categories of expert opinions
• Two must-be-asked questions
• Ten types of expert rules
• X and Y factors defined
11:20 Break
11:30 • Scientific rules & Sir Francis Bacon
• Experiential rules (the "trust-me" expert)
• The scope of expert's expertise
• Non-expert rules
• Expert's weighing process
• Cross-examiner's critical listening skills (again)
12:30 Luncheon
1:30 • Two incredibly important - and easy to master - techniques
• Attacks vs. expert's claims re X factors
• The "certainty scale" and two archetypal arguments
• Six sources of assumptions
• Seven potential flaws re the expert's assumption
2:50 Break
3:00 • Attacking expert's findings derived through expert means
• Attacking expert's findings derived through non-expert means
• Expert's three - and only three - attacks vs. Y factors:
    - Relevance
    - Not established
    - Weight
• Attacking expert's double standard re case/career
• The perfection line of questioning
4:30 Adjourn

CLE Credits:
NJ CLE information: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 7.3 hours of total CLE credit.

NJ CLE :

 This program has been approved for 7.3 credits (50 minute hour)
PA CLE: 6.0 substantive credits pending ($24 fee – separate check payable to NJICLE must be submitted at the end of the program)

NY CLE (t&nt):

 7.0 professional practice credits

Door Registration: $320
ISCIV156715

Location

555 Fellowship Rd
Mount Laurel, NJ 08054-3404