A Leawood man entered a plea agreement with the state Friday evening after nearing the end of a week-long trial charging him with sex crimes. Dylan Zeller, 19, pleaded no ...

Expert witnesses are essential in many personal injury cases. When an issue or dispute is considered too complex for the ordinary juror to understand without the assistance of an expert, Illinois law ...

When an expert witness takes the stand to testify, he is a courtroom performer with an important privilege. Other witnesses are allowed to deal only with facts they have observed; the expert is often ...

In the aftermath of the guilty verdict in the trial of Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, a consistent element of many criminal trials came into sharp focus: the ...

The author proposes a rule amendment to preclude a "redo" of expert testimony. Simply stated: If a witness is unavailable, and a de bene esse deposition is completed, that witness cannot become ...

"To be sure, the absence of admissible expert testimony by an economist does not automatically foreclose an antitrust claim. But as a number of courts have observed, proof of antitrust injury ...

Don’t be surprised if soon there’s a supply chain shortage of expert witnesses for medical malpractice and other healthcare lawsuits. The scarcity would come from an upswing in demand that coincides ...

THE RANGE OF ACCOUNTING ISSUES involved in court disputes today covers so many aspects of finance that CPAs of all types may be qualified to offer expert witness services in one or more areas. BEING ...

What should we do when an expert witness provides incorrect or biased information in court? When people review exonerations of falsely convicted innocent people, bad forensic evidence and misleading ...