LNP 117 Best Practices When an Attorney Takes an Expert Witness Deposition

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If you listened to Lorraine Doonan speak in LNP 116, you know she has had some trying testifying experiences as have I. I put this podcast together to focus on what you can expect in an expert witness deposition.

Listen in as Pat Iyer chats about these points:

• The purposes of an expert witness deposition
• Showing the expert’s bias or otherwise undermining the expert’s credibility
• Gaining concessions from the expert to help prove the attorney’s points
• Obtaining as much information as possible regarding the expert’s opinions and the basis for them
• Attempting to get the expert to support even a small part of the attorney’s case
• Discovering the weaknesses in the attorneys’ own client’s case
• Judging the demeanor of the expert

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Pat Iyer has been a legal nurse consultant since 1987. She built a successful LNC business that included being an expert witness and testifying in expert witness depositions for 25 years.