Dorothy Clay Sims · Dr. Oregon Hunter
TLU Live Vegas 2024 REPLAY - Experts and the Science: Arming Yourself to Bolster PL Experts and Waste the Defense’s PARTS 1 & 2
March 4, 2025 6:30 PM||TLU n Demand
Registering for this webinar will give you access to watch both parts. Part 1 will be played on Mar 3rd, and Part 2 will be played on Mar 4th.
We’re in a new world of how jurors respond to science and expert testimony, making science in trial a more dangerous crap-shoot than ever. This session will include showing you how to ferret out and undermine defense junk science, how to frame the requirements and standards science into easily understood – and universally accepted -- rules that let jurors discern for themselves junk and fraud science, and how to frame and fortify your own experts to be solidly clear and trustworthy even to today’s most skeptical jurors. In brief; reveal junk for what it is, and convincingly demonstrate show the good stuff’s accuracy.
Topics include:
- Science/experts in today’s environment
- Using AI to show complex science so jurors understand it
- Framing cross-examinations of defense experts.
- Analyzing defense experts and science for weaknesses and errors
- How to find, read, and analyze defense “authoritative” articles
- What to subpoena from authors of articles
- Common errors to avoid in presenting scientific issues
- How to present good experts
- Arming your experts for cross
- Pre-empting cross-exam questions in direct
- Framing defense-expert testimony so jurors make their own conclusions that it’s not reliable and is likely intentionally fraudulent
- Using AI to understand the science yourself
- Using Daubert and science standards and requirements on jurors, not just judges.
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