Expert Witness Practice Development/Management

Please join us for How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Expert Witness Practice  on Thursday-Friday, January 23-24, 2014 in San Diego, California. This is SEAK’s signature expert witness practice management training program. It is designed for both prospective and experienced expert witnesses. We will show you: How to exceed the expectations of retaining [...]

Expert witnessing can be an excellent way for professors to supplement their incomes.  Expert witnesses earn hundreds of dollars per hour for their time (I recently had a marketing professor in my class who billed his time out at $650/hour).  Best of all, most expert witness work consists of research, document review, report writing and [...]

We are often asked if retired people can do expert witness work.  The short answer is, yes.  Expert witnesses in Federal Court are governed by Federal Rule of Evidence 702, which states: Rule 702. Testimony by Expert Witnesses A witness who is qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education may testify [...]

Succession Planning: Positioning Your Expert Witness Practice for Reduced Workload, Takeover, or Eventual Sale Steven Babitsky, Esq.   Many expert witnesses do not adequately plan for the potential sale of their forensic practices. Here are the 10 Biggest Mistakes Experts Make in Transition/Succession Planning:   Mistake #1 Thinking that their skills are so unique they [...]

  SEAK has just launched a new resource designed to provide information and other resources to trial attorneys and expert witness on expert witness related topics. Please take a moment to take a look:  SEAK Expert Witness Directory Blog

  SEAK has announced that its highly acclaimed interactive training program, How to Be an Effective Expert Witness, will be offered on Thursday and Friday September 19-20, 2013 at the Sea Crest Beach Hotel in Falmouth, MA.  How to Be an Effective Expert Witness is a small group, hands-on, fast-moving interactive workshop covering deposition, direct [...]

SEAK’s Jim Mangraviti had the pleasure of teaching How to Start, Build, and Run a Forensic Engineering Practice for the American Society of Civil Engineers on March 21-22, 2013 in Oak Brook, IL.  Jim has been teaching continuing education courses for ASCE since 2000.  In this fast moving interactive seminar, a group of experienced civil [...]

Expert Witnesses’ Self-Inflicted Wounds By: Steven Babitsky, Esq. Many expert witnesses create problems for themselves with the things they say in their CVs, webpages, and reports. All of these self-created problems are completely avoidable with a little judicious self-editing. Here are just a few examples of some of these self-inflicted wounds that I have come [...]