Expert Depositions in Employment Litigation: Attacking an Opposing Expert's Qualifications, Opinions and Methodology
Obtaining Deposition Testimony to Support Daubert Challenges, Impeach the Expert at Trial, and Gain Settlement Leverage
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will arm employment litigators with strategies for deposing an opponent’s expert witness, focusing on how to successfully attack the expert’s qualifications, prior opinions, testimony and methodology. The panel will also provide tips for undermining an expert’s credibility at trial and obtaining admissions during depositions to leverage a favorable settlement.
Outline
- Preparing for the deposition
- Attacking the expert’s qualifications
- Prior opinions and testimony
- Deposing the expert
- Gathering testimony for a Daubert challenge
- Setting up the expert for impeachment at trial
- Identifying holes in opinions for settlement leverage
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- Preparing to attack the expert’s qualifications
- Locating expert’s prior opinions and testimony
- Attacking the expert’s methodology at the deposition
- Setting up deposition testimony for use in Daubert motions
- Increasing settlement value by discrediting the opposing expert
Faculty
Lynne Bernabei
Partner
Bernabei & Kabat
Ms. Bernabei has been litigating employment discrimination, civil rights, and whistleblower cases for over thirty... | Read More
Ms. Bernabei has been litigating employment discrimination, civil rights, and whistleblower cases for over thirty years. She is a founding partner of Bernabei & Kabat, PLLC, where she handles claims of civil rights violations, and discrimination cases across the country. Although the practice focuses on cases in state and federal court in the Mid-Atlantic region, she has also litigated cases in New York, California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and Arizona.
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John Houston Pope
Member
Epstein Becker & Green
Mr. Pope is a Member of the Firm in the Employee Benefits, Litigation, and Employment, Labor & Workforce Management... | Read More
Mr. Pope is a Member of the Firm in the Employee Benefits, Litigation, and Employment, Labor & Workforce Management practices, which predominately involves the litigation of controversies, representing management in all aspects of employment-related matters. He also counsels clients on lowering litigation risks and exposures. His extensive experience in employment law litigation spans a broad spectrum of issues, including promotion, termination, and harassment claims based on race, national origin, religion, sex, age, and disability; retaliation claims; whistleblower claims; wrongful discharge suits; and other employment-related torts. His cases have included single plaintiff, collective, and class actions.
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