In this webinar we will discuss:
- What does the Daubert trilogy stand for today?
- What instrumental role is Daubert playing in the trial courts today in terms of moving cases to settlement?
- What are the implications of Daubert for class certification?
- Do Daubert standards apply differently in Bench Trials?
- How Daubert applies to appellate review.
- Seminal cases in the Daubert area today.
Title:
Daubert in its 3rd Decade: Managing Litigation by Managing Expert Testimony
When/Where:
Monday, December 16, 2013
1:00pm ET
Webcast
Speakers:
- Paul Bernardini is a Vice President at DOAR Litigation Consulting. Paul serves on the leadership team at DOAR, where he works with many of the country’s largest law firms in complex litigation consulting, while bringing his depth of knowledge, vision, strategic and tactical perspectives on litigation trends as they occur throughout the U.S. Paul is an attorney and received his Law Degree from the City University of New York School of Law. He has written on the Daubert v. Merrell Dow case as well as for publications such as American Law Reports, and has lectured about the role of expert witnesses in litigation.
- David L. Faigman is the John F. Digardi Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law and Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy. He also holds an appointment as Professor in the School of Medicine (Dept. of Psychiatry) at the University of California, San Francisco. He received both his M.A. (Psychology) and J.D. from the University of Virginia. Professor Faigman clerked for the Honorable Thomas Reavley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is the author of numerous articles and essays. He is also the author of three books, Constitutional Fictions: A Unified Theory of Constitutional Facts (Oxford, 2008), Laboratory of Justice: The Supreme Court’s 200-Year Struggle to Integrate Science and the Law (Henry Holt & Co. 2004) and Legal Alchemy: The Use and Misuse of Science in the Law (W.H. Freeman,1999). In addition, Professor Faigman is a co-author/co-editor of the five-volume treatise Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony (with Blumenthal, Cheng, Mnookin, Murphy & Sanders). The treatise has been cited widely by courts, including several times by the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Faigman was a member of the National Academy of Sciences panel that investigated the scientific validity of polygraphs and he is a member of the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Network.
- Stephen Mahle is a commercial litigator who concentrates his practice on litigating scientific and damages expert testimony for law firms, insurance companies and other commercial entities. His practice centers on the evaluation, challenge and exclusion, (or proffer and admission), of scientific and other expert testimony under Daubert v. Merrell Dow and the other standards for admissibility of expert testimony. He is an economics PhD, was a finance professor at Virginia Tech and The University of Iowa, then Olin Scholar in Law and Economics at the University of Virginia School of Law. His work focuses on motions controlling admissibility of scientific and damages expert testimony and includes: securities and commodities litigation, including 10b-5, arbitration, and SRO proceedings; intellectual property, products liability, medical malpractice, construction defects, employment litigation, M&A and contract. This practice routinely involves econometric analysis of expert testimony and legal analysis of experts’ econometrics. Some of his work is collected at DaubertCounsel.com.
- New York Law Journal
- DOAR Litigation Consulting
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