Expert Witness in Business Litigation 2015

Highlights:

• Explore how to prepare powerful and defensible export reports
• Examine practical and real world issues related to retaining and using financial experts
• Uncover best practices for choosing and vetting an expert
• Explore the current rules and recent rulings on admissibility of expert evidence
• See effective techniques to challenge the expert’s evidence based on these rules
• Look at key elements and best practices for preparing an expert witness for direct & cross-examination
• Examine the crucial issue of credibility and bias in terms of expert evidence
• Explore how experts should communicate their science, opinions, technical limitations and degrees of certainty in light of the legal standards of proof.
• Get a general framework to prepare for and conduct examination-in-chief and cross-examination of expert witnesses at trial

Participants:

• Aitken Klee LLP
• Campbell Valuation Partners Limited
• Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP
• Dentons Canada LLP
• Ellyn Law LLP
• Lane Arbitration and Mediation Inc.
• LBC International Investigative Accounting Inc.
• Mamora Consulting
• Ricketts Harris LLP
• Roy O'Connor LLP
• Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh