Inaugural Expert Witnesses in Business Litigation 2013

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

• Examine the role of engineering experts in real property-related litigation

• Get a general framework to prepare for and conduct examination-in-chief and cross-examination of expert

witnesses at trial

Participating Organizations:

• Barry Lebow Professional Practice Inc.

• Campbell Valuation Partners Limited

• Collins Barrow

• Ellyn Law LLP

• Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP

• Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP

• Heenan Blaikie LLP

• Giffin Koerth Forensic Engineering

• Lane Arbitration and Mediation Inc.

• Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP

• Mamora Consulting

• McMillan LLP

• Navigant Consulting Limited

• Norton Rose Canada LLP

• Ricketts Harris LLP