Wills, Estates and Trusts Conference: Estate Litigation
Course Date: November 4, 2005
Wills, Estates and Trusts Conference: Estate Litigation
Course Date: November 4, 2005
7:45 – 8:45 am
OPTIONAL ETHICS SESSION: “CLE-TV: Ethical Issues—Ask the Experts 2011”
- World-class expert introduced (30+ clips of trial testimony)
- Cross-examiner’s problems
- Expert's pedestal and expert's problems
- The structure of every opinion: O = R + 2F
- End point opinions, subordinate opinions, and bedrock findings and assumptions
- Critical listening skills (a quick test)
- The every-case-forever, schematic chart introduced
- Five categories of expert opinions
- Ten types of expert rules
- X and Y factors defined
- Scientific vs. experiential rules (science vs. art)
- Non-expert rules and the cloak of expertise
- Expert's rule's essential factors ("necessary" and "sufficient")
- Expert's weighing process
- Critical listening skills (2nd quick test)
- Two incredibly important—and easy to master—techniques
Lunch (on your own): 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Attacks vs. expert’s X factors
- The certainty scale and two archetypal arguments
- Six sources of assumptions
- Attacking expert’s findings derived through expert methods
- Attacking expert’s findings derived through non-expert methods
- Expert's self-anointed pedestal-status (3rd quick test)
- Expert's three attacks vs. Y factors
- relevance
- not established
- weight
- The Perfection line of questioning
- Attacking expert's double standard re career
- Attacking expert's double standard re case
4:30 p.m. Adjourn
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