Patent Law

The American Bar Association Section of Family Law and the Center for Continuing Legal Education are sponsoring this teleconference and live audio webcast on September 16, 2009.

Program Description

Expert testimony is often a key component of evidence at trial. An expert, if used effectively, can be persuasive in a manner that enables the trier of fact to reach the correct conclusions. Most seasoned trial attorneys have had at least one experience in which an expert "crashed and burned" at trial. Sometimes it is the expert's lack of skill, experience or preparation that gives rise to the disaster. Other times, however, the expert's ineffectiveness is a direct result of factors and dynamics controllable by counsel. In this session we will identify common events that neutralize otherwise professionally competent experts and explore how to prevent them.

Faculty

• Peter M. Walzer (Moderator) is the founding partner of the Southern California law firm Walzer & Melcher LLP.

• Michael Kaplan is principal of Kaplan Abraham Burkert Associates, Forensic Valuation Consultants and senior advisor to Freeman & Mills, Inc.
• Carlton R. Marcyan is a senior partner and Executive Committee Chair of the firm of Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP, the largest matrimonial law firm in the Nation.

More details and registration are available here.