LIVE REPLAY: Ethics of Working with Experts
May 2012
LIVE REPLAY: Ethics of Working with Experts
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Program Description:
Witnesses can be paid for their time, not their testimony. That seemingly simple ethical rule gives rise to a host of practical problems. If money is paid for time, how do you measure the value of the time of an expert? How do you know when the compensation paid stops being for the time spent testifying or preparing and starts being for the testimony itself? The line is blurry and subject to dispute. Beyond questions of time and money, can you confer with witnesses during breaks in their testimony? There are also questions about the extent to which attorneys are ethically bound to correct the misstatements of witnesses. These and many other important ethical questions will be discussed in this real world guide to the ethics of working with and preparing witnesses.
- Ethics of paying and preparing witnesses
- Drawing the ethical line between paying for time versus testimony
- Conferring with witnesses about their testimony during breaks
- Ethical duty to correct misstatements of witnesses
- Online and social media posting of videotaped depositions to embarrass opponents
- Ethics of using inadvertently produced information
Faculty:
John M. Barkett is a partner in the Miami office of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, where his litigation practice encompasses contract disputes, employment, antitrust, trademark and environmental and toxic tort litigation. He also has a substantial practice as an arbitrator, mediator, facilitator and allocator in a variety of substantive contexts. He is former co-chair of the Environmental Litigation Committee of the ABA's Section of Litigation. Mr. Barkett serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Notre Dame University and his J.D. from Yale Law School.
Registration Fees
| Non Member | $109.00 |
| CBA | $89.00 |
| CLEACCESSPASS | $49.00 |
- General Credits: 1.00
- Ethics Credits: 1.00
- EDI Credits:
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