The Step-by-Step Guide to Create a Bullet-Proof Expert Report
"Learn the hard way or just read this."
Jerome H. Poliacoff, Ph.D
Your expert opinion is only as strong as your expert report. Opposing counsel can and will use every tactic, fair and unfair, to turn your own report against you. A well-written report is your first and best line of defense from such attacks. Equally important is your ability to recognize counsel’s tactics and neutralize them. Writing and Defending Your Expert Report: This Step-by-Step Guide with Models is the seminal work on how to craft and confidently and expertly defend your expert report. This required resource for all experts will teach you:
- Exactly how to write a powerful, persuasive and defensible report
- how much retaining counsel can assist you in writing your report
- The superfluous information and dangerous language that should be left out of your report
- Advanced techniques to defend against 40 of counsel’s most devastating tactics used to attack you through your report
- Legal requirements regarding Rule 26 expert reports and reports used in summary judgment motions, and
- The techniques used by a dozen leading experts to write and defend an expert report
Experts who write reports need to read this book.
Here’s what your colleagues have to say:
"Comprehensive, meticulously detailed and eminently practical. Bristling with lists, examples both model and horrible, caveats, pitfalls and key words. A classic of its kind. Most valuable are the hair-raising transcript excerpts."
Thomas G Gutheil, MD Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
"Clear, concise, and comprehensive! A must read."
Daniel Pacheco, P.E.
"…the rarest of legal works…fulfills a real need…organized in a user friendly format set forth in clear and graceful English."
William C. Lanham, Esq.
"Simply phenomenal!! It would take an expert of many years to discover all these pearls for her/himself…on second thought, you simply couldn’t come up with all this valuable information without this book."
Malin Dollinger, MD
"A great resource for professionals!"
Martha Sorensen, Ph.D
"An essential resource for any expert, novice and veteran."
Vince Gallagher
"Read It!!"
Ken MacKenzie, MCBA, FIBA, MBA
About The Authors: Steven Babitsky and James J. Mangraviti, Jr. are the nation’s leading and most prolific authors and trainers on expert witness issues. They are both former trial lawyers whose past texts include: How To Excel During Cross-Examination: Techniques for Experts that Work, How To Excel During Depositions: Techniques for Experts that Work, and The Comprehensive Forensic Services Manual: The Essential Resources for all Experts. Attorneys Babitsky and Mangraviti have trained thousands of experts on the skills needed to be more effective and better assist the Trier of fact.
Product description: This Step-by-Step Guide with Models is the seminal work on how to craft and confidently and expertly defend your expert report.
