How Attorneys Think and Write and Why It Matters To You As An Expert Witness

Date: Nov. 15 at 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. CT 

Speaker: Cris Vaughan

Learning Objectives:

• Become familiar with the IRAC (Issue, Rule, Analysis, Conclusion) and CRAC (Conclusion, Rule, Analysis, Conclusion) analysis methods used by attorneys
• Understand how an expert can use these methods to provide effective expert witness services
• Understand how to effectively communicate with the retaining attorney by using IRAC or CRAC
• Observe how to use IRAC or CRAC in a sample expert witness case

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A criminal trial involving conspiracy charges against former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder is causing a controversy around the proper role of expert witnesses. The prosecution and the defense both propose to use expert witnesses to explain the political background underlying the charge, but each side claims that the other side’s experts have nothing relevant to contribute.

Nina Rodd, Ph.D is a clinical and forensic psychologist. She has been a mental health professional for 39 years, working in clinical and hospital settings, as well as teaching clinical and forensic psychology graduate courses at several universities. Nina is frequently retained as an expert witness mainly in civil cases where there are claims of psychological trauma and injury as the result of sexual harassment at work, discrimination in employment, wrongful termination, police misconduct, severe accidents, medical malpractice, and wrongful death.

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A new initiative has launched to address the disproportionate number of female expert witness and increase the number of women acting as expert witnesses in court cases and arbitrations.

Presenting peer-reviewed literature that contradicts an opposing expert’s opinion can make the difference between winning and losing a motion to exclude.

“The mental status examination is often discussed by expert witnesses in court as if it is an objective measure. It is not, and this use can confuse the trier of fact,” asserts forensic psychologist and Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Martin Williams.

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