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• A Golden Rule for Hiring an Expert ( April 2007 )
  

  When hiring an expert, the most important quality to look for is someone who presents well, litigator Christopher A. Riley believes. Assess how he speaks, how he appears, and his degree of comfort with himself and his area of expertise.

• 'Gatekeeper' Review Must Be More Than Cursory ( May 2006 )
  

  A federal judge's one-sentence conclusion that a witness qualified to testify as an expert was not enough to show that he had correctly exercised his "gatekeeper" function under Daubert, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided.

• My Kingdom for an Expert! ( February 2005 )
  

  Today, more than at any other time in the history of our profession, many cases are won or lost on the testimony of the expert witness. So, exactly what does an "expert" look like, and how do you find the right one? By definition, an expert is a person with specialized knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education which qualifies that person to form helpful opinions for a party in anticipation for litigation or preparation for trial.

• Calhoun v. Yamaha Motor Corporation:Third Circuit Upholds Defense Verdict on Proper Application of Federal Rule of Evidence 702 ( December 2003 )
  

  On November 18, 2003, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the judgment of the United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in <i>Calhoun v. Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., et al.</i>. The unanimous three-judge panel affirmed the lower court’s decision to limit plaintiffs’ experts’ testimony because “an expert may be generally qualified but may lack qualifications to testify outside his area of expertise.”

• Corporate Governance Seminar. Seminar Summary of Richard Langan of Nixon Peabody LLP ( August 2003 )
  

  Richard Langan, Business Practice Group Leader at Nixon Peabody LLP, shared his insights on counseling the audit committee with attendees of FindLaw’s Corporate Governance seminar in New York. Mr. Langan observed that although corporate governance rule-making in light of Sarbanes-Oxley has taken some time for companies to synthesize, most companies have found that the changes can be incorporated into dayto- day activities at the board and audit committee level.

• Should I Accept that Invitation to be an Audit Committee Financial Expert? ( June 2003 )
  

  As mandated in Section 407 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the SEC adopted rules and amendments requiring each Securities and Exchange Commission reporting company to disclose whether it has at least one "audit committee financial expert" serving on its audit committee and, if so, the name of the expert and whether the expert is independent of management.

• Expert Courtroom Testimony in the Closed-Head Injury Case ( June 1999 )
  

  CLOSED HEAD INJURY is poorly understood by the public in general and by juries of laypersons in particular. It is .