EXPERT WITNESS MISTAKES THAT SINK OTHERWISE STRONG CASES
Even strong cases can unravel when expert witnesses become a liability. Sometimes the problem is obvious, such as an exclusion, a damaging deposition, or a credibility collapse at trial. More often, the damage starts quietly, long before an expert ever takes the stand.
To understand where these failures really come from, we spoke with Courtney Grubbs-Donovan and Celia Guo from Expert Institute, two leaders who oversee expert witness engagement from different sides of the process. Between them, they’ ve spent more than a decade working with attorneys and experts across high-stakes litigation, seeing firsthand how expert issues emerge— and how often they could have been avoided.
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