In high
stakes litigation, an expert’s testimony can be determinative of the outcome of
a case. It is of the utmost importance to ensure your expert is not only
qualified and experienced in their area of expertise, but has offered credible
testimony in past litigation
Using Docket
Alarm, you can quickly search for a particular individual and find all of their
litigation history in the US Court PACER database. Using terms and connectors,
you can conduct
a search of PACER dockets and documents that leverages the relationship
between the expert’s name and keywords indicative of the expert’s credibility.
A search for
the keyword “expert” within 20 words of the keyword “perjured” or the phrase
“not credible”, along with the expert’s name (e.g., “John Milton”) quickly returns
an opinion that addresses this particular expert’s veracity.
In Cedar
Petrochemicals, Inc. v. Dongbu Hannong Chemical Co., Ltd., the court goes into great detail
about this particular expert’s lack of credibility. The court addresses his
lack of involvement in initial and overall investigations, his
misrepresentations of reports he had authored, his lack of applicable or
academic experience regarding the subject matter in dispute, his inability to
tie his articles and reports to specific evidence regarding the matter at hand,
and his lack of experiential qualifications. See Cedar, 1:06-cv-03972, No. 182 at 21-22 (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 21,
2013).
You can
easily determine from this result that this particular expert is greatly
lacking in most of the basic qualifications needed for credible expert
testimony and has a propensity for overstatement and misrepresentation. Researching
an expert through Docket Alarm allows you to make fast, reliable judgment calls
on whether or not to hire an expert. Docket Alarm’s powerful search engine
reduces the laborious process of researching and vetting an expert to mere
minutes, saving you time, money and giving you confidence in your expert’s
testimony.
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