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2025 Seminar: Best Practices When Working With Experts

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$270 for VA Members - Attorney
$165 for VA Members - Support Staff (paralegal, assistant)
$245 for NTL Attorney

300 minutes
Date Published

May 30, 2025

Publisher

Virginia Trial Lawyers Association

Subjects

Personal Injury

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Summary

Your case deserves the right experts, and you need to know how to effectively use them. The expert(s) you choose - and how you use those experts - can make, or break, your case. Transform how you work with expert witnesses in this intensive program designed exclusively for plaintiff attorneys. Learn battle-tested strategies for selecting, preparing, and presenting expert testimony that withstands scrutiny and persuades juries. This crash course, taught by experienced attorneys, will cover important planning topics, like selecting expert and drafting expert designations, as well as techniques to use at trial.  You'll master the art of turning complex expert testimony into compelling evidence that drives successful outcomes for your clients.

Who Should Attend: Any plaintiff’s attorney or paralegal, regardless of years of experience, working on personal injury, med mal, or product liability cases in Virginia.

Restricted to Plaintiff attorneys and staff only.

Topics At A Glance:

  • Direct Examination of Retained Experts
  • Cross Examination of Experts
  • Demonstrative Exhibits for Trial
  • How to Write an Appropriate Designation
  • Excluding Experts
  • Rule 4:10 Best Practices
  • How to Find and Retain the Best Experts for Your Case
  • Dealing with Difficult Experts
  • Federal Court Tips and Traps
  • Leveraging Medical Literature in Injury Cases

Recorded May 30, 2025

SWOD-25119

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Presenters

Les S. Bowers
MichieHamlett

Les Bowers is a trial lawyer who focuses his practice representing individuals injured in medical malpractice, catastrophic... Read More

Kari La Fratta
Allen, Allen, Allen and Allen

Kari La Fratta, Esq., is a trial attorney in the Charlottesville office of Allen & Allen with a background in insurance... Read More

Lee Floyd
Breit Biniazan

In 2024, Lee became the first woman in the country to obtain a nine-figure verdict in a sexual abuse case. As trial counsel... Read More

Derrick Walker
Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen

Derrick Walker, Esq., is a nationally recognized trial lawyer with a reputation as a courtroom powerhouse. Over the span of... Read More

Jonathan Petty

For his first decade in practice, Jonathan represented doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies involved in complex... Read More

Thomas A. FItzgerald, II

Tom Fitzgerald represents clients in personal injury litigation as a part of the Kalfus & Nachman firm. After receiving a... Read More

Annie Miller
MediVisuals + High Impact

Annie Miller brings years of client services and business development experience, spanning corporate and small business... Read More

Mike Shevlin
Shevlin Smith

Education: -University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, J.D. – 1992-Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame,... Read More

Justin Howard
McGuire Woods

In his vast experience defending complicated products liability and medical malpractice cases all over the United States,... Read More

Steven G. Friedman
Marks & Harrison

Steven G. Friedman, Esq., joined Marks & Harrison from the National Legal Research Group in Charlottesville where he has... Read More

Amy Griggs
Tysons Trial Law

Amy Griggs, Esq., founded Tysons Trial Law in the summer of 2023. Amy celebrated 20 years of practicing in civil litigation... Read More

David M. Irvine
Allen & Allen

David M. Irvine, Esq., is an experienced trial attorney in the Charlottesville, Virginia office of Allen & Allen.... Read More

JJ Siegner
Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen

JJ Siegner, Esq., is a personal injury attorney with Allen & Allen currently representing clients in the Petersburg and... Read More

Brewster S. Rawls

With over 30 years of experience exclusively as a litigation attorney, Brewster is among the most experienced medical... Read More

Lauren Davis

Lauren Davis, Esq., grew up in Franklin County, Virginia with the love and support of a large family. She did not go too far... Read More

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Program Titles and Supporting Materials

This program contains the following components:

Media Files
5 30 25 Experts Seminar
Downloadable Files
01 Direct Exam Floyd
02 Cross Exam Phelan Walker
03 Demonstratives Fitzgerald
04 Writing Designation Shevlin
06 Excluding Experts Howard
07 Rule 4 10 Friedman
08 Finding Retaining Griggs
09 Difficult Experts Irvine Siegner
10 Federal Rawls
11 Literature Davis
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Credit

If applicable, you may obtain credit in multiple jurisdictions simultaneously for this program (see pending/approved list below). If electing credit for this program, registrants in jurisdictions not listed below will receive a Certificate of Completion that may or may not meet credit requirements in other jurisdictions. Where applicable, credit will be only awarded to a paid registrant completing all the requirements of the program as determined by the selected accreditation authority.

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How to Attend

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