Tag Archives: Daubert
Michele Miles: When Picking a Financial Expert, Beware of Hormonal Imbalances
By Tom Hagy Battle metaphors are frequent when talking about litigation and trials. Verbs like kill, shoot, crush, and destroy are not uncommon. Michele G. Miles, both a J.D. and accredited business appraiser, sees a danger in taking the macho metaphors too far, especially when they affect the conduct of a financial expert. [...]
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Daubert Attacks Go Beyond Experts to the Supporting Data
OCALA, FLA. – In an interesting twist to what’s becoming the standard Daubert challenge, the party opposing the financial expert in this case not only attacked the reliability of his opinions but also moved to exclude the mortgage pricing data on which he based his calculations, claiming that the provider should have been disclosed as [...]
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Fierce Daubert Challenge Fails, Court Says Wait for Trial
A recent case out of federal court in Louisiana isn’t groundbreaking or unusual, but is illustrative of how attorneys swat at financial expert witnesses like low-hanging piñatas. In a case where the value of an engineering firm came into play, the plaintiff aimed its Daubert challenge at defense expert Kim Early CPA, MBA, calling [...]
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Lack of Very Specific Experience Beats Expert’s Knowledge, Diligence in Painstaking Daubert Review
Baldwin v. Bader, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 56236 or 2008 WL 2875351 PORTLAND, Me.—This is the Maine federal court’s second look at what it called a close and difficult question—the valuation of personal guaranties given by company insiders to secure financing. The first review came on a motion to exclude expert testimony that valued personal [...]
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Chinese Drywall Litigation & Insurance Coverage Update
Date: July 28, 2009 – AN AUDIOCAST
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Chinese Drywall Litigation & Insurance Coverage Update Conference
Date: November 11, 2009
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Pharmaceutical Litigation: A Crash Course for Associates & Paralegals
What Every New Pharmaceutical Lawyer or Paralegal Should Know
Date: October 28, 2009
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Chinese Drywall Insurance: Exclusions, Triggers & Multiple Claims
Date: February 16, 2010
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