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The Art and Science of Expert Witness Testimony: A Multidisciplinary Guide for Professionals

The Art and Science of Expert Witness Testimony: A Multidisciplinary Guide for Professionals

Author: Karen Postal
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367491598
Published In: September 2021
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Disclaimer:
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Featuring in-depth interviews of attorneys, judges, and seasoned forensic experts from multiple disciplines including psychology, medicine, economics, history, and neuropsychology, The Art and Science of Expert Witness Testimony highlights and offers bridges for the areas where the needs and expectations of the courtroom collide with experts’ communication habits developed over years of academic and professional training.

Rather than seeing testimony as a one-way download from expert to jurors, The Art and Science of Expert Witness Testimony focuses on the direct, dynamic, unique communication relationship that develops as each juror’s lived experience interacts with the words of experts on the stand. This book expands the academic tradition of "methods-centered credibility" to also include "person-centered credibility," where warmth, confidence, and relentless attention to detail build trust with jurors. Seasoned forensic experts share what they actually say on the stand: their best strategies and techniques for disrupting traditional academic communication and creating access to science and professional opinions with vivid, clear language and strong visuals. The difficult but necessary emotional work of the courtroom is addressed with specific techniques to regulate emotions in order to maintain person-centered credibility and keep the needs of jurors front and center through cross-examination.

This innovative compilation of research is essential reading for professionals and practitioners, such as physicians, engineers, accountants, and scientists, that may find themselves experts in a courtroom. The Art and Science of Expert Witness Testimony provides a unique experience for readers, akin to being personally mentored by over eighty-five attorneys, judges, and seasoned experts as they share their observations, insights, and strategies—not to "win" as a defense, prosecution, or plaintiff expert, but to be productive in helping jurors and other triers of fact do their difficult intellectual job in deciding a case.

1. Expert Witnesses Have a Direct, Dynamic, and Unique Relationship with Each Juror

2. Person-Centered Credibility in Expert Witness Testimony

3. Setting the Truth on Fire: Disrupting Traditional Academic Communication Patterns During Expert Witness Testimony

4. Planning Direct Expert Witness Testimony

5. Social Communication During Expert Witness Testimony: The Language Behind Our Words Matters

6. Maintaining Person-Centered Credibility on Cross-Examination is Difficult but Necessary Emotional Work

7. Expert Witness Testimony During Depositions

8. Training to Improve Expert Witness Communication Skills

Appendix: Some Really Great Metaphors, Analogies, And Succint, Accessible Explanations

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