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Knowing Your Rights to Save Your Job   If you find you’re being asked questions that might lead to disciplinary action or criminal prosecution: Ask if you are at risk of disciplinary action. Ask [...]

Knowing Your Rights Can Save Your Job (P2) You Have The Right: To know if you are under investigation To representation before answering questions To tape record any questioning To have copies of [...]

The Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights gives first responders the strongest on-the-job protections in California. Its signing in 2007 caps a two-decade fight by labor groups to bring [...]

Things to Consider Before Becoming an Expert Witness Be sure you are comfortable going through a deposition or trail and having your personal and professional record scrutinized by an adversarial [...]

  In expert witness factors to consider part 1, I identified 5 factors to consider in order to be hired as an expert witness. They are: Experience in the field Published work in national [...]

I have listed 5 factors to consider when hiring or being hired as an expert witness. Experience in the field Published work in national journals, trade publications or books. Speaking engagements [...]

Expert Witness Roles Having been an expert witness for several years, I realize that the expert witness plays a critical role in the judicial process. The expert witness testimony, if correctly [...]

Below are tips to give a prospective client a good impression of you: Be on time Be prepared. Prior to the meting review any material you might have. Be an active listener. Ask questions if you [...]

Practice makes perfect. I have found that an expert witness improve testimony by practice. Lawyers can set up mock trials, where the mock jury can observe the expert witness. The mock trial [...]

To be successful as an expert witness one needs to be prepared. I have been up against expert witnesses that were not prepared. At trial it caused major issues for the opposing side. The case [...]