Inaugural Expert Witnesses in Business Litigation 2013

Highlights:
• Explore how to prepare powerful and defensible export reports
• Examine practical and real world issues related to retaining and using financial experts
• Uncover best practices for choosing and vetting an expert
• Explore the current rules and recent rulings on admissibility of expert evidence
• See effective techniques to challenge the expert’s evidence based on these rules
• Look at key elements and best practices for preparing an expert witness for direct & cross-examination
• Examine the crucial issue of credibility and bias in terms of expert evidence
• Explore how experts should communicate their science, opinions, technical limitations and degrees of

certainty in light of the legal standards of proof
• Examine the role of engineering experts in real property-related litigation
• Get a general framework to prepare for and conduct examination-in-chief and cross-examination of expert

witnesses at trial

Participating Organizations:
• Barry Lebow Professional Practice Inc.
• Campbell Valuation Partners Limited
• Collins Barrow
• Ellyn Law LLP
• Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
• Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP
• Heenan Blaikie LLP
• Giffin Koerth Forensic Engineering
• Lane Arbitration and Mediation Inc.
• Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP
• Mamora Consulting
• McMillan LLP
• Navigant Consulting Limited
• Norton Rose Canada LLP
• Ricketts Harris LLP