An attorney's view on selecting Daubert proof experts

Evan Schaeffer, an attorney at Schaefeer and Lamere in Godfrey, Illinois, and the blawger of The legal underground, blawgcast.com, and Illinois Trial Practice offers about 9 great tips on selecting expert witnesses that should survive a Daubert related challenges of their qualifications. The tips are based on paper presented by Vance Andrus, Richard Arsenault, and Donald Marks, M.D., at a Mealey's litigation conference. Some of the tips however will need to be adjusted for non-medical experts.

For instance, one of the tips found on the post, suggests that the attorney should look for experts who have written on the precise topic involved in the case. However, in the economic damage realm it is relatively rare for economists to actually write or publish articles on the precise damage issue that is involved in the case.