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Civil Litigation -
Expert Witness Depositions - Discovery

Northern California Civil Litigation Information

Many cases involve matters which require specialized knowledge or expertise but which are not necessarily legal matters. For example, most attorneys do not have engineering or other scientific expertise regarding issues which may be relevant to your lawsuit. Thus, your attorney may retain an expert consultant whose job is to analyze certain evidence in reference to their area of expertise and provide an "expert opinion" concerning a particular matter involved in your lawsuit. For example, if you are a tradesman or other contractor and a plaintiff alleges that your work is defective, you may need a consultant who is an expert in your field of work in order to evaluate your work and determine whether or not, in the consultant's opinion, your work met the standard of care required for your particular trade or activity.

Attorneys often hire one or more "consultants" to help investigate particular aspects of the case which may require specialized knowledge such as medical issues, engineering issues and issues unique to certain professions and businesses. Such consultants can also testify at trial concerning their opinions on such issues, so long as the judge determines they have demonstrated the requisite level of expertise in their particular field.

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