ABSTRACT
When I entered teaching in 1972 I knew, based on my experience as a practicing trial lawyer, that there was a great need to familiarize professionals of all types with the process of giving expert testimony in legal proceedings. A course on that subject was one of the first that I developed, and I have taught it in alternate years ever since, attracting graduate and professional students from the entire Michigan State University campus. Starting in 1977 I also have given a two-day continuing education version of that course at various locations around the U.S. and under contract to many government agencies. This book is a revised version of the readings assigned to the students in that course, along with some of the professorial oral commentary. The book is divided into three major parts — procedural issues that an expert witness might need to understand; evidentiary issues that the expert witness might need to understand; and some hints for witnesses based on my experience as a trial lawyer.
