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Intensive workshop on how to make your CV as resistant as possible to questioning during cross-examination. Volunteers will be cross-examined on their actual CVs which will be submitted in advance. The attendees' CVs will be critiqued for areas of improvement by fellow attendees and faculty.

Faculty will discuss how to formulate and present your medical opinion from a position of strength. A hands-on demonstration will highlight the optimal techniques for forming, presenting, and defending your opinion.

Physicians will learn what a high quality, defensible report should and should not contain. Volunteer attendees will have the opportunity to be cross-examined by counsel on their actual report submitted as part of the pre-summit task assignments.

An in-depth, frank discussion of these bottom-line issues. Faculty will present its views on how physicians can maximize their fees and ensure that they are promptly paid for their time. Attendees will also learn from each other as each will be called upon to share his or her fee setting and billing practices.

Faculty presentations on how to best communicate to a jury during direct examination will be followed by hands-on demonstrations. In these demonstrations, faculty will examine volunteer attendees on fact patterns which were pre-submitted by the volunteer attendees.

Faculty presentations on how to best deal with cross-examination will be followed by hands-on demonstrations. In these demonstrations, faculty will examine volunteer attendees on fact patterns which were pre-submitted by the volunteer attendees.

Faculty and attendees will identify the most difficult trick questions that can be asked expert medical witnesses. These questions will be identified by each attendee in their pre-summit task assignments. The entire group will then work together to determine the most artful possible truthful responses to these questions.

An in-depth discussion by faculty of what they are looking for in selecting expert witnesses, and how they decide how much they are willing to pay for an expert's services. Attendees will be encouraged to question the faculty.

A presentation by faculty of how they select expert witnesses is followed by a frank discussion with the group.  Group members will be asked to briefly share the most effective methods they have developed to market their services. An in-depth discussion of the pros and cons of the numerous marketing techniques available will be facilitated.

Faculty and the group will identify and discuss the 10 biggest ethical dilemmas facing expert medical witnesses. A discussion aimed at finding the solutions to these dilemmas will then be facilitated.

Faculty presentations on how to best answer questions during depositions will be followed by hands-on demonstrations. In these demonstrations, faculty will depose volunteer attendees on fact patterns which were pre-submitted by the volunteer attendees.

Through didactic presentations and mock trial demonstrations students will learn the most challenging tactics counsel uses to assault an expert during cross-examination and, more importantly, specific advise on how to defend against each and every one of these tactics.

Faculty will explain and demonstrate how attendees can become the rarest and most valuable of all medical experts � a medical expert capable of turning the tables on opposing counsel.