Effective Non-Verbal Skills Can be Learned
Are good experts born, or can they be trained? The skills that expert witnesses have to bring with them into the courtroom are just as sophisticated and subtle as those of the best litigators, and just as difficult to execute. For instance, good experts must appear self-confident – but not arrogant. Polite – but not obsequious. Well dressed – but not too flashy or slick.
Attorney Elliott Wilcox has some tips for expert witnesses on testifying. Mr. Wilcox has served as the lead trial lawyer in nearly 2oo jury trials and numerous non-jury trials. He cautions that this is just a quick primer:
By Alex Rosenberg
There are a number of steps one must take toward becoming more important as an appraiser. If one is a recognized specialist in a given field, he or she will be called upon either to act as an appraiser in important cases or act as an expert witness or both in cases involving large sums of money.
