PRATT MAKES CASE FOR EXPERT EVIDENCE ADMISSIBILITY RULES

Tim Pratt argues for adoption of the clarifying amendment on Rule 702 and similar state expert evidence rules in the current issue of Today’s General Counsel.   Pratt highlights the “alarming number of opinions from trial judges that have held that questions relating to the sources of the expert’s opinion affect the weight, not the admissibility of that testimony,” citing LCJ’s groundbreaking 2020 study of misapplication of Rule 702.

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