10/23/2025· Investigation & Surveillance
The Investigation Of Self-Defense Asserted Homicides
The purpose of any investigation is a search for the truth. The goal of any investigation and/or resultant adjudication should be the presentation of unbiased facts and evidence and their presentation to a prosecutor. The advocacy for the investigators and prosecutors should ultimately be
10/21/2025· Expert Witnessing
Building Expert Witness Trust: The Psychology of Online Presence
By: Lili Zumout, MS
Introduction For expert witnesses, marketing looks quite different than it does to most professionals. You’re not selling a product, or even a service in the traditional sense. You’re selling yourself and your credibility. It’s important for attorneys to believe you’re the right person to support their case long before you write your report, enter a deposition, or step foot in a courtroom.
9/28/2025· Jails - Prisons - Correctional Facilities
Fentanyl Overdoses And Deaths In Jails And Prisons
By: Joseph E. Gunja
As an expert in jails and prisons for over seventeen (17) years I have seen various trends involving significant issues which have placed jails and prisons in civil and criminal litigation. In the past several years incarcerated men and women have entered facilities while addicted and withdrawing from fentanyl,
9/15/2025· Expert Witnessing
Best Practices For Verifying An Expert Witness In Background Screening
Attorneys often use evidence and eyewitnesses when presenting court cases. But an expert witness who provides insider knowledge and credible, convincing testimony can help attorneys win cases. However, the wrong expert witness can potentially break a case.
9/11/2025· Plastic / Reconstructive / Cosmetic Surgery
Healing Bullet Wounds: The Role of Plastic Surgery
Bullet wounds are devastating injuries that inflict significant physical damage. However, the impact goes far beyond the initial trauma. Survivors often face long-term challenges with mobility, function, and appearance. Fortunately, modern medicine offers a powerful tool for recovery: reconstructive plastic surgery.
8/18/2025· Speech-Language Pathology
Resuscitative Efforts Can Mimic a Choking Death
By: Megan M. Hamilton, MS, CCC-SLP
A person found in bed with food in their mouth, pale and pulseless is often assumed to have choked to death. Likewise, food items found in the larynx (entry to the windpipe) during CPR, suctioning or autopsy can appear to confirm asphyxiation by choking on food. Both scenarios may, in fact, be due to death by choking
8/18/2025· Construction
Construction Problems With Mandatory Start And Finish Constraints
A critical path method (CPM) schedule or programme is a dynamic planning tool that engineering and construction industry planners and schedulers commonly use to manage, coordinate, and forecast work activities based on activity durations and logic. It is paramount that a CPM schedule accurately calculate forecasted dates
8/14/2025· Expert Witnessing
Leveraging the Expert: How Soon Is Too Soon?
By: Beth Mohr, CFE, CAMS, CCCI
Is it ever too soon to start seeking out an expert? If you’re going to specialize in a particular area of criminal defense law, it might be worth your time to seek out experts in that specialty even before you have a client. When it comes to engaging an expert, whether as a consultant or as a testifying expert, the earlier in the case..
7/15/2025· Expert Witnessing
AI Expert Conflicts: Trade Secrets vs. Witness Qualification
What if you’re a lawyer in a major AI-copyright litigation and you find the ideal expert witness, but the expert turns out to be an “activist” researcher focused on destroying the technology built by your opposition? How does his professional bias and lack of impartiality affect your case? What do you do with this allegedly ideal expert witness? We delve into this below. First, however, some background.
6/29/2025· Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
A large, multi-national consumer products company had a fragmented and inefficient operating model. With operations in more than 30 countries, the company was not leveraging its size to achieve process efficiencies or economies of scale. In essence, it was operating as 30 different companies.
