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.
5/23/2025· Pharmacy & Pharmacology
Patient Roles in Antibiotic Management at the Hospital-to-Home Transition
There are many opportunities to improve patient-led antibiotic MM at the hospital-to-home transition. Mismatches between patient perceptions and patient experiences around antibiotic MM at the hospital-to-home transition provide opportunities for health system improvement.
5/23/2025· Product Liability
Managing NPD Project Tradeoffs
The NPD Project PentagonTM offers those involved in bringing new products to market who face numerous tradeoffs a way to frame their decisions. While this is a binary view, and often reality is highly multivariate, it still offers a useful tool in managing the inevitable NPD project tradeoffs. On your next NPD project, consider how the NPD Project PentagonTM would help in better managing your projects' tradeoffs.
4/30/2025· Architecture
Embracing Best Practices in Local Construction
By: Christopher D. Ling, AIA, NCARB
This piece delves into the essence of best practices, elucidating how local contractors' skills, experiences, and comfort zones significantly influence the success of a project. It underscores the importance of architects being attuned to the local trade practices to ensure project success for the owner.
4/21/2025· Medical Malpractice
The Medicolegal Expert - It's A Protection Racket
By: Shawn Hayden, MD, PhD, MBA
Generally a medical expert witness is a qualified and experienced healthcare professional who provides their opinion in legal proceedings based on their expertise in a particular field of medicine. Their testimony assists in clarifying complex medical issues for judges and juries.
4/21/2025· Expert Witnessing
Bottom Line: Experts Need to Practice Long Term Marketing
By: Hana Zumout, MS
Long–term marketing is essential for building a successful practice, and it’s something every expert witness should prioritize. If you want to learn how to secure growth and visibility for your practice, watch Episode 5 of The Expert Edge, or read the rest of this article!
4/21/2025· Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML)
The Hidden IP Risk Of Using AI With Independent Contractors
If your company relies on independent professionals—and especially if you use AI to analyze or optimize their output—there’s a growing compliance risk you may not have considered: your current contractor agreements may expose you to large-scale liability in an AI-enabled world.
4/21/2025· Ethics / Ethical Duties
California's Rules of Professional Conduct Makeover
The new Rules of Professional Conduct are coming. With new numbering, new language and additional rules that we have not seen before, there will be growing pains. However, think of these new rules as a new opportunity to re-familiarize yourself with the Rules of Professional Conduct and your ethical obligations as a California attorney.
3/28/2025· Police Practices & Procedures
Understanding And Preventing False Confessions
By: Beth Mohr, CFE, CAMS, CCCI
Although false confessions were once believed to be extremely rare they may prove to be alarmingly common when DNA testing exonerates suspects who’ve previously confessed. Law enforcement can inadvertently generate false confessions but so can fraud examiners and occupational theft investigators.
