Professional Documents
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Initial Consultation
Qualifications
__ Accuracy of CV
__ Misleading information on CV
__ Knowledge
__ Skill
__ Training
__ Memberships in societies
__ Awards
__ Practical experience
__ Recentness of experience
__ Relevancy of experience
__ Credibility
__ Marketing activities
__ Prior testimony
__ Professional presentations
__ Professional and personal writings
Opinions
__ Notes on documents
__ Sources of information
__ Omitted facts
__ Hourly rate
Forensic Work
Bias
__ Impartiality
__ Inflexibility
__ Professional witness
__ Advocate
__ Dates of reports
__ Revisions
__ Information in report
__ Inaccuracy in reports
__ Prior drafts
Tests Performed
__ Results
__ Equipment used
__ Similarity of conditions
__ Similarity of conditions
__ Professional discipline
__ Loss of job
__ Criminal convictions
__ Suspension/revocation of licenses
Subpoenas
Learned Treatises
Prior Testimony
__ One-sidedness
Legal Standards
__ Standards of practice
__ Pertinent statutes, rules, regulations, and codes
Daubert Issues
__ Has your technique or theory been subject to peer review and publication?
__ The degree to which the technique or theory has been generally accepted by the
scientific community
Uncontrolled intersection
First vehicle in the intersection has the right-of-way
If both vehicles enter the intersection at or near the same time, vehicle on the right has
the right-of-way
No traffic control devises to govern drivers
Familiarity with intersection
Obstruction to visibility across “critical corner”
Speed
Approaching speed
Change of speed
Distance traveled during recognition of danger and reaction time
Distance required to skid to a stop
Distance required to slow or swerve
Lookout
Duty to keep
Duty to avoid collision
Recognition of limited visibility across “critical corner”
Sight distances at various distances from intersection
Photographs of sight distances
§3:63 Plaintiff re: Injuries
Causation
Released from emergency room
No overnight hospital stay
Lack of treatment by primary care physician
Relatively short period of treatment by orthopedic specialist
Refusal of surgery
Symptoms from prior injury existing at time of accident
Injury
Treatment
Prior claim
Education
Training
Employment history
Experience
Bias
Visibility
Reconstruction of accident
Observations
Opportunity to observe
Location of witness
Obstructions to line of sight
Length of time to observe
Eyesight—glasses
Lighting at scene
Weather
Distractions—kids in car; pedestrians
§3:66 Defendant’s Medical Expert
Qualifications