Program: Expert Witness Bootcamp Program
Sponsor: Financial Forensics Institute
Focus: The Expert Witness Bootcamp is a three-day intensive workshop designed for financial professionals who want to develop and enhance their skills as expert witnesses or as consulting experts in litigation. Each participant in the bootcamp will participate as a testifying or consulting expert in a trial involving financial testimony. Participants will learn the art of delivering effective testimony and how to withstand grueling cross examination. Our consulting expert participants will learn how to dissect and critique the reports and opinions of the testifying experts and how to prepare counsel for the expert segments of trial. Each participant will be coached and guided by members of our faculty of seasoned experts and trial attorneys. The bootcamp culminates in a courtroom setting during which each testifying expert presents and defends his or her own expert opinions on the witness stand. Participants who successfully complete the bootcamp will have met the experience requirement for the Financial Litigation specialty of the Certified Forensic Financial Analyst (CFFA) program.
Details:
What You Will Learn
• The art of effective testimony
• How to avoid common mistakes of inexperienced experts
• How to respond to the opinions of opposing experts
• How to survive Daubert and other motions in limine
• How to avoid unnecessary landmines in expert reports
• Presentation of effective direct testimony
• Surviving grueling cross examination
Development and Instruction Team
The Expert Witness Bootcamp is taught by the Financial Forensic Institute’s faculty members who are most experienced in litigation. Our faculty includes both trial attorneys and seasoned financial experts. The combined experience of the bootcamp faculty spans more than 300 trials.
Who Should Attend
Financial professionals who wish to hone their expert witnessing skills, consulting experts, CFFA candidates, and valuation experts.
NASBA Sponsorship
NACVA and the IBA are registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA), as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN 37219-2417. Web site: http://www.nasba.org.
