Lawyer Monthly - January 2022 Edition

speech systems; • A strong background in neurology and neuropathology; • Taught at a university for at least five years with experience answering uninhibited and challenging questions; • Ongoing and recent experience providing direct therapy to clients or patients; • Experience with depositions, court hearings, and court trials; • Some professional training by attorneys on being a proficient (actually, excellent) expert witness. What specific education, training, or experience have you had that would make you particularly valuable as an expert witness for either the plaintiff or defence? As mentioned above, I have been a speech-language pathologist for over 50 years and was a university professor for 35 years teaching primarily courses in neurological disorders, with the accompanied experience of answering uninhibited and challenging questions from students. I have remained a practicing therapist for all my career. I have worked on over 40 cases as an expert witness and have been deposed several times and have testified in court a few times, once being on the witness stand for two and a half hours. I provide a meticulous review of medical records and documents and opine on the queries of the attorney. Because I have been involved in numerous cases, I have sought training for expert witnesses and have taken seminars or trainings in How Experts Can Persuade with Clarity, Seven Approaches and Tips for Experts, Strengthening EXPERT WITNESS 83 JAN 2022 | WWW.LAWYER-MONTHLY.COM Your Skills in Court Testifying as an Expert Witness, Writing IME Reports, Medical-Legal Report Writing and Testimony Workshop, and I attended the 13th Annual National Expert Witness Conference presented by SEAK, Inc. I continue to receive and read articles by Expert Institute, such as Top 15 Tips for Testifying as an Expert Witness, Expert Witness Trial Tactics: How Storytelling and Metaphors Win Cases, Rule 26, Federal Rules of Civil Procedures: A Disclosure Guide for Expert Witnesses, How to Qualify an Expert Witness and Cross Examining Expert Witnesses, among others. In most cases in which a neurological disorder or impairment occurs in either a child or adult, a speech pathologist can provide valuable testimony. Paul Fogle, PhD, Professor Emeritus 7817 Del Webb Blvd., Elk Grove, CA 95757 Tel: +1 (916) 509-9254 (home); +1 (209) 298-7970 (mobile) E: paulfoglephd@gmail.com www.paulfoglephd.com About Paul Fogle “I have worked on medical-legal cases as an expert witness since 1985 and have been on over 40 cases, retained by either plaintiff or defense attorneys throughout the U.S., with nearly an equal balance between the two. I emphasise to attorneys who contact me that I am not a “hired gun.” I have probably worked as an expert witness on more cases and a greater variety of cases (including TBIs, strokes, swallowing disorders, cerebral palsy, cleft palate, voice disorders, wrongful death, and one murder case) than most any other SLP.”