Program Details
2026-11-10 12:00:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2026-11-10 12:00:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm ESTThis session provides a deep dive into the law of expert witnesses, including the recent amendments to Rule 702, which informs taking an effective expert deposition. This session will discuss areas of focus for effective expert depositions, and tips and techniques for setting up an expert deposition for eventual cross-examination
Christopher G. Campbell
Joshua Gardner
Marie Bussey-Garza
Sneh Patel 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm ESTExpert testimony can shape the outcome of a case, making strategic decisions regarding admissibility critically important. This session will address key considerations in evaluating whether to seek exclusion or limitation of an expert’s testimony and will provide practical tips, advocacy strategies, and best practices for preparing and arguing successful motions.
Christopher G. CampbellJoshua GardnerMarie Bussey-GarzaSneh Patel 1:10 pm - 2:10 pm ESTThis session will explore effective strategies and practical techniques for conducting impactful expert witness cross-examinations, including preparation, impeachment methods, and approaches for challenging an expert’s opinions, methodology, and conclusions, while maintaining credibility with the court and jury.
Christopher G. CampbellJoshua GardnerMarie Bussey-GarzaSneh PatelChristopher G. Campbell is the co-author of Expert Witnesses: Products Liability Cases (Thomson Reuters 2d ed. 2012), an in-depth guide to expert witness development across pharmaceutical, toxic tort, automotive, industrial, and consumer product matters, and he regularly speaks and writes on expert witnesses, trial tactics, the attorney-client privilege, and pharmacovigilance. A Partner at DLA Piper and Chair of the firm’s Product Liability and Mass Torts group, he brings 25 years of experience in all phases of mass tort, class action, and product liability complex commercial litigation, including trying cases and arguing appeals for global companies across industries.
Joshua Gardner is a first-chair trial and appellate lawyer at DLA Piper who teaches trial advocacy, evidence, depositions, and civil litigation courses and devotes significant time to training lawyers in witness preparation and examination strategy. Over more than two decades in private practice and at the U.S. Department of Justice, he has litigated some of the nation’s most consequential constitutional, administrative, commercial, and regulatory disputes, led trial teams through more than a dozen bench and jury trials, examined and cross-examined a broad array of fact and expert witnesses, and managed litigation involving billions of dollars in claimed damages.
Marie Bussey-Garza is a litigator at DLA Piper with a nationwide practice in class actions, high-stakes government-facing litigation, and appellate advocacy, whose trial work includes a total defense victory and a multimillion-dollar fee award for a publisher falsely accused of deceptive sales practices by the Federal Trade Commission and the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General. Her practice includes defending complex actions alleging deceptive business practices, consumer protection violations, defamation, and related constitutional claims, as well as pursuing affirmative statutory and constitutional challenges to state legislative action, and she has represented clients in practice-changing appellate disputes with implications for a broad range of industries.
Sneh Patel is a Senior Attorney at DLA Piper in Miami whose trial work includes a complete defense verdict of no negligence after a four-day jury trial in Palm Beach County, Florida, where the plaintiff asked the jury to award more than 6.5 million dollars in damages. She focuses her practice on litigation, with an emphasis on product liability, mass torts, and class actions, and she has presented continuing education programs to insurance adjusters on topics including evidentiary standards, bad faith litigation, and coverage disputes.
Christopher G. Campbell is the co-author of Expert Witnesses: Products Liability Cases (Thomson Reuters 2d ed. 2012), an in-depth guide to expert witness development across pharmaceutical, toxic tort, automotive, industrial, and consumer product matters, and he regularly speaks and writes on expert witnesses, trial tactics, the attorney-client privilege, and pharmacovigilance. A Partner at DLA Piper and Chair of the firm’s Product Liability and Mass Torts group, he brings 25 years of experience in all phases of mass tort, class action, and product liability complex commercial litigation, including trying cases and arguing appeals for global companies across industries.
Joshua Gardner is a first-chair trial and appellate lawyer at DLA Piper who teaches trial advocacy, evidence, depositions, and civil litigation courses and devotes significant time to training lawyers in witness preparation and examination strategy. Over more than two decades in private practice and at the U.S. Department of Justice, he has litigated some of the nation’s most consequential constitutional, administrative, commercial, and regulatory disputes, led trial teams through more than a dozen bench and jury trials, examined and cross-examined a broad array of fact and expert witnesses, and managed litigation involving billions of dollars in claimed damages.
Marie Bussey-Garza is a litigator at DLA Piper with a nationwide practice in class actions, high-stakes government-facing litigation, and appellate advocacy, whose trial work includes a total defense victory and a multimillion-dollar fee award for a publisher falsely accused of deceptive sales practices by the Federal Trade Commission and the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General. Her practice includes defending complex actions alleging deceptive business practices, consumer protection violations, defamation, and related constitutional claims, as well as pursuing affirmative statutory and constitutional challenges to state legislative action, and she has represented clients in practice-changing appellate disputes with implications for a broad range of industries.
Sneh Patel is a Senior Attorney at DLA Piper in Miami whose trial work includes a complete defense verdict of no negligence after a four-day jury trial in Palm Beach County, Florida, where the plaintiff asked the jury to award more than 6.5 million dollars in damages. She focuses her practice on litigation, with an emphasis on product liability, mass torts, and class actions, and she has presented continuing education programs to insurance adjusters on topics including evidentiary standards, bad faith litigation, and coverage disputes.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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