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Welcome to the fourth edition of ‘X-Pro News’. This month we warmly welcome our attorney colleagues, many of whom will have an interest in Mr.Thomas Roney's excellent article, 'Economic Experts: If, When & How To Use Them', which is published below. Submissions from attorneys are always welcome too – tell us about your work & experiences with experts – can they raise their game? If so, how? And experts – why not give us the opposite perspective? How can your expertise help lawyers and their clients? We hope this newsletter can become a two-way street between experts & attorneys nationwide, but it depends on your input. To make a submission, reply to this email & attach your article in any format or provide the URL if it’s online. Anything published will include email / website links. We hope you enjoy this month’s features.

Events February 21st (Web Seminar): Green Building - The National Society of Professional Engineers; Where's The ROI & Market Advantage? by Gary J. Saulson. Feb/March'07 (TX,FL,IL,CA): ANA Conferences; Internationally Recruited Nurses. June 21st-22nd (Cape Cod, MA): SEAK's 16th Annual Expert Witness Conference. Articles

'Economic Experts: If, When & How To Use Them’ Economists are some of the busiest experts in litigation. Find out why in this informative article by economic consultant & expert witness Mr. Thomas Roney that will be of particular interest to attorneys.

In The News

01/17/07(CA): Arsenic Poisoning Difficult To Diagnose Court Told The Cynthia Sommer trial - a forensic pathologist has testified that despite a kidney analysis revealing an arsenic level over 1,000 times above normal the victim's lab results may have seemed normal.

01/13/07(CA): Video Compression Expert in High Profile Patent Case An expert on video compression testified yesterday in Qualcomm's federal court trial that rival Broadcom's chips and software infringe on two of the San Diego wireless company's patents. Latest in a flurry of litigation between these two parties.

01/13/07 (MS): Katrina Insurance Case Awash With Experts Norman and Genevieve Broussard lost their home when a natural disaster of one form or another struck, leaving them with just a concrete foundation slab. But what natural disaster?

01/12/07 (FL): Motorola Faces Heavy Fine. A Fort Lauderdale court has indicated that it was considering imposing a fine for attorney fees and trial costs after a ruling that Motorola had wilfully violated court orders during a $10bn trial late last year in an lawsuit filed by now defunct SPS Technologies.

01/04/07(CA): Goodwin Convicted. Motive clearly played a major part in the jury’s deliberations as Michael Goodwin was convicted of the 1988 killing of racing legend Mickey Thompson & his wife. Expert evidence relating to a questionable 13 year old identification was apparently disregarded.

01/02/07 (TX): State Insanity Laws Flawed? The Mental Health Association of Greater Houston is advocating a in change in the state's insanity defense statute. The trials of housewife Andrea Yates for the 2001 drowning of her five children should, say the MHA, convince everyone that change is needed.

12/29/06 (WV): Supreme Court of Appeals of WV Rules Expert Wrongly Excluded The Justices reversed the drunken driving conviction of Michael Doonan, finding that Magistrate Emily Bradley improperly excluded Doonan's expert witness.

12/27/06 (OH): Expert’s Opinion on Battered Woman Syndrome Allowed The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that prosecutors can present evidence of battered woman syndrome when the credibility of a domestic violence victim is challenged, saying that evidence establishing the cycles of battering in a relationship is an appropriate basis for such testimony.

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