An out-of-state federal district court in an opinion strongly criticized lawyers who allegedly ghostwrote a report for an expert. The ruling prompted Texas lawyers, including Ifti Ahmed, counsel in the Houston office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, to restate best strategies to avoid making the same mistake but still get the most effective help from experts.
In a case that terminated on Jan. 12, U.S. District Judge David M. Lawson of the Eastern District of Michigan issued an opinion that stated about a defense expert: “He did not draft his own report; defense counsel drafted it for him. The court finds that practice to be a remarkable breach of ethics and protocol, which defense counsel brazenly attempted to justify at oral argument.”
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