LAW360 PUBLISHES ANALYSIS ON ADMISSIBILITY OF EXPERT TESTIMONY BY JEFF GROSS AND ROB LACROIX
In December 2023, an amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 702, which governs the admissibility of expert testimony, went into effect – the rule’s first substantive amendment in two decades. Legal newswire Law360 published an article by Reid Collins Partner Jeff Gross and associate Rob LaCroix analyzing the amendment and how it does not address a lurking problem: while courts still consider whether experts’ work has been peer-reviewed, the value of peer review itself is debatable following the “replication crisis” (when scientists are unable to reproduce the results of previous studies) in the scientific community.
Click here to read Jeff and Rob’s full analysis – “Expert Witness Standards Must Consider Peer Review Crisis.”
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