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Expert Witnesses: Observing the Limits of Expertise

Life-altering opinions are also being offered by file reviewers (work product reviewers), some of whom seem to be oblivious to, or unconcerned about, the inherent limitations of a file reviewer's data.

12 minute read March 01, 2017 at 01:17 AM
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David A. Martindale
Expert Witnesses: Observing the Limits of Expertise

In 2013, Timothy M. Tippins, a member of this newsletter's Board of Editors, opined, in a New York Law Journal column, that there was an “urgent need for the legal system to impose mandatory and enforceable standards of performance upon those mental health professionals who offer potentially life-altering opinions in the custody court” (The Bar Won't Raise Itself: The Case for Evaluation Standards, July 8, 2013).

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