Sad experts do not always respect their credentials, as many recent news confirms. Knowing the background of an expert, whether yours or your opponent, may be critical to you.
Perhaps the most dramatic recent federal judge in New Orleans condemned the jury's decision at A Merck & Co. Medical Giant after a cardiologist who testified in Vioxx was found to have misrepresented credentials. A few weeks before in California, a man who has abandoned himself with cybercrime In two cases, he pleaded guilty to federal fake testimony. In Toronto, the psychiatrist served as an expert witness in two remedies as a witness when he was in the psychiatrist.
These cases illustrate why it is important for negotiating lawyers to confirm that an expert is claiming everything. Examination of a peer mandate should be a key step in probation preparation.
The most important legal research services provide many tools for verifying the expert background, from administrative records to custodian banks. But these larger services may be costly and they are still free to leave bases.
However, the web has many potential and tools that contain potentially valuable information, but many lawyers ignore the background of the expert.
Yes, we all know we're checking Google, but this article looks at less well-known research tools – 19459003 – and the most free research tools that can be circumvented. Of course, these web tools are neither foolish nor exhaustive. This website can not replace the use of reputable expert search.
BLOGS: THE RULE OF LETTERS SHOW
The old message: "What You Say, Haunt" was never more true. Thanks to submitting to blogs and participating in online discussion groups, we keep track of our words and thoughts – whether you like it or not.
In light of this, the blogosphere must be in your first position Experiment background research. Does the expert maintain the blog? If so, he said something, he can regret it. Comments on other blogs. Others have posted it positively or negatively on my blogs?
The best blogging tool is Google Blog Search. Like Google's search for the web, it's comprehensive and up-to-date. You can sort your results by date or relevance and find blogs in multiple languages.
Looking for blogs for nearly a second Clusty. Clusty is not a search engine – it does not crawl or index the web. Rather, a meta search tool that invokes other blog search engines will extract relevant information and then organize the results into a hierarchical folder structure – called "clusters". With this unique approach, you get results that are comprehensive and useful.
The source of a variety of newsgroups and discussion forums on the Internet is the source of a potentially harmful comment by another expert. If someone is looking for such an ad, you can search for Google Groups. It also has several current groups and more than 750 million Usenet postings for 1985.
Podcasts are becoming more and more popular in the background. Perhaps the person you are looking for has something relevant to a podcast or someone else's podcast commentary. Many sites require search for podcasts, but most of them only search for text – title, description, author, and metadata – but not the audio file.
Some devices now allow you to search Full text of podcasts. One of the best Podzinger. It is based on speech recognition technology developed by US intelligence services that monitors foreign television and radio broadcasts. Using this technology, you create the text index of the audio data in any MP3 or WAV file, convert spoken words into searchable text.
NETWORK BUSINESSES
Where Professionals Once you combine in cocktail parties and civil events, you are now more likely to find them on any of the many network sites. Currently, LinkedIn is the most widely used site where members provide information about their careers and relationships and share mutual recommendations. If your expert is on LinkedIn, read your profile carefully. How does your data compare to that service? Find others and explore your network of connections in cases that can help you look into or challenge the background.
Other business network sites include Ziggs, Ryze and Orkut. Of course, be sure to check your personal network sites like MySpace and Facebook.
Researchers in the publicly traded company could know that they are controlling US securities and the EDGAR database of the Exchange Commission. But they are less aware of the fact that information about EDGAR is sought for individuals, though this may contain a lot of information. Corporate announcements can inform you about business relationships, employment agreements, investments, etc. Sometimes the individual's training and employment history can sometimes be traced through EDGAR.
If the expert is working in the securities industry, NASD BrokerCheck provides two audited databases that provide information on the background of current and prior NASD records. Securities and brokerage firms and the National Futures Association background support status Information center (BASIC), which is the same as the registered futures resellers.
HISTORICAL WEB
Changing over time. If the expert has a website, it can be said today that it is different from what he said five years ago. The WayBoard of the Internet Archive is the best way to track the historical changes of a real website. Here's an archive that captures historical snapshots of sites. Although not complete, it probably appears at least a few pages from previous versions of the site.
The public library has many available research systems for records. These include LexisNexis, Westlaw, ChoicePoint and Accurint. But many public records are now available online, at little or no cost. Many websites will help you with these online resources of public records.
One of the best search systems is the public record of nearly 40,000 sources on the Internet. This includes links to sources around the world, though most sources are located in the United States and Canada. Not all listed sites are free, but the site clearly identifies those that are not. Lists include: professional license registrations, company records, marriage announcements, UCC documents, documents, birth and death ads, lobbyists, medical disciplinary procedures and more.
And the information includes:
- Virtual Gumshoe at virtualgumshoe.com: A good collection of web resources for researching public records.
- Public Records Online Directory at: http://publicrecords.netronline.com [http://publicrecords.netronline.com:]: Links to State and Municipal Sites, Particularly in Property, Taxation and Critical Inventory
- Merlin Information Resources at merlindata.com/industrylinks.html: Links to Resources for Finding Public Registries and Public Information
- Black Book Online at blackbookonline.info: A free public website for private detectives skip flags, government investigators, and others. Good collection of links and descriptions.
- BRB publications in brbpub.com include a rather comprehensive, publicly available list of free public records, national sites, and the Canadian and US territories.
SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS
Due to data protection issues, it is difficult to find social security numbers online today. But you can easily check whether a number is valid and belongs to a live person. Enter a number in the SSN Validator and tell you whether the number was issued, which state it was issued when it was issued, and whether there were any deaths versus the number. Do not tell the owner of the number owner.
PROFESSIONAL APPROVALS
DocFinder is provided by the States for examining a medical license. For states not in the DocFinder database, the site contains links to your licensing search pages.
Most states have a place to certify a lawyer's bar. These can be found on the public finance website. A new site, Avvo, establishes lawyers on the basis of publicly available information and compiles client opinions and disciplinary sanctions.
DOCKETS
To turn to federal court, check the US Party / Case Index. It is a national index of parties and cases to the United States District, Bankruptcy and Appeals Courts. Updating every night. To use this, you need a PACER account. Not all federal courts are involved, but the site contains a list of those that do not.
Justia Federal District District Court records and docks must have the same information that does not require an invoice. This free, searchable resource contains information on recent US court cases in the United States. The database contains cases filed since 1 January 2006 and can be searched for the name of the party, court and case type.
Another cheap alternative to seeking federal court negotiation at Who Suing Whom. The private translation and interpretation service provider offers a tool for searching patents, trademarks or copyright cases in federal courts. Find the type of case and the name, court, status, or date of the party to find the basic case information. Uploading Full-File Court Files Fees Fee
VITAL RECORDS
Vital Records – Birth, Death and Marriage Certificates and Divorce Orders – Through State and Local Government Resources. Vital Records Information at vitalrec.com tells you where to find them anywhere in the United States. It lists the sources of each state, area and county, as well as most cities, as well as contact information, fees and ordering information. For documents outside of the United States, the site contains links to the pages of foreign critical records. This simple site is designed with genealogy nudity, but one lawyer finds it useful.
PERSONAL SECURITY RULES
Daubert Tracker is a Web To help lawyers track down issues related to the acceptability of expert testimonies and, in particular, They went to court. The central element is the database of Daubert and offspring, probes and appeals that are made accessible by full texts, transcripts, and file entries. A unique part of the site that connects the issues with the experts. Even if the expert is not in the court decision, the site's editors will track the identity of the expert.
One year subscription is $ 295, or 25 hours or half an hour. For expert testimonies, you can search for more than 10,000 presentations and other supporting documents from your site collection for appeals and court courts. If you find the document you want, you can view the first 10 percent of the document. If you choose to purchase the entire document, the cost for non-subscribers is $ 15 and subscribers $ 7.50.
WRITINGS
It is important to make sure that the listed works are copied and search for non-listed works that are relevant or embarrassing. Two important elements of the published works are the Online Catalog of the Library of Congress and the Copyright Office of the United States of America. Of course, it's worth looking at Amazon.com too.
The most popular source of scientific publications is the Social Science Research Network. This is the home of international co-operation for more than 400 subject areas. It contains over 150,000 working documents and over 100,000 published articles. This makes SSRN an indispensable resource for studying expert publications.
Another useful source is ISI HighlyCited.com. This website provides profiles and bibliographic information to the most cited researchers in 21 broad topics. For the listed individuals, the site provides biographical information – including education, faculties and professional posts, memberships and offices, current research interests and personal web pages – and a complete list of publications including journal articles, books And conference activities.
OTHER RESULTS
The United States Government maintains a number of databases that may be relevant to investigating an expert depending on their field of expertise. It is often worth checking the list of excluded flight lists. Provides information on individuals and companies that are not members of federal and federal financial support.
Checking someone's background is more than right. The more resources you use, the more complete your search. The free and low-cost resources described here are a useful addition to the more expensive research services.