Many lawyers are concerned about how to deal with an expert witness. Interestingly enough, the same rules and concepts that apply to questions for lay witnesses, also apply to an expert witness. If ...

What can we expect July 24 when Robert Mueller, the former special counsel, testifies in back-to-back hearings before the House Judiciary and House Intelligence Committees? We can expect the testimony ...

From a legal point of view, there are two kinds of questions. OK, maybe four, but the latter two are really riffs on the basic two. Questions on direct examination are a species of their own and ...

Whether you are the witness in your own trial or called to testify on behalf of another, it is vital to the case that your testimony comes across as credible. Without credible witnesses, the case ...

Evidence columnist Michael J. Hutter explores New York's rules governing the questioning, including impeachment, of adverse parties and hostile witnesses on a party's direct case. A common occurrence ...