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A Financial Expert's View on e-Discovery and Financial Expert Challenges

By Michael LoGiudice

[Editor's note: In this edition, we offer you the first of a two-part article on the challenge of financial experts as witnesses in cases in which e-discovery is relevant. This month, our expert author from PricewaterhouseCoopers provides an overview of how a financial expert can help counsel in e-discovery and litigation strategy. The second part of the article, to appear in the March edition of e-Discovery Law & Strategy, will examine instances of financial experts being challenged and excluded from cases ' and how to avoid exclusion.]

The well-known Daubert case was decided in 1993. Kumho Tire was decided in 1999. Challenges to financial experts under the rules outlined by Daubert and Kumho Tire are increasing.

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