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Re: Destruction of notes and data
Posted by:
PMK140 (IP Logged)
Date: February 17, 2007 09:16PM
If you are named by a client as a testifying expert in a case, your entire file is always asked for by the deposing atty. Sometimes thay ask for it well before your deposition. Sometimes they wait to see it until the day of your depostion. But almost without exception, if there is a deposition, the presentation of the file is required (some states, New York and Pennsylvania, do not regularly take expert depos.).
Invariably, one of the first questions ask is, "Has anything been removed from the file?"
Pat Kennedy, CFEI, CFPS, MIFireE
Fire and Explosion Analyst
Sarasota, Florida
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