{"id":152,"date":"2014-07-22T12:19:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T17:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewriteconsultants.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2014-07-22T12:19:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T17:19:07","slug":"the-game-of-chess-involving-expert-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewriteconsultants.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"The Game of Chess Involving Expert Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a bit of experience under my belt now, I am amazed at the game of chess that is played in litigation between plaintiff and defense attorneys. On occasion I feel like a pawn being used to force a hand one way or another. Admittedly, this is part of the &#8220;game&#8221; of litigation. However, it makes it that much more perplexing when you are the expert in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>I recently came upon this article (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/evidence-expert-witness-testimony-di-31922\/?utm_source=LU_Emails\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/evidence-expert-witness-testimony-di-31922\/?utm_source=LU_Emails<\/a>) about a medical case involving an expert. This is a prime example of the game of chess or tug-of-war played between opposing sides. I had a nice little chuckle while reading. If you&#8217;ve ever been in the position of pawn, hopefully you will also.<\/p>\n<p><em>Information provided by Adele Thonn, Forensic Document Examiner (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewriteconsultants.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.thewriteconsultants.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a bit of experience under my belt now, I am amazed at the game of chess that is played in litigation between plaintiff and defense attorneys. On occasion I feel like a pawn being used to force a hand one way or another. Admittedly, this is part of the &#8220;game&#8221; of litigation. However, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewriteconsultants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewriteconsultants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewriteconsultants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewriteconsultants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewriteconsultants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thewriteconsultants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"http:\/\/thewriteconsultants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewriteconsultants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewriteconsultants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewriteconsultants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}