Handling Expert Witnesses in NC Impaired Driving Cases (Virtual)

February 18, 2022

approved for 6.0 CLE hours (inc. 1.0 ethics hour)

Topics & Speakers

***Note: At the end of each lecture, if you wish, please submit one question to the Program Chair.  During the Group Discussion, 7 or 8 questions will be chosen among those submitted to dissect and discuss.  Thank you.***

8:55 a.m. | Welcoming Remarks from Program Chair 

• Chas Post, Post | Foushee | Patton – Trial Lawyers, Sanford

9 a.m. | The History of Rule 702 and Tendering Your Expert (Daubert)

• Ron Shook, The Law Offices of Ronald J. Shook, Gastonia

10:15 a.m. | Cross-Examination of the State’s Expert 

• Justin Hunter, Hunter & Price, P.A., Kenansville

11:15 a.m.| BREAK

11:30 a.m. | Expert Testimony for Standardized Field Sobriety Testing and Other Pre-Arrest Issues

• Doug Scott, Principal Consultant, Drugs and Alcohol Risk Management, Cape Carteret

12:30 a.m. | LUNCH 

1:30 p.m. | Attacking the EC/IR II “Instrument” 

• Dr. Andrew Ewens, Ewens Toxicology Consulting, LLC, Cary

2:45 p.m. | Group Discussion and Questions from the Crowd 

Moderated by 

• Anna Smith Felts, Law Office of Anna Smith Felts, PLLC, Raleigh
• Kelly Dawkins, The Dawkins Law Firm, Southern Pines

3:15 p.m. | BREAK

3:30 p.m. | Marketing Yourself the Right Way: The Critical Connection Between Ethics and Modern Marketing for Lawyers and Experts

• Jake Minick, Minick Law, P.C., Asheville

4:30 p.m. | Adjourn

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