The Mecklenburg County Public Defender’s Office is hosting a free to attend CLE on The Care, Feeding, and Discovery of Expert Witnesses. This CLE is approved by the NC State Bar for 1 hour of other CLE credit. If you need CLE credit, you must either sign in when you arrive or complete the post-CLE survey or email anthony.f.monaghan@nccourts.org your name, NC State Bar # and how long you attended by Wednesday October 15th . Everyone who registers, will receive an email on October 9th with instructions to join. Please register here.
When: October 10 12:30-1:30. You may log on or enter the conference room by 12:15.
Where: Anyplace you have internet or the Mecklenburg County Public Defender’s Office 4th floor conference room (720 E 4th St; take elevator to 4th floor and conference room on your left)
What: This presentation will review the existing statutory law concerning expert witnesses in criminal cases and apply the principles of civil discovery to experts. It will discuss the preparation and presentation of expert witnesses, their reports, and their identification.
Who: Jim Cooney practices civil and criminal law in both trial and appellate courts. He has handled some of the most complex, challenging and high profile cases in North Carolina and is recognized as one of the premier civil, “white collar” criminal, and healthcare litigators. He has represented numerous companies and individuals in complex and significant business disputes, governmental investigations, grand jury matters, internal investigations and “bet-your-company” cases for more than 30 years. He has tried more than 60 civil and criminal cases to verdict and argued nearly 50 appeals in the appellate courts of North Carolina and in the federal courts of appeal, including the Second and Fourth Circuits.
Jim is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and a Permanent Member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference. He is consistently ranked by Chambers USA in Band 1 in North Carolina for Litigation: General Commercial and Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations, where he was recently praised by sources as an “excellent lawyer.” He is also included in The Best Lawyers in America in the fields of “Bet-the-Company” Litigation, Commercial Litigation, and Criminal Defense White Collar Litigation. In 2004 he received the NC Bar Association’s William Thorp Pro Bono Award and in 2010, the Wade Smith Professionalism Award for Criminal Defense.
Please email Anthony.F.Monaghan@nccourts.org with any questions.