Conflicts and Confidentiality: The Ethical and Procedural Issues Concerning Experts

Hricik, David

doi:10.2139/ssrn.917164

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Conflicts and Confidentiality: The Ethical and Procedural Issues Concerning Experts

David C. Hricik

Mercer University - Walter F. George School of Law

2007

Abstract:
Addresses the ethical issues that accompany expert witnesses, including conflicts of interest, ex parte contacts, and related ethical issues. In addition, it discusses the ethical issues that arise from the use of undercover investigators to engage in ex parte contacts. Includes a discussion of what has become called pretexting (or pre-texting) in the context of the Hewlett Packard scandal.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 62

Keywords: Legal ethics, pretexting, expert witnesses, undercover investigators, conflicts of interest, ex parte contacts

JEL Classification: K00, K40

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Date posted: July 19, 2006 ; Last revised: February 5, 2009

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Hricik, David C., Conflicts and Confidentiality: The Ethical and Procedural Issues Concerning Experts (2007). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=917164 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.917164

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