Expert Witness Testimony in Boston, MA

Testimony in a Boston matter is given where the case is pending. KWVRS experts give vocational, life care and economic testimony in the Suffolk County Superior Court, which the court system's location page places at the Suffolk County Courthouse on Pemberton Square and for which it links a civil daily list and a remote hearings guide, in the matters for which KWVRS is retained; in the Boston Municipal Court Department, whose page describes criminal and civil matters for the City of Boston and the Town of Winthrop, where a civil matter before it carries an earnings or care question; and in the District of Massachusetts at the Moakley Courthouse, the Boston divisional office the court's page labels Eastern. The Appeals Court and the Supreme Judicial Court, at the John Adams Courthouse on Pemberton Square by their pages, hear the appeals.

Before the Department of Industrial Accidents, with its main office at Lafayette City Center in Boston by its page, the step at which a KWVRS expert gives testimony is the hearing. The department's steps page calls the conciliation and the conference informal and the hearing the trial phase, where Massachusetts rules of evidence apply, witnesses are called and a stenographer records testimony, and where the judge may require further evidence and oral testimony from both sides before deciding; the Reviewing Board hears appeals of hearing decisions.

A deposition on a KWVRS report is noticed by the parties after the report is served and covers its method, sources and opinions in the order examining counsel chooses; at trial they are given on direct and defended on cross, and a rebuttal of an opposing expert is delivered in writing or from the stand as counsel and the court require. Counsel and the court set the dates, so the report comes first and testimony is fitted to the case calendar. Where a Boston forum allows a remote appearance and counsel arrange it, the expert appears by video with the record and exhibits unchanged; the Suffolk County Superior Court's and the Suffolk Probate and Family Court's location pages each link a remote hearings guide.

The witness is always the author: the vocational opinion is defended by the vocational expert, the plan by the planner who built it and the present value figures by the economist who ran them, and the practice page names each. Plaintiff and defense counsel engage KWVRS for testimony on identical terms; each figure is traced to a named source and the opposing expert can reproduce the opinion. KWVRS works with attorneys nationwide from its New Jersey, Virginia and Rhode Island offices. Attorneys confirm the governing rule for their case.