Preparing a Professional CV in Support of Your Business Efforts as an Expert Witness
Productive promotional requires a strong CV, which must contain a number of key elements:
* Your name and contact information.
* Your educational background. In chronological order, list universities or colleges attended, the degrees earned, and any other unique scholastic accomplishments. include any awards earned, and in all cases, list the dates.
* Your work background. List your jobs in reverse chronological order with your recent work background listed initial. If any gaps exist in the chronology, you should be prepared to explain why you were not working during that time period. By and large, your work history defines the roles you have played in industry or government. It should suggest growing qualifications, responsibility, and breadth of experience.
Other things may not be as obvious, but remain valuable:
* List any professional certifications, licenses, or other credentials that you hold. Even though I do not sell real estate, I did study the subject and passed the examination to obtain a credential as a real estate broker. This helped me land a law case that involved computers in a real estate litigation. Including my black belt certification in jujitsu on my CV helped me land a case because the attorneys felt confident that I could calmly resist aggressive attorneys on the other side during cross examination.
* include membership in any professional organization in your field, such as the American Medical Association. List the organization name, any special responsibilities you have in the organization, and the date on which you first joined.
* contain other professional activities such as articles or books you have written, patents you might own, or workshops and classes you have developed or taught.
* You may have skills in unrelated fields. Those skills may or may not be licensed or certified and could include special awards, community service, or government service. Do not list what you did in high school, but do not dismiss the potential value of activities you have learned as an adult.
The structure of your CV, especially its length, is important. An expert witness must be both precise and concise. Condense your expertise into one or two pages at most. You can always provide extra aspects during testimony. Some attorneys do prefer more detailed CVs, especially with medical professionals. They believe that the more data that appears on a CV, the more expert their witness appears.
potential clients can always ask you for more information, and you can give more on the telephone or on the witness stand. If you want to offer other services, create a brochure that contains this additional information.
Some CVs focus on the chronology of expertise or certifications. Others are organized to emphasize the logical nature of your background, with sections for industry qualifications, academic expertise, research, and development. I use both approaches. Some attorneys look for chronology and others look for skill sets. Merging both approaches offers something of value to the general mix of attorneys. They may only spend five or ten seconds looking at your CV in print to decide whether to call you. Let them quickly see the key sections of interest.
My actual CV includes a second page because I have written 30 books and starred in over 25 training videos and DVDs. Books and video presentations demonstrate your ability to speak confidently in public. If you have been published, you should include a list of publications as part of a second page in your CV. contain them as well on a page of your website.
You can provide on your website a representative sample of the types of cases in which you have participated. Your sample could show the number of cases in which you have been retained, whether the plaintiffs/prosecution or the defense retained you, a brief description of each case, and the classifications involved, such as computer forensics or copyright infringement. Alternatively, you can provide such a detailed list only on request.
My list of cases on my website also indicates the year of the case and the location by country or state, which helps to attract new cases that want qualifications in their local courts. I avoid including precise case identifiers, the law firms involved, or the parties to the case. That is just too much information, and may have confidentiality issues as well. initial, I do not want those attorneys bothered without my experience by requests for references. Second, if a potential new attorney is interested in one of my listed cases, he can ask me about it.
Preparing a Professional CV in Support of Your Business Efforts as an Expert Witness
By: Judd Robbins
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Preparing a Professional CV in Support of Your Business Efforts as an Expert Witness