BV501-WEB - How I Survived a Daubert Challenge & Lived to Testify at Trial
Category: Business Valuation
Continuing Education: 2
Registration
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Webinar Course Description
This webinar session will cover various factors necessary
to avoid disqualification under FRE 702. We will present and analyze the
concepts of relevancy, reliable methodologies and their application to the facts
of the case, which an emphasis on gathering sufficient facts and data, especially when historical financial date is unavailable.
Recommended Pre-Reading
Daubert, General Electric and Kumho Tire Supreme Court Decisions
Federal Rule of Evidence 702
Course Audience
Financial and valuation analysts who do, or plan to do, a fair amount of testifying at deposition or trial on valuation and commercial damages topics
NASBA and Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Credit
The American Society of Appraisers is registered with the National
Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing
professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of
accountancy have the final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for
CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the
National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website www.learningmarket.org.
CPE Credit: (2) Hours in Specialized Knowledge
Program Level:
Advanced
Delivery Method: Group-internet based courses are approved for
CPE
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None
Policies: ASA's
Refund and Cancellation Policy and ASA's Complaint Resolution Policy
Instructor Information
Mark G. Filler,
AM | Filler & Associates, PA
Mark G. Filler, CPA/ABV, CBA, AM, CVA leads Filler & Assoaciates'
Valuation, Litigation and Claims Support practice in Portland, Maine. During the
past twenty-five years Mr. Filler has worked on 1,200 business valuation and
litigation support cases involving business interruption claims, commercial
damages, personal injury and wrongful death matters. He has testified over 140
times, of which 50% have been at depositions and 50% have been at references,
arbitrations or trials at both the State and Federal level. He has authored or
co-authored 30 journal articles pertaining to the application of statistics to
business valuation and commercial damages, and has co-authored a book on the
Application of Statistics to Commercial Damages published by Wiley in 2012.
No prerequisites for this course.
Agenda
There is no available agenda for this course.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course,students will be able to:
- Convince the Daubert Court that they did enough work
to satisfy the sufficient facts and data requirement;
- Differentiate between Daubert hearing testimony and trial testimony,
- Distinguish between facts and data and the importance of the former when
the latter are unavailable; and
- Establish the length of the damages period when it appears to be
infinite.