Judge Shines Needed Light On Expert Qualifications

By J.B. Heaton (March 25, 2019, 12:42 PM EDT) -- As Law360 reported, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote recently took the rare step of finding proffered experts unqualified to render opinion testimony on certain financial matters in litigation with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The opinion from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in SEC v. Lek Securities Corp. is an important assertion of a court's gatekeeping role at a stage often given little serious consideration: whether this person is even qualified to give an opinion on the matter at hand....

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