Re: i hate off-leash dogs.


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On 3 Sep 2007 13:12:02 -0400, shore@xxxxxxxxx (Melinda Shore) wrote:

In article <rcXCi.51334$U24.28705@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
tiny dancer <tinydancer357@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Let's say, just for example, this engineer my
husband hired has to testify in court in a product liability suit. It
is
expected that he/she be able to communicate in an intelligent fashion to
command the title of *expert witness*.

??? Your husband's company makes hiring decisions with an
eye towards who would make a good impression in court if the
company were sued?

Maybe, just maybe, if they made hiring decisions on the
basis of skills they wouldn't have to worry quite as much
about product liability problems.

*Expert witness*, with or without asterisks, isn't a title that's
commanded, anyway. Although it's helpful if witnesses, expert and
otherwise, can express their opinions intelligibly to a jury, what
matters for an expert witness is qualifications, meaning education and
job experience. (That's job experience, not life experience - - e.g.,
Matt is qualified to testify as an engineer, Paul is not.) But I've
never before heard of ability to testify as an expert witness as a job
qualification.


I certainly didn't say it was a job qualification. I said it is important
for any sort of technical employee to be able to speak in an intelligent
manner should they be required to do anything from communicating with
vendors, customers, or 'testify in court'. If one has product
responsibility for a particular device, any sort of incident might arise
where they are needed. Be that making changes in a device in order to meet
different requirements for selling said device in Canada or Europe,
travelling to a customer to trouble-shoot problems, or testifying in court
when necessary.

And how do you know Paul isn't qualified to testify in court? My husband
has testified in court and been qualified as an expert witness to give
testimony. He doesn't have an engineering degree. His degree is in math
and physics. But he has been employed as an engineer for nearly 40 years.
His qualifications have never been questioned. A few of his associates
didn't even have degrees. They worked their way up in the ranks, having
been hired on their qualifications 'back in the olden days'. Their
experience, qualifications, and familiarity with the product line have been
more then enough to qualify them as experts on their product line. Simply
because one has an engineering degree, in no way makes them better qualified
than someone who know's that device inside and out, has made critical
changes in the design of said device, knows the materials, stress tests,
etc., and worked on the line, hammering out problems for years.

td




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