Put Simply, Make Your Experts Teach (Law and the Appraiser) (Viewpoint Essay) (Reprint‪)‬

Judge Gunn appointed Angus to defend a criminal case, and a number of us went down to watch the trial, including some of the students from my trial tactics class. It was an insanity defense--those are hard cases to win--but by the time Angus finished with the direct examination of his expert witness, all the spectators we talked to were ready to acquit the defendant right then. Later, when we talked to Angus in the Brief Bag, one of my students, Danielle Washington, said she was particularly impressed: "I've never seen a psychiatrist be so down-to-earth or make so much sense."