I like both of these Daubert research web sites.
Both of these sites give you an efficient way of zeroing in our your
jurisdiction and its rules regarding the admissibility of expert testimony. Your particular needs and tastes may
tell you that one is better than the other for you. You can see my
preference in the comments.
The Daubert Tracker. MDEX
Online has a service ("The Daubert Tracker ") that tracks all Daubert style
cases and allows you to research particular jurisdictions and even particular
experts. It would be the preferred way to research a particular expert.
One feature of great advantage is the quick way it provides to look at the
docket sheet of relevant cases and order documents you can use in your own case.
To my way of thinking, The Daubert Tracker is geared to persons using medical
experts, as it should be, for a company that is grounded on medical-legal
experts. It also is geared to the person in a teaching environment,
which reflects the fact that it enlists several professors on its team.
DaubertOnTheWeb is another online service that tracks Daubert style
cases. Click here for its version of
telling a lawyer what he/she needs to know. It is the "fast and easy"
site to navigate. It does not have the depth and resources of The Daubert
Tracker in getting details of the cases. I do expert testimony work in 15
states. It is my the preferred way to
learn Daubert law and apply it to my case. If you
are a busy trial lawyer, use it. It has
links to lots of other relevant source materials.
We
do contribute to it.
Because of the fact that the large percentage of appellate Daubert cases
focus on scientific evidence, it is inevitable that the web sites such as the
above provide more help to those involved with scientific evidence then with
non-scientific evidence. That is not to say that it is a fault of these
sites. It is to say that if you have non-scientific evidence, your
thinking as lawyer or an expert needs to be devoted, in part, to making value
judgments be phrased in terms of coming from an inductive or deductive
reasoning, and not on mere intuitive general leaps.