May 6th – Views By Two

Views By Two Series

EXPERT WITNESS TESTIMONY:

EXPERIENCES FROM TWO SIDES OF THE COURTROOM

featuring

Jennifer Keller & Dr. Elizabeth Loftus

Please join us for the third event in our Views By Two series which pairs a Center researcher with a prestigious practitioner to discuss hot topics in the field of psychology and law. By providing both a researcher and practitioner viewpoint, we hope to start a dialogue that will bridge the gap between scientific research and policy.

This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Attendees can earn 1 MCLE credit for this event.

Please RSVP for the event here by May 3rd.

Date:

Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
 EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR MAY 6TH

Time:

5:30-7:00pm

Location:

University of California, Irvine Campus

Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway building, room 1517 (#214 on campus map)

For an interactive map of the parking structure and venue, click here.

*Parking is available in the Social Sciences Parking Structure – please note that this lot is not attended after 5pm. Instead, please use the electronic permit kiosk that is available on the ground floor. If you prefer, an attendant is available at the Student Center Parking Lot.

Abstract:

Dr. Elizabeth Loftus will discuss her experiences as a memory researcher who has served as an expert witness in hundreds of cases. She will share the lessons she has learned along the way and will offer advice to researchers who may be called to serve as expert witnesses. Jennifer Keller will discuss her experiences as a one of California’s premier trial lawyers, working on high profile cases such as Mattel v. MGA (“aka Barbie v. Bratz”). She will review the challenges and benefits of expert testimony and share strategies for using an expert witness successfully in court.

Speaker Biographies:

Jennifer L. Keller, J.D.JLK_Color – Business Trial Lawyer and Partner, Keller Rackauckas LLP

Formerly a top criminal defense lawyer, Jennifer L. Keller made a transition during the past 15 years to business litigation. She has won all of her civil trials, including the widely-followed 2011 retrial of Mattel v. MGA, aka “Barbie v. Bratz.” Keller came on board as lead counsel two weeks before the four-month retrial began in the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana and won a $309M judgment for MGA. The Los Angeles Times called it “a stunning reversal of litigation fortune.” In an unrelated 2009 case Keller won a $350 million jury verdict. In between those two civil trials she gained an acquittal for a client facing a life sentence in a so-called “shaken baby case.” Jennifer won a California Lawyer Magazine CLAY Award (California Attorneys of the Year) for litigation in 2012. She is listed in “The Best Lawyers In America;” Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Lawyers in America;” has been chosen repeatedly for the L.A. & San Francisco Daily Journals’ “Top 100 Lawyers in California;” and is routinely selected by Los Angeles Magazine’s Super Lawyers as one of the Top 50 lawyers in Orange County and Top 50 Women Lawyers in Southern California. The Orange County Trial Lawyers named her as both its Business Litigation Attorney of the Year (2010) and Criminal Defense Attorney of the Year (2000). She is a former President of the Orange County Bar Association. Currently she is co-counsel with John Keker and Elliot Peters in the defense of Standard & Poors, in United States v. The McGraw-Hill Companies; has just filed the state court reprise of the trade-secret portion of MGA v. Mattel, for which she will again be lead counsel; and is preparing to retry (also as lead counsel) a billion-dollar real estate dispute tried the first time by Bingham McCutcheon. Jennifer is a Trustee of Chapman University and the UC Hastings Foundation, and serves on the Regional Board of the Anti-Defamation League of Orange County and Long Beach. A founding fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, she is a past winner of the State Bar President’s Wiley Manuel Award for Pro Bono Service. Jennifer also served as an attorney representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Council. Jennifer graduated from UC Berkeley and UC Hastings. Her nine-attorney firm Keller Rackauckas LLP is among the premier white-collar and complex litigation boutiques in Southern California.

 

Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D. – Distinguished Professor of Social Ecology, and Professor of Law, Cognitive Science, Psychology & Social Behavior, and Criminology, Law, & Societyloftus_100510_hr5456x3637_hxp

Elizabeth Loftus is Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine.   She holds positions in the Departments of Psychology & Social Behavior, and Criminology, Law & Society. And she is Professor of Law. She also has a faculty appointment in the Department of Cognitive Sciences and is a Fellow of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, and was the Founding Director of the Center for Psychology and Law.

Loftus’s research has focused on human memory, eyewitness testimony and also on courtroom procedure. She has served as an expert witness in hundreds of cases, including the McMartin PreSchool Molestation case, the Hillside Strangler, the Abscam cases, the trial of Oliver North, the trial of the officers accused in the Rodney King beating, the Menendez brothers, the Bosnian War trials in the Hague, the Oklahoma Bombing case, and litigation involving Michael Jackson, Martha Stewart, Scooter Libby, and the Duke University Lacrosse players. Her work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation.  She was elected president of the American Psychological Society (APS), the Western Psychological Association (twice), the American Psychology-Law Society, and the Experimental Psychology division of the American Psychological Association (APA). She has published 23 books and over 500 scientific articles. Her 4th book, Eyewitness Testimony, won a National Media Award (Distinguished Contribution) from the American Psychological Foundation.

Loftus has received six honorary doctorates for her research, from universities in the United States, but also The Netherlands, Great Britain, Israel and Norway.   Her other honors and awards are numerous. In 1995 she received an award from the American Academy of Forensic Psychology – their Distinguished Contributions to Forensic Psychology Award. In l996 she received the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology (AAAPP) Award for Distinguished Contribution to Basic and Applied Scientific Psychology. In 1997 she received from APS the James McKeen Cattell Fellow (“for a career of significant intellectual contributions to the science of psychology in the area of applied psychological research”). She received the William James Fellow Award from the APS, 2001 (for “ingeniously and rigorously designed research studies…that yielded clear objective evidence on difficult and controversial questions.”). On the Review of General Psychology’s list of the top 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century, Loftus was ranked #58, and was the top ranked woman on the list.