Appellate Practice
Feb. 21, 2020
‘Man on Wire’: Navigating the pitfalls of expert testimony
Lawyering is hardly as dramatic, but the movie ‘Man on Wire’ offers an analogy to the tightrope a lawyer must walk when presenting expert testimony — albeit with vastly disproportionate stakes.
Did you ever see the documentary "Man on Wire"? It follows the remarkable journey of Philippe Petit, a famously brave (mad?) tightrope walker who, in 1974, rigged a high-wire between the newly constructed twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center and walked back and forth, 1,350 feet in the air, for 45 minutes -- without a harness or a net! It's breathtakingly suspenseful, and captures a remarkable feat for which Petit was later arrested by spellbound policeme...
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