HVG Expert Appraiser: Can I Get a Witness?

Build a credible expert witness practice from your first engagement to the stand.

  • Arizona CE PENDING

    A 4-hour course covering the ten practical steps from marketing your expertise to attorneys through delivering defensible, impartial testimony. Based on decades of real litigation experience.

  • From marketing to testimony

    The full arc: how attorneys find experts, conflict checks, disclosure, discoverability, cross-examination preparation, and the advocacy line that appraiser must never cross.

  • Capstone Assignment

    The capstone is a scored self-assessment covering five areas of expert witness readiness. Score yourself honestly before your next engagement.

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome

      FREE PREVIEW

    1. Build Your Expert Witness Brand

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. Connect with the Legal Profession

    3. Navigate Conflict Issues

    4. Full Disclosure: The Objectivity Standard

    5. Part 1 Quiz: Getting the Work

    1. Professional Resilience: Don't Take It Personally

    2. Discoverability and Your Workfile

    3. Preparation, Standards, and Persuasive Reports

    4. Assumptions, Advocacy, and the Limits of Your Role

    5. Part 2 Quiz: Doing the Work

    1. Capstone Lesson

    1. Conclusion

About this course

  • $119.95
  • 13 lessons
  • Arizona CE Pending

About this course

This is a 4-hour continuing education course for real estate appraisers entering or improving their litigation consulting and expert witness practice.

You will learn how to market your expertise to the legal profession, set up a conflict-check procedure, and handle disclosure obligations at retention. The course also covers draft-report discoverability rules, cross-examination preparation, and the line between independent opinion and advocacy.

You finish with the Expert Witness Engagement Readiness Checklist and a 30/60/90-day action plan. The judgment calls are yours.

Prerequisite: active real estate appraiser license or certification and familiarity with USPAP.

## CE Status

**Arizona: CE Pending**

Instructor(s)

AQB USPAP Instructor Michael Brunson

I am Mike Brunson, co-founder of Horizon Valuation Group in Las Vegas. Our firm provides valuation, consulting, and real estate damages analysis services for litigation, along with lending appraisal services. I have served as an expert witness appraiser in both state and federal courts, and recently served as a defense expert in one of the FDIC's largest appraisal liability lawsuits.

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