This master class will equip potential experts and in-house lawyers with essential skills for preparing for hearings, handling cross-examination, and managing lawyer and expert questioning.

Key topics to be covered during the master class:

• The role and duties of experts
• Rules of expert engagement
• Preparing and producing expert reports
• Hearing as an essential part of the arbitration process
• Preparation for hearings
• Direct, cross, and re-direct examination
• Preparation of lawyers for cross-examination of experts
• Preparation of experts for cross-examination
• Cross-examination: tasks of the interrogating lawyer and the expert, different styles of interrogation
• Successful and unsuccessful presentations by experts
• The role of the arbitral tribunal

Pavel Boulatov

Counsel at White & Case Kazakhstan LLP

Mr. Pavel Boulatov, Counsel at White & Case Kazakhstan LLP. Mr. Boulatov is Counsel in the Astana office of White & Case LLP, specialising in international arbitration, litigation, and cross-border insolvency proceedings. He has experience in international commercial and investor-state arbitrations involving CIS countries and is listed as an Arbitrator at the IAC (AIFC), HKIAC, the Arbitration Court of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, and the Arbitration Center at the Institute of Modern Arbitration.