Daffner v. Jackson

In 2003, Laurene Duhart Jackson (“Jackson”), an attorney in Decatur, Georgia, retained Kirk R. Daffner (“Daffner”), a neurologist who lives in Newton, Massachusetts and practices at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, to be an expert witness in a case Jackson was preparing for trial in Savannah, Georgia. As part of his engagement, Daffner had to be deposed in Massachusetts and testify at the trial in Georgia.

After a dispute arose concerning whether Jackson had paid all of Daffner’s fees for his services, Daffner brought this suit in the Newton Division of the District Court Department on…