Federal Rule of Evidence 702(d) Changes Clamp Down on Mismatched Expert Conclusions

On December 1, 2023, amendments to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 (”Rule 702”) regarding expert admissibility went into effect. The Advisory Committee on the Rules of Evidence (the “Advisory Committee”) has made clear the changes to the Rule 702 are not intended to alter the law. Indeed, “[n]othing in the amendment imposes any new, specific procedures.”1 Rather, the amendments are intended to reassert the correct standard for expert admissibility in light of frequent and consistent misapplications.