AR202 Litigation Services for Appraisers
Includes Multiple Live Events. The next is on 01/06/2026 at 10:00 AM (EST)
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- Non-Member - $1,995
- Member - $1,375
Class Date/Time
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - Friday, January 23, 2026
10:00am - 2:00pm ET
Class Schedule
All Times are Eastern US
- SESSION 1 - Tuesday, JANUARY 6 | 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
- SESSION 2 - Thursday, JANUARY 8 | 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
- SESSION 3 - Tuesday, JANUARY 13 | 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
- SESSION 4 - Thursday, JANUARY 15 | 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
- SESSION 5 - Tuesday, JANUARY 20 | 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
- SESSION 6 - Thursday, JANUARY 22 | 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
- EXAM - Friday, JANUARY 23 | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Registrants are able to add sessions to their personal calendars via the Class Activities tab after registering.
Registration Includes
- One registrant log-in to the live sessions
- Downloadable course materials and any additional handouts pertaining to class (supplemental materials, administrative/exam guidance, classwork, etc.)
Special Pricing
ASA-accredited members (AM, ASA, FASA) who would like to attend this class receive a 50% discount. Pricing is automatically reflected at checkout.
Attendance
This is a highly interactive class. Registrants must participate in the entire class (all class sessions) with cameras turned on in order to sit for the exam and receive a certificate following successful completion of the exam. Partial credit is not awarded. The class will not be recorded or provided as an archive per accrediting body guidelines.
Final Exam
All exams will be conducted through ASA’s online exam platform on JANUARY 23. Successful completion of the exam is required in order to pass the class. Students must complete the online exam within 21 days after the class concludes. Additional exam instructions and guidance will be provided to registrants.
Continuing Education (CE)
Class provides 28.8 ASA CE Instructional Hours and 3 Exam Hours.
Course Description
Do you have the relevant and specialized knowledge to help attorneys and courts of law understand complex appraisal issues? Can you keep your cool under fire and provide competent and useful information in complex situations?
Leverage your appraisal expertise and professional training to secure well-paying, in-demand, and rewarding expert witness assignments. AR202 was developed through a unique collaboration between leading legal professionals and experienced valuation experts who fully understand the complexities of litigation in valuation cases. With the growing demand for appraisal litigation services, now is the perfect time to expand your role and capitalize on new opportunities
Learn from Judges, Attorneys, and Seasoned Expert Witnesses
This course gives you the opportunity to understand the demands of being an expert witness, gain hands-on testimony skills, and gives you access to resource materials you can use immediately and depend upon throughout your expert witness career. This interactive, engaging, and specialized online class focuses on the specific challenges and concerns of the appraiser providing litigation services. Course presenters are judges and attorneys, as well as experienced and successful appraisal expert witnesses who often have more courtroom and deposition experience than many attorneys!
Develop Your Own Effective Expert Witness Style
Working with course instructors and your peers, you’ll begin to develop your own effective style for working in the complex, demanding, and qualitative world of an expert witness. Benefit from the numerous in-class mock testimony exercises with real-time feedback in presenting, explaining, and defending your appraisal methodology without the pressure of judge, jury, or opposing council.
In addition, this course addresses the practical details of how to start, build, market, and run a successful expert witness appraisal practice. Learn more about how the court system functions, the mechanics of each stage of litigation cases, and how the expert's role changes at each stage. Take the professional training and experience you already have and leverage it into more profitable business opportunities.
Featured appraiser-focused discussions, trainings, and live practices included within this course:
- Hands-on mock testimony practice and real-time feedback based on student-provided appraisal reports (redacted)
- Anatomy of a lawsuit, including how the court system works and the expert’s role in it
- Key marketing strategies for developing a successful expert witness practice
- Retention issues in an expert witness assignment
- Traits of a good expert
- Proper disclosures of past expert witness appearances
- Ethical requirements for expert witnesses
- Communications with retaining counsel and litigants
- Proper handling of the expert’s work-file relative to discovery
- The variety of expert appearance possibilities: depositions, trial, arbitration, mediation, settlement conferences, insurance disputes, tax appeals, and more!
Instructional Methods
Instruction combines lectures, discussions & dialogue, group activity, and real-world insights. Students engage in mock testimony exercises with real-time feedback to strengthen their communication and defense of appraisal methods. Class will be taught live over the course of two days a week, over three weeks, with an online exam - see the Class Schedule. Following registration, students are provided a Welcome Letter from the instructor, that provides further detail on class methodology and expectations.
Course Audience
This course is valuable to professionals who are interested in becoming an expert witness and also for the seasoned expert witness who wants to polish testimony skills in an energetic and exciting environment. This course is open to anyone and does not include any prerequisite courses.
*AR202 is the second POV course in a 4-course series (201-204) for those seeking the AM or ASA designation in ARM. Only AR201 and AR204 must be taken in sequence. Accredited ASAs who are earning their discipline-specific ARM designation by taking 201 and 204 are welcome to take 202 or 203 at any time.
Learning Level
Fundamental
Continuing Education and Contact Hours
28.8 ASA CE Instructional Hours and 3 Exam Hours
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course participants will have:
- Explained the different phases of a lawsuit and the role of litigation support professionals in the court system
- Analyzed the qualifications requirements to be a litigation support professional relative to their experience and develop a plan to expand their experience
- Developed a marketing strategy for their litigation support professional business
- Analyzed administrative aspects of litigation support
- Compared and contrasted the various ethics standard and how they relate to the court
- Analyzed different types of correspondence with other parties and how that communication will be treated in the discovery process.
- Analyzed the rules of evidence and how valuation services apply to a litigation assignment.
- Examined how the USPAP Record Keeping Rule relates to the discovery process.
- Contrasted the USPAP Competency Rule with Daubert and Fry Standards and how the difference will inform an appraiser’s work product.
- Demonstrated knowledge and skill in providing expert testimony by participating in practice sessions.
- Determined which of the different roles of a litigation support professional they wish to pursue.
Terri Lastovka
Terri Lastovka, CPA, JD, ASA, ARM is an accredited business appraiser in Cleveland, Ohio. She provides valuation and litigation advisory services for numerous purposes, including marital dissolutions, shareholder disputes, estate and gift taxation, financing, purchase and sale advisement, and other tax, corporate, and litigation matters. Terri has been a member of the ARM Discipline Committee since 2018 and currently serves as ARM’s Chair.
J. Mark Penny
J. Mark Penny, FASA, IA, ARM-BV is an accredited appraiser who lives and works outside of Philadelphia, PA. He has served in numerous capacities in ASA at the Chapter level, with the Business Valuation Committee, and on the ASA’s Board. ASA was privileged to have him as the International President in 2013-2014 and he currently serves as the Immediate Past Chair of the ARM Committee and as Treasurer of the ASA Education Foundation.
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