Clear Skies Ahead: Jan Null

“In all these things, you are the expert. You know what you know, and if everyone else knew it, you wouldn’t be up there. That was something I learned early on, and you need to have that self-confidence, so that you can explain things in a meaningful manner. Also, understanding the sorts of things that a jury wants to see and what they can understand is important. I can come up with formulas and all sorts of other things, but if I show a weather radar like they’ve seen on the nightly news every night, that really resonates with them. You don’t want to dumb it down, but you need to keep it simple. And I really advise other people that want to go into this realm of meteorology that you don’t want to overcomplicate it. You don’t want to write a report that’s an academic paper because it will get lost along the way. Shorter is better.”

—Jan Null, forensic meteorologist and Certified Consulting Meteorologist at Golden Gate Weather Services in Half Moon Bay, California, on his approach to the challenges of depositions and trials. For more, listen to the Clear Skies Ahead podcast at https://blubrry.com/clear_skies_ahead/, with new episodes released every month.

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