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May 15, 2006
Experts as Industry
Via Blog 702, this Fort Worth Star-Telegram story is worth reading. Its focus on defense-side witnesses is a bit striking (as Peter notes). In practice, my general sense was that our experts (I was a defense lawyer) were rarely making as much as the other side's, but that may be true (if at all) in the mass tort context, where there's no monopoly on the defense side in having the resources to do big-budget focus groups and the like.
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Some firms specializing in providing expert testimony in litigation have become so large that they have publicly traded stocks, notes the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in its survey of the field. "The expert-services industry was estimated by one insider to... [Read More]
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