Practice areas

The core practices

Each library covers the expert classes, methodology canon and Daubert-vulnerable patterns that define a practice area. The rulings behind them are in the expert class library and the guides.

Antitrust

Cartel, overcharge and monopolization

Antitrust cases run through the economists. Cartel and common-impact econometricians, overcharge and pass-through, monopolization and market-definition, merger effects, and industrial organization, grounded in a real cost pass-through on public FRED series.

  • Defense Cartel Econometrician
  • Plaintiff Common-Impact Economist
  • Overcharge & Pass-Through Economist
  • Monopolization & Market-Definition Economist
  • +2 more
Securities Litigation

Section 10(b), Halliburton II and Delaware Chancery

Ten experts covering roughly 85% of expert witness types retained in Section 10(b) and Delaware Chancery cases. Defense and plaintiff event-study econometricians, class-certification and price-impact economists, forensic accountants, valuation and fairness-opinion economists, governance and executive-compensation experts.

  • Defense Event-Study Econometrician
  • Valuation & Fairness-Opinion Economist
  • Plaintiff Event-Study Econometrician
  • Class-Certification & Price-Impact Economist
  • Forensic Accounting & Financial-Reporting
  • +5 more
Mass Tort

MDL, toxic tort and coordination

One methodology across hundreds of plaintiffs: causation toxicologists, hygienists and epidemiologists for asbestos, talc, PFAS and Roundup.

  • Causation Toxicologist (every-exposure)
  • Industrial Hygienist (Asbestos / Silica)
  • Epidemiologist (PFAS / Roundup / Talc)
  • Pharmacology / Pharmacovigilance
Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice

Biomechanical, medical and life-care

Biomechanics first, then damages economists, life-care planners, radiologists and accident reconstructionists, with the standard-of-care physicians and nurses of malpractice cases.

  • Biomechanical Engineer (low-speed MVA)
  • Accident Reconstructionist
  • Lifetime-Earnings Economist
  • Hedonic-Damages Economist
  • Life-Care Planner
  • MRI / Spine Radiologist
  • Neuropsychologist (mTBI)
  • OB Nursing / Birth Injury
  • Trucking Safety / FMCSR
Commercial Litigation

Contract, partnership and arbitration disputes

Damages quantum, custom-and-practice and forensic accounting, plus fact-witness rehearsal from partnership disputes to arbitration.

  • Contract Damages Quantum
  • Industry Custom & Practice
  • Forensic Accounting (Commercial)
  • Real Estate / Construction Valuation
  • Spoliation / Evidentiary
  • Arbitration Procedure
More practice areas

Across the docket

Intellectual Property & Patent

Markman, damages and technical experts

Reasonable-royalty damages, claim construction and Markman hearings.

  • Patent Damages Economist
  • Technical Expert (Markman)
  • Reasonable Royalty
Environmental & Toxic Tort

Causation, exposure and Daubert

Causation toxicologists, hygienists and exposure scientists, and the every-exposure cross.

  • Causation Toxicologist
  • Industrial Hygienist
  • Exposure Scientist
Employment & Labor

Whistleblower, discrimination and wage-hour

Whistleblower retaliation, Title VII and wage-hour class actions.

  • HR / Workplace Practices
  • Vocational / Lost Earnings
  • Statistical Disparity
Insurance Bad Faith & Coverage

Duty to defend, coverage and reasonable expectations

Coverage, claims-handling and bad-faith damages experts.

  • Coverage Attorney
  • Claims-Handling Specialist
  • Bad-Faith Damages
Medical Malpractice

Standard of care, causation and damages

Standard of care, causation and life-care. Cheap to build, but the buyers are thousands of small firms, so it comes last.

  • Standard-of-Care Specialist
  • Causation Expert
  • Damages Life-Care Planner
The library

Expert testimony is concentrated

A small number of expert classes account for most of what is said on a stand in US civil litigation, and the tail beyond them is long and thin. That is what makes a library a finite thing to build, and it is why the order of the build matters more than its size.

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The first 5050% covered

About half of all civil expert testimony, because the head of the distribution is very heavy.

15080% covered

Four fifths. The body of medical, engineering and financial testimony is covered.

50090% covered

Ninety percent and the practical ceiling. Past this, each addition buys less than a tenth of a percent.

See the classes one by one, with how their testimony is attacked and the rulings behind it, in the expert class library.

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