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Wouldn’T You Like To Be An Expert, Too?, Michael S. Ariens
Wouldn’T You Like To Be An Expert, Too?, Michael S. Ariens
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It was once an open secret among lawyers that finding an expert to testify on your client’s behalf was one of the easiest aspects of litigating. Lawyers not in possession of private lists of experts easily located persons willing and able to sell their expertise in the back pages of the state bar journal, in advertisements in legal newspapers, and in direct mail appeals from companies whose business is selling expertise. One consequence was that the phrase “a battle of the experts” came about, and people began referring to both lawyers and experts as “hired guns.” Another consequence was a …