Services
Our core business is providing highly qualified expert witnesses and consultants for the legal process. We also offer a number of other services to the legal and expert communities with the goal of being a comprehensive, full-service provider to our subscribers and to those with only occasional needs for our services.
Search for an Expert
The core of our business is using our 30 years of experience working with expert witnesses to help you find the most qualified expert for your case. We specialize in using our network of experts and our unparalleled research skills to locate the hard-to-find expert, exhausting our resources for you so you can save your resources for other aspects of your case. There is no cost for our search services unless you engage the expert we locate for you. Try our Expert Search today.
Expert Profiles
Our expert listings are designed to provide the most detailed information available on the Internet to help you make an informed selection. In addition to the standard listing details, we also offer our experts an opportunity to include audio and video clips and more extensive information about their experience as an expert witness to help you better assess their suitability for your case.
Expert Education
Since the Daubert decision in 1993, the landscape of law relating to the qualification and use of experts has been constantly evolving and changing. Even the most experienced expert witness now must stay on top of new decisions and procedural rules affecting his or her ability to effectively consult and testify on cases. Bench & Bar Experts monitors these changes and provides this information to experts and attorneys through newsletters, alerts, our Resource Library, and educational seminars and webcasts. Click here for a list of topics available.
Speakers Bureau
Many of our experts are also available for speaking engagements at legal and industry events. Contact us for your specific needs.
Expert Services
In addition to using expert witnesses in litigation, the use of experts in the court system has expanded into a number of other areas. Bench & Bar Experts can help you find the best qualified expert or consultant for every situation.
Specialized Experts
Judges
Retired and former judges are being used in a number of scenarios to draw upon their experience from their years on the bench. From moot court exercises for a trial run to evaluate a case's strengths and weaknesses before the actual trial takes place, to retaining a private judge for a proceeding, to review of briefs and other court documents before filing, Bench & Bar Experts can provide the best former judge for your situation.
Attorneys
Many jurisdictions now require that an expert witness be designated to prove and defend legal malpractice claims. Let us help you find a qualified legal professional to help you prove or defend your case.
Arbitrators/Mediators (ADR)
As alternative dispute resolution becomes more prominent in the legal process, it becomes more crucial to find an arbitrator or mediator with the best experience with the issues at hand. In addition, we can also find an expert to help supplement the arbiter's knowledge of the facts and issues in a proceeding.
Medical Experts
Historically, physicians and other medical professionals have been used to prove standards of care in medical malpractice and other health-related cases. Most states now statutorily require the designation of a medical expert in medical malpractice cases. Let us use our resources to find the best medical expert for your case.
Continuing Legal Education
Our professionals have been designing and providing CLE programs to the legal community for almost 20 years. We have trained summer associates, federal law clerks, paralegals, law librarians, attorneys and state and federal judges. Our programs have been approved for credit by several state bar associations and a number of professional organizations.
We can provide CLE programs at your firm or you can join us for the programs we conduct across the country. In addition, we will soon be adding online courses for CLE credit. Click here for a list of seminar topics we have developed.
Research & Writing Services
Our principals have some of the best hands-on experience in the industry in providing legal research and writing services. Having worked for legal research vendors including Westlaw, Lexis, Matthew Bender, Shepards and BNA, we have received years of intensive training by those who develop and edit these research products. We know how to find the most current answers to your legal issues quickly and efficiently. With the plethora of legal resources available today, it is critical to know that your research is being conducted accurately. Let us put our expertise to work for you.
Electronic Discovery Services
Our principals have worked with some of the nation’s leading electronic discovery vendors. We understand the sensitivity of these projects and the need to deliver complete results quickly and in a cost-effective manner.
Placement and Recruiting
We have worked in-house as legal recruiters to fill positions from senior partners to administrative staff. In addtion, we have worked with some of the largest legal recruiting firms to help with lateral hires to fulfill a specific need within a firm or even develop a new practice area.
Training
As professional trainers for some of the major vendors to the legal profession, we have had the opportunity to work with a variety of audiences on topics ranging from substantive legal issues to law practice management to legal research. We can tailor one of our presentations for your firm or develop a new course that specifically suits your needs.
Marketing, Client Development and Public Relations
As a former Director of Client Development for a Top 500 law firm, our President has expertise in developing individual, practice group and firmwide marketing plans; planning firm retreats and events; responding to RFP's; setting up speaker's bureaus; and a variety of other tasks to help market your legal practice. Allow our consultants to help you make your practice more profitable.
Event Planning
Our event planning experience for law firms has included new associate and summer associate orientation programs, holiday parties, law firm anniversary celebrations, firm retreats, CLE presentations and a variety of other events.
Translation Services
Our experience in international litigation has brought us in contact with situations where translation services have been critical to the resolution of the matter. Let us assist you in finding a well-qualified translator who knows the language and understands the substantive area at issue.
Newsletter
Our newsletter THE EXPERT is published monthly and covers major developments in case law, statutes and regulations, ethics opinions and other issues related to the use of expert witnesses in litigation. For a free sample issue, or to subscribe, click here.
Expert Law Digest
We monitor a number of services for the most current developments in case law, statutes, evidence rules and other authority related to expert witnesses. Our Expert Law Digest provides an efficient means of staying on top of these important developments.