When the Expert Needs an Expert: How to Handle a Tough Finance Law Case

As a practicing attorney, you’re probably used to being the resident expert in the room on a number of topics relating to law and society. However, there are times when even the expert needs an expert of their own to help navigate a particularly tough case, and cases involving banking or financial litigation definitely fall under that category. No matter what state you practice in, finance law can be a convoluted mess, and if you don’t have someone to bring in on the stand to help constructive your narrative for the jury, your case could be sunk.

An Expert Witness Can Make or Break Your Case

The world of banking and finance is like an iceberg: what the public and the newspapers see is really only a fraction of what happens behind the scenes. For your case to really paint a coherent picture, you’ll need to retain the expert witness services of someone with intimate knowledge if the inner workings of the financial industry. 

Aim for experience over flashy credentials. After all, it’s one thing to have scored a high-priced MBA from a good school years ago; it’s something else entirely to have actually sat in on the backdoor meetings and know the dealings of the industry from the inside out.

A Good Expert Knows How to Simplify

Here’s an exercise for you: the next time you work a finance case, try to count the number of times a juror starts to nod off during the proceedings. Finance law is incredibly complex, and as you know, jurors can’t digest something too complicated. A good expert witness will be able to take massive chunks of information and condense them down to something simple, elegant, and compelling for the jury to hang onto, exactly what you’ll need to construct a powerful narrative to sway them to your side.