The Need for Expert Witness Services

Whether you’re defending yourself because you don’t have the funds to hire a defense team or you’re in charge of a legal team representing either a defendant or a plaintiff on a tight budget, you’re likely to think carefully about each expense. When it comes to expenditures like hiring expert witness services, you might wonder if it’s worth it. If you want to win or settle a case quickly, you can’t afford not to hire one.

An Array of Services

Expert witness services range from testimony to litigation support. If you are dealing with a complex case, you will want to hire an expert witness. More specific areas, such as finance and banking in cases can be hard to explain to a jury without the help of an expert witness who has had plenty of experience in the field and is capable of explaining specific areas for everyone to understand.

Before Trial

An expert witness is invaluable even before a case goes to trial — sometimes singlehandedly preventing cases from making it to trial by resulting in settlement or a plea bargain in your client’s favor. Hire an expert witness to build a better case to get the other side to want to avoid the embarrassment of a trial.

Contact the office of Michael F. Richards to learn more about how expert witness services can help you win your case — sometimes even before going to trial. An expert witness is more than a witness; he’s a consultant and a case analyst as well. Make room in your budget for an expert witness and visit MRichardsConsulting.com today.

Do Plaintiffs or Defendants Benefit From Expert Witness Testimony?

There’s a lot that goes into every case, and you’ve got to figure that the other side is probably working just as hard to win. When you’ve crossed all of yours T’s and dotted all of your I’s in what’s likely to be a really hard-fought case, what else can you do to give your side the advantage? Whether you represent the plaintiff or the defendant, hiring an expert witness is a must, particularly in a financial law case.

How a Plaintiff Benefits

When a financial expert witness is called on behalf of a plaintiff — typically a bank or lender in the case of financial litigation — he can look over the lending documents and look for any indicators that the defendant has breached. When the breach isn’t so crystal clear, he can reference past cases where the judge cited in the financial institution’s favor. He can also examine the case before providing testimony to offer a third-party angle to the proceedings.

How a Defendant Benefits

A defendant needs an unbiased expert to look over the lending documents to see if anything protects him from having to pay fees and fines. An expert witness might even be able to cite cases in which the defendant is owed money for a breach that wasn’t immediately obvious to the parties involved.

Both Benefit

A financial expert witness can aid the case of either the prosecution or the defense. In the case of financial law, a defendant is less likely to have the legal clout to stand up against financial institutions that may have their own team of lawyers, but a plaintiff might also be missing the unbiased opinion of an expert third party.

Michael F. Richards has applied his decades of financial and law expertise to help the cases of both defendants and plaintiffs. Relying on an expert witness isn’t necessarily inherently better for the defense or the prosecution; it can equally benefit both, and the side that thinks to hire an expert for his testimony has a leg up over its opposition.