When you work with an
expert witness for your financial law case before the case goes to trial or
before you start negotiating a settlement, you gain an expert’s insight into the
best strategies to weigh the case in your client’s favor. You’ll even get a
better idea of what to expect from the opposition and how to minimize any items
potentially damaging to your client. It may seem strange, then, to limit the
information you provide your witness, but it’s recommended solely to expedite
the case.
Start With the Basics
The point of limiting
information you hand over to your expert witness
services is simply to keep the focus where it should be — on helping your
client win the case. Wading through too much information takes up time. Give
your witness an overview of the most important facts to start and follow his
lead when it comes to handing over more information as he requests.
Pull Repetitive Information
Don’t leave it to your
witness to sort through repeated information; it’s a waste of the time you’re
paying him to work. Put aside anything that simply reinforces previously
established information. If your witness wants access to more documentation,
he’ll let you know.
Provide Everything Potentially Unfavorable
Withholding some
information from your expert witness is about expediency, not about “hiding”
facts from your witness. He’s your witness — hired to make the case for your
side. When you hire him before going to trial, he needn’t even present his
findings to the opposing side. Provide all potentially unfavorable information
and he can actually help you strategize how to combat it.
Arrange an appointment
with the office of Michael F. Richards as early as possible into your case. If
facts change as you progress through the matter, you can arrange another
appointment later on so we can adjust our recommendations appropriately.
However, you needn’t provide every new bout of information unless you think our
expertise will come in handy in light of the new facts.
