Not all doctors charge the same hourly rate. Will you know enough about your expert's specialized field to be able to negotiate her fee? For billing insights, review Round Table Group's details about the top-five most requested physician-specialist categories: surgeons, cardiologists, oncologists, psychiatrists, and infectious disease experts.

In an edition of the The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, Steve Schott, Director of Business Development at Round Table Group, provides a thorough explanation detailing how expert witness referral firms conduct "customized expert witness searches" for their clients. These searches go beyond a mere proprietary database search and are specifically tailored to the facts of each case. Further, such searches tend to yield experts who are "true experts," leaders in their respective fields whose distinction goes far beyond just being an expert witness.

Round Table Group's The Expert Advisor, a popular publication for lawyers by lawyers, has issued a "best of" compilation of several helpful articles. These articles are helpful for any attorney using expert witnesses. The first piece is a rare article on the median belling rates of expert witnesses in various fields. The second discusses how poorly selected experts can sometimes hurt more than help. The third is a piece on managing working relationships with retained expert witnesses.

This is a short study, albeit slightly dated, examining the average fees that expert witnesses charge across a variety of fields. Could help in negotiating with an expert on billing rates.

The attorneys and research analysts of Round Table Group, the premier expert witness search and referral firm, have launched a new blog entitled Engaging Experts. This blog will focus on information and commentary of use to any practicing attorney who works with expert witnesses. Topics will include expert witness news, expert procedure and vetting tips, and Daubert updates.