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Sidebar - The First Expert Call | Building an Ethical, Efficient Medical-Legal Collaboration
Episode 3: The First Expert Call - Building an Ethical, Efficient Medical-Legal Collaboration.
Most expert engagements that go wrong were set up wrong on the first call. In this episode I walk through how attorneys and medical experts should run that first conversation: defining the role before discussing the merits, matching the assignment to the expert's actual qualifications, raising conflicts and compensation up front, presenting the case without announcing the answer, being honest about missing records, and putting the agreement in writing. Plus a real example of an expert who…
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