Expert Witness Work and The 7 "P"s

 

LinkedIn is showing the most common job title for people viewing my profile as "solicitor", and I'm getting quite a few enquiries in for expert witness work, almost (but not quite) all water related. 

For once, none of the new enquiries are from people who have left it until the last minute to find an expert, who then ask for an unrealistic delivery programme for a report. I can accommodate a certain amount of this, but there have been times in the past where I have been surprised by bait and switch tactics by several such clients simultaneously. 

A bit of free advice: getting expert reports produced under unnecessary time pressure is not optimal. Talking to an expert early on might be wiser.

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