It’s common, especially if you’ve been addicted to TV shows like Law and Order, to think of expert witness testimony as a single witness. If you wind up in court over a structural flaw, you would likely bring in a structural engineer as your in-court expert.
But, that could be a very limited approach when, in reality, construction is a multi-disciplinary and complicated undertaking, according to Building Design + Construction. In the courtroom, a line-up of specialist witnesses is a far more formidable approach. It makes sense to apply a project management perspective to establishing an expert witness panel.
In the end, this can reduce costs and increase efficiency. Key steps to include aligning experts whose knowledge provides a multi-disciplinary view of the issue at hand, identifying stakeholders, gathering reports and tests from each expert, developing testimony, and running all communication through a single point of contact.