While this page is dedicated to our most frequent request, medical and healthcare related experts, the process is the same we use identifying Civil Engineers, Chemical and Chemical Process Engineers, Economists, or any other expert needed by our clients.
MarGin Consulting, LLC has a better approach. We search for an expert for your case from scratch. We conduct an independent search for each expert and each case, we have no subscribers, and we do not maintain an ongoing relationship with any experts. Our process is geared to discovery and vetting of matter matched experts with full transparency and discretion. And, since our experts are university professors in full-time clinical practice, or selected for their dual credentialing, our clients are assured of top-tier credentials from a true expert.
There are any number nurse consultants and self-proclaimed expert “referral services” who refer attorneys to experts in their database. It is MarGin’s contention that these databases are flawed for several reasons. Firstly; these databases are limited to experts with whom the referring nurse or service has an ongoing relationship. This reduces the likelihood that a recommended expert is actually chosen for her/his expertise in addressing your fact pattern. The “experts” sometimes pay a listing fee in exchange for the referral, while in other cases the referring agent bills a surcharge over the expert’s actual fee in order to monetize the process. All this while the referral service builds a list of experts ready to opine on any case. Additionally; these experts chosen from databases are often not vetted for their ability to withstand a challenge based upon your fact pattern. In some cases, owing to only minimal familiarity with statutory and appellate law, conflicts are not adequately investigated or identified.
To learn more about the benefits of the MarGin Consulting approach to litigation support, simply contact us for your free consultation.
MarGin Consulting v. Other Referral Services
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Legal Nurse Consultants |
MarGin Consulting, LLC Paralegal Nurse Consultancy |
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| POINT OF CONTACT | Non-nursing referral services offer no single point-of-contact. Contact personnel frequently have little to no medical background or knowledge. Nurse based services have the background but often have little or no training in litigation support. | MarGin will assign a Paralegal Nurse Consultant to work with you through the identification of expertise required for your specific fact pattern through the generation of appropriate search criteria until you have selected your expert. |
| CHALLENGE RISK MITIGATION | Referral services and nurse consultants are often unfamiliar with the qualifying process and its demands on counsel leading to successful substantive challenges and exlusion of your hard won expert. | MarGin Paralegal Nurse Consultants understand medical litigation and remain on board through the vetting process to assure your expert will qualify under your local rules. We not only know how to say Daubert, but Kumho, General Electric, Howerton, and McGrady but are able to help meet the demands of your jurisdiction. |
| VALUE-ADDED SERVICES | Limited ability to provide services beyond referring from pre-set list of experts. Even nursing based referral services, though offering nursing services, are unable to offer complete litigation support. | Complete start-to-finish litigation support available if needed; complimentary case strategy consultation with MarGin Consulting Paralegal Nurse Consultant to aide in effective use of your expert’s services. |
| CREDENTIALS | Certification and active-practice are not assured. | 100% Board-Certified, often by two or more credentialing authorities, full-time practicing specialists. |
| BACKGROUND | “Professional experts”. Substantial income derived from testimony. | University Professors and dual credentialed Experts with full-time clinical practice. Minimal income obtained as medical expert. |
| EXPERTS | Pre-existing lists or databases of “preferred” experts. | Experts chosen and secured for your specific fact pattern to assure the best expert evaluation possible. |
| EXCLUSIVITY | Open to all doctors regardless of background | We search for experts only among professors at major US universities and dual credentialed physicians. |
| FEES & TERMS | Variable between experts and cases. Many bill a surcharge on the expert’s fees rather than stepping completely aside and billing only for services rendered. | MarGin Consulting fees are billed per search and expert report. We are not involved in the contractual agreement between your firm and your chosen expert. There is no surcharge paid by the expert to MarGin. We pride ourselves on being transparent and fully ABA Model Rule 1.5(a)(1) compliant. |
| DISCRETION | Doctors openly advertise to promote services or network with nurse referrers to gain engagements as expert witnesses. | Experts identified by MarGin are involved in the practice of their field and not soliciting expert witness engagements. They study and report medical facts. |