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Expert witness practice

Everything you have already said, and where you said it.

Your reports, depositions, and papers, searched as one record, so you see where two of them read differently before opposing counsel does.

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Traced to the page, or it tells you it isn’t there Your documents only The opinion stays yours
Why experts call us

Three places this work actually breaks

Not the analysis. The part where you have to account for two decades of your own prior work under time pressure.

You have testified on this before. Where, and how?

Twenty years of reports and transcripts, across cases that each ran years. Somewhere in there is what you said about this exact failure mode. Finding it means remembering which case it was.

“Thirty years of cause-and-origin reports sit in folders only the senior partner can navigate.”

What it changes A week of re-reading → an afternoon

The divergence you did not know was there

Two statements can both be right and still read like a contradiction side by side. The problem is not that you changed your mind. It is that opposing counsel finds the pair before you do.

“If it will not survive cross-examination, it is worse than useless, it loses the case.”

What it changes You find the pair first

Your basis has to be traceable, not just correct

Engineers draw roughly a quarter of challenges to expert testimony, and amended Rule 702 raised what has to be shown. An unstated basis or an untraceable citation is the opening, even when the opinion was sound.

“The code in force on the date of loss is not the code sitting on my shelf today.”

What it changes Every statement names its source
On your own file

Three steps, and the third is the one you cannot do by hand

Consistency across a twenty-year archive is not a reading problem. It is a recall problem.

Step 01

Load what you have already said

Prior reports, deposition and trial transcripts, published papers, conference material. You approve every source; nothing outside them is read.

Step 02

Ask the question opposing counsel will ask

“Have I taken a position on weld porosity as an initiating defect?” It comes back with the statements and the pages they sit on.

Step 03

See where the wording diverges

Run the consistency check across the whole set. It shows you pairs that read differently, with both sources attached, so you can decide which are real differences and which are scope.

The consistency check

Run it before the deposition, not during it

It collects every position you have taken on an issue, shows you the pairs that read differently, and stops for you to decide which are real.

Input Weld porosity as an initiating defect

Two divergences, both sourced
  • One is a scope difference, not a contradiction
  • One needs restating before you are asked about it
Halloran (2021), p.88Report 2019-088, p.4
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It finds the pairs and shows you both sources. Which of them is a real difference and which is a difference of scope is your call, and the app stops so you can make it.
Built for this work

The apps we build for testifying experts

Prior Testimony Consistency Check

The pairs that read differently, found by you first.

Deposition Prep Pack

Everything you have said on the issue, page-cited.

Opinion Locator

Where you said it: report, transcript, or paper.

Cites FRE 702NFPA 921ASTM E620ASTM E678 It reads your own record and the editions you load; the opinion stays yours.
What we will not claim

One refusal, up front

The refusal: we will not tell you this makes your testimony unchallengeable, and we will not draft a word of it. Any vendor who offers you either of those is selling you a problem.
Questions we get first

Before you send us a transcript

Does it write or shape my testimony?

No, and it is built not to. It retrieves what you have already said and shows you where you said it. It does not draft, does not suggest a conclusion, and does not have an opinion about your opinion. Everything it produces is material for your review, with the source attached so you can check it.

Will this make my testimony harder to challenge?

We will not make that claim, how a court treats your methodology is not something software decides. What we will say is narrower and checkable: you can find every prior statement you have made on an issue, see the source page for each one, and see where two of them read differently, before someone else does it for you.

What stops it from inventing a prior statement?

It answers only from the documents you loaded, never the open web, and every statement it returns arrives with its document and page so you can open it. When your sources do not contain an answer, it tells you, instead of producing something plausible. You are never asked to trust something you cannot trace.

What does this actually change on the day?

How you walk in. There is a difference between going into a deposition knowing what your record establishes and what it does not, and going in hoping nothing surfaces that you have not seen. Having checked the whole set yourself, found the pairs that read differently, and settled which are real scope differences, you answer from a position you have already tested. Confidence is not a feature we can ship, but knowing your own record is, and the rest follows from it.

Could my transcripts and reports end up training a tool my opposing experts use?

No. Your documents stay in your own tenant and we do not train on them. Your archive is your edge, and nothing about how this works requires giving that up.

Bring one you already know the answer to

Test it against a deposition you remember well

Send one transcript and ask it something you already know you said. Twenty minutes, and you will see whether it finds the passage and names the page.