 The Expert Witness
In Law & Order, the expert witness takes the stand to pontificate
on a key issue. The case hinges on his or her demeanor. In real life, the expert
witness rarely reaches the courtroom but presents his testimony via affidavits and
during depositions-and only after hours and hours of review and analysis.
JurInnov's most recent role as expert witness involved a review and audit of a
huge electronic discovery repository system, which had been implemented by a vendor
hired by a very large company's law firm. Let's call the company ProductCo.
ProductCo does business in a highly regulated industry and must comply with
an ever-growing burden from regulators. ProductCo relied on their law firm
to figure out how best to implement an electronic discovery repository system
that would make regulatory reporting more efficient and cost-effective. The
law firm engaged a vendor we'll call Z Inc.
Z Inc. set up the system, and everything seemed to be working fine until eight
months later, when the key regulatory agency found that ProductCo may have
missed producing certain documents. ProductCo questioned its law firm, who
questioned Z Inc. who agreed to do its own internal review to find the problem
and fix it.
ProductCo decided that this was a lot like the wolf guarding the chicken coop,
and so they hired JurInnov to do an independent review and audit of the system. JurInnov
produced a report that convinced ProductCo and its law firm that the flaw in the system
had, in fact, been corrected. JurInnov then served as an expert witness on behalf of
ProductCo, persuading the regulatory agency that all was in order.
Case closed.
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