Expert witnesses can provide tremendous guidance during a trial. They help make sure the facts in the case are properly communicated during the legal process. They may even help clients win a case. Most experts spend countless hours and dollars educating themselves to be the best in their fields. For a specific lawsuit, they have to spend many hours learning about the case, dissecting it, researching it, and coming up with a credible and defensible solution.

Expert witnesses are typically convincing and support their comments with reliable resources. The best expert witnesses are unbiased, which is why they are often needed in the courtroom where tension is high among the parties.

Experts in the intangible asset realm spend tremendous amounts of time conducting an intellectual property (IP) valuation or damage analysis. An IP valuation analyst must review all of the IP, which can be quite complex, the markets associated with the IP, and competitors in the field; discover advantages and risks; calculate the economic life; and much more. For some inventions, it can take thousands of patents to cover one technical or design aspect. This means that an IP valuation analyst could spend considerable time just reviewing the patents. However, done properly, IP valuations and damages analysis provide strong evidence in a court of law.