Experts as Industry

Via Blog 702, this Fort Worth Star-Telegram story is worth reading.  Its focus on defense-side witnesses is a bit striking (as Peter notes).  In practice, my general sense was that our experts (I was a defense lawyer) were rarely making as much as the other side’s, but that may be true (if at all) in the mass tort context, where there’s no monopoly on the defense side in having the resources to do big-budget focus groups and the like.