THE ELLIS LITIGATION SUPPORT
LEGAL SERVICES SUPPORT GROUP
WHO ARE WE: ELS has established a team of experienced litigation support professionals to assist in the pre-trial preparation for your case. Our team prepares summaries of discovery to assist the ELS experts as they learn the facts of the case and then prepare their reports and/or testimony.
The ELS litigation services support group offers extensive experience and education that few consulting firms can rival. Our experience in fall protection related litigation is unmatched. Few others, if anyone, can boast having summarized hundreds of depositions taken in fall protection cases.
BENEFITS TO YOU: Utilizing the services of the ELS litigation support group provides many benefits to you and your client. We have touched on some of these benefits below:
- Use of the ELS legal services support group greatly reduces the time Dr. Ellis and the other experts have to spend in understanding your case up to the report and deposition stages – this translates into tremendous savings for you and your clients.
- Dr. Ellis, the other ELS experts and you can have full confidence in the quality of the work done by the ELS litigation services group and in the understanding of the material by the person preparing the summaries.
- Dr. Ellis and the other ELS experts can rely on almost immediate turn-around time for summaries prepared by the ELS litigation services support group – our group works exclusively for ELS and can handle a tremendous amount of work in limited time. This allows your legal assistants to focus on other aspects of the case preparation.
- The ELS litigation services support group can readily identify particular points of interest for Dr. Ellis and the other ELS experts and are available for immediate consultation with the ELS experts should any questions arise.
- You can better protect your work-product while ensuring the integrity of the ELS witnesses. The trend in recent years has been to relax the work-product protection to materials provided to an expert witness – regardless of whether the witness relies upon the material provided (see Karn V. Ingersoll-Rand Co., 168 F.R.D. 633 (N.D. Ind.1996)). By utilizing the skills of the ELS litigation services support group you can avoid subjecting your firm’s work product to the scrutiny of opposing counsel. Further, by depending only on work done by our group the credibility of ELS’s experts is free from impeachment based on reliance upon the work of counsel.
- The ELS litigation services support group summaries are complete and free from bias or opinion. Your firm and clients can rely on the ELS litigation services support grouop's work both for the use of expert witnesses and generally for anyone involved in the litigation.
