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One month of work for $765k. I was expecting one or two orders of magnitude lower payouts for a single expert witness in a single case. Who can afford to pay th
by vasco 3y ago
One month of work for $765k. I was expecting one or two orders of magnitude lower payouts for a single expert witness in a single case. Who can afford to pay this?
- neurocline 3y agoI’d love to hire people that can work 900 hours in a single month. Just tell me where to find them. Or, wait, maybe they work in higher dimensions. Drat.
- roamerz 3y agoAI
- AlbertCory 3y agoWhere are you getting this "single month" stuff?
- olddustytrail 3y agoThe person they're replying to who said "one month". One is singular.
- AlbertCory 3y agoI didn't say that, though.
- olddustytrail 3y agoThey weren't replying to you, they were replying to neurocline.
- AlbertCory 3y agothen they should have replied directly to neurocline, who didn't say anything about 900 hours.
- olddustytrail 3y agoSorry, that was neurocline responding directly to vasco. Either way, they weren't responding directly to you. vasco was the one responding to you.
- Retric 3y agoWhat you can work and what you can bill are two different things. I know of a few people that charge their rate from the minute they leave on a trip which is basically the min they put down their phone after accepting the contract to the minute they get back. However, they are all doing emergency, the company is losing tens of thousands per hour on the low end until this is fixed, kind of things. In practice it’s equivalent to charging a higher hourly rate, but it makes billing simpler for these kinds of contracts.
- Jtsummers 3y ago> One month of work for $765k. 900 hours is a bit more than one month. Even if he only worked 24x7 that's over 5 weeks. Assuming 10 hour days and 5 days a week that's 18 weeks, just shy of 13 weeks if 10 hours a day and 7 days a week.
- tornato7 3y agoApple and/or Samsung
- HWR_14 3y agoThere aren't even 900 hours in a month. That's 765k for 900 billed hours, and you have to imagine that a good chunk of unbilled hours also occurred. So maybe that's for the equivalent of 8 months of boring work. Not continuous 8 months either, you have to schedule other things between prepping. A lot of money. But not for a billion dollar lawsuit. As for "who can afford this" is a company worth tens of billions suing over a major product line vs a trillion dollar company.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> and you have to imagine that a good chunk of unbilled hours also occurred No, I don’t have to imagine that expert witnesses do an hourly-billed contract gig but are bad billing hours.
- HWR_14 3y agoOnce they get the contract. I guarantee that the recruitment process and negotiation process was more involved than a phone call. And there could be work specifically excluded as "billable hours" that is still work. For instance, is the time to fly out compensated?
- gamblor956 3y agoAll work that an expert does for a case is billable, including travel time. However, experts will frequently provide discounted or even unbilled work for individuals in certain circumstances (like criminal cases where the expert is testing in a forensic capacity to counter improper forensic analysis presented by a prosecution expert).
- HWR_14 3y agoSome experts charge for their time at a reduced rate (e.g. 50%) for travel, some a predetermined amount (taking the risk of delays on themselves), some only for the cost of the tickets, hotels, meals, etc. There is, AFAIK and based on what I can Google, no universal answer.
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- drc500free 3y agoSpecialized attorneys with subject matter expertise are billing them $1500/hr, so $850 is kind of a bargain.
- AlbertCory 3y agoHe was an MIT professor of CS.
- AlbertCory 3y agoWho said "one month"?