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For defense bar associations

Know the opposing expert better than they know themselves.

Verified expert intelligence for Daubert motions, cross-examination and case valuation — every finding cited to source, at flat fees that fit carrier and client budgets.

Member research is confidential — invisible to anyone outside your team.

The problem

The expert is often the swing factor in the case

The same opposing experts keep coming back

Life care planners, economists, treating physicians and reconstructionists who testify for a living. Their records are spread across dockets no single firm tracks.

Outsized verdicts start with an unchallenged expert

An unchallenged damages expert anchors the jury's number.

Budgets cap your research hours

Billing guidelines and audits cut the hours it takes to research an expert properly.

Disclosure deadlines don't wait

You have weeks — not months — to build a Daubert motion after expert disclosures.

What your members can do

One platform, from finding an expert to cross-examining one

Expert Atlas

Build the Daubert motion

Prior exclusions and limitations, judicial criticism, and methodology shifts between cases — each linked to the order or transcript.

Expert Atlas

Challenge the damages experts

Life care plans and economic models whose assumptions change from case to case.

Expert Atlas

Expose the professional witness

Retention history and the talks, interviews and marketing to law firms that never made the CV.

Expert monitoring

Stay current on repeat experts

New filings, challenges, disciplinary actions and publications flagged automatically after the dossier is delivered.

Search Report & Concierge

Staff your own bench fast

3–5 vetted experts in 5 business days at a flat fee — or full sourcing, conflict checks and outreach through Concierge.

Expert Atlas

A Daubert-ready record on the opposing expert

Expert Atlas builds a verified dossier on any expert — litigation history, challenges, contradictions, conflicts and retention patterns. Below is the actual product, running on sample data.

Sample data — fictional expert

Dr. Alex Sample, Ph.D.

Principal Biomechanical Engineer · Sample Consulting Group

Aka A. J. Sample

2 EXCLUSIONS60% PLAINTIFFBiomechanical EngineeringAccident ReconstructionInjury Causation
47 cases67 documents92% coveragePh.D., Biomechanics
Expert engagements47across 22 courts· 2 personal suits
Years active15Active · 2024
Retaining side60 / 40Plaintiff / Defense
Challenge rate17%Excluded 2×
Jurisdictions8states

Plaintiff / Defense split

  • 28 plaintiff
  • 17 defense
  • 2 unknown

Engagements by year

'13
'14
'15
'16
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24
Plaintiff
Defense

Area of law

Jurisdictions

Fewer
More
  • Retained by plaintiff in 60% of engagements, concentrated in product liability and personal injury.
  • Two Daubert exclusions on methodology grounds — both in federal court, 2019 and 2023.

This is the actual product — every number above is illustrative; your report is built from real dockets, cited to source. Request yours →

Ask Atlas about the opposing expert

Members ask in plain English and get answers grounded in the expert's actual record — prior reports, orders and testimony — with the source attached, ready for the motion exhibit.

Ask Atlas — Dana Roe, RN, CLCP (plaintiff life care planner)Sample

Has her life care plan ever been excluded or limited?

Yes. In Ortiz v. Crestline Logistics (D. Colo., 2022) the court excluded every item in her plan not supported by a treating physician's prescription .

Are her cost assumptions consistent across cases?

No. She priced attendant care at $28/hour in a 2019 plan and $45/hour for the same region in 2023 — citing no new source.

What should I lead with in the Daubert motion?

The Ortiz exclusion , the unexplained $28-to-$45 rate change , and her retention by plaintiff's counsel in 38 of 41 matters .

Cited findings drop straight into the motion

Open every source on LexisNexis or Docket Alarm — or we pull it from the court

Flat per-report fees — a predictable line item for any budget

Share dossiers across your firm and with the client on the matter

Explore Expert Atlas

A vetted bench, delivered in five business days

Tell us your case questions and our research team delivers 3–5 suitable experts — each with why they fit and their plaintiff/defense profile. Contact details included. Sample data below.

ExpertWhy recommendedSide profileContact

Dr. Karen Liu

Orthopedic Surgeon, MD

Active spine practice; clear, measured testimony on degenerative vs. traumatic findings in 12 prior matters.

Primarily Defense
Revealed once your report is delivered

Robert Hale, CPA, CFF

Forensic Economist

Rebuts lost-earnings and life-care cost models; no exclusions across 40+ engagements.

Balanced
Revealed once your report is delivered

Dr. Samuel Ortega

Biomechanical Engineer, PhD

Injury-causation analysis for low-speed impacts; peer-reviewed methodology that has held up under Daubert.

Primarily Defense
Revealed once your report is delivered

Sample data for illustration — contact details are revealed on your own delivered report.

Exlitem Concierge

Or hand off the whole search

Exlitem Concierge sources, vets, checks conflicts and runs outreach — ideal for high-volume dockets. Members follow along on their order page and steer the search with one click.

Concierge order CO-2026-0142Sample
  1. Placed
  2. Sourcing
  3. 3
    Outreach
  4. 4
    Candidates ready
  5. 5
    Retained

Candidates in outreach

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

MD, board certified

Southeast
15+ years
Defense-leaning
Cleared

Vocational Rehabilitation

CRC, ABVE diplomate

Northeast
10–15 years
Balanced
Responded

Human Factors

PhD, CHFP

National
20+ years
Defense-leaning
Awaiting reply

Backed by the records that matter

52,690+
Experts analyzed
808+
Disciplines covered
Nationwide
state & federal court records
5 days
typical dossier turnaround
100%
of findings cited to source
For association leaders

Why associations partner with Exlitem

Help your members do more for their carrier and corporate clients — senior-level expert research at flat, predictable prices.

A member benefit with real value

Members get preferred pricing on Expert Atlas and Expert Search Reports through a dedicated member signup link.

No cost to the association

Nothing to buy, nothing to administer. We handle onboarding and member support.

CLE programming, ready to go

We co-host a launch CLE or webinar for your members — for example, “Winning the Daubert motion.”

Confidential by design

Every member's searches, screenings and dossiers stay private. Not visible to other members, other firms — or to the association.

Quarterly partner reporting

Member signups and program activity each quarter, in aggregate. Never what or whom a member researched.

How the partnership works

  1. 01

    Sign a partner agreement

    A short agreement. No cost to the association.

  2. 02

    Share your member link

    Members sign up through a co-branded link and get member pricing automatically.

  3. 03

    Launch together

    We co-host a CLE or webinar, then report program activity to you every quarter.

Questions, answered