Level the expert playing field.
The defense arrives with a deep expert bench and a research budget. Give your members both — find the right expert, vet them before the defense does, and walk into every deposition knowing the opposing expert's full record.
Member research is confidential — invisible to anyone outside your team.
The expert is often the swing factor in the case
The same defense experts, case after case
The same IME doctors, biomechanical engineers and reconstructionists appear again and again. Their record spans hundreds of cases no single firm has seen.
Your expert is the one who gets challenged
Daubert motions target the plaintiff's expert. One prior exclusion you didn't know about can end a case before trial.
Every expert cost comes out of your pocket first
On contingency, broker fees and hours of research are fronted before you know whether the case pays.
Small firms don't have a deep bench
Solo and small-firm lawyers still find experts through referrals and listserv posts.
One platform, from finding an expert to cross-examining one
Take apart the defense medical examiner
Retention history, opinions that never change, and judicial criticism — every finding cited to the filing or transcript.
Expose the corporate-retained scientist
Paid relationships, board seats, and published statements that contradict their testimony in product and toxic-tort cases.
Vet your own expert before designation
Catch prior exclusions and damaging past testimony quietly — before the defense does. Your research is never visible to anyone else.
Find a credible expert without a broker
Search 50,000+ experts yourself, or get 3–5 hand-picked experts in 5 business days at a flat fee. No success fee, ever.
Hand off the whole search on a big case
We source, check conflicts, confirm availability and rates, and run outreach until your expert is retained.
The defense expert's whole record, before the deposition
Expert Atlas builds a verified dossier on any expert — litigation history, Daubert challenges, contradictions, conflicts and who pays them. Below is the actual product, running on sample data.
Dr. Alex Sample, Ph.D.
Principal Biomechanical Engineer · Sample Consulting Group
Aka A. J. Sample
Plaintiff / Defense split
- 28 plaintiff
- 17 defense
- 2 unknown
Engagements by year
Area of law
Jurisdictions
- 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 defense's expert
Members ask in plain English and get answers grounded in the expert's actual record — prior testimony, orders, and IME reports — with the source attached.
How often is he retained by the defense?
In 46 of the 49 matters in his record, he was retained by the defense or an insurer .
Has he ever tied a claimant's injury to the accident?
Not in the reports we located. He attributed the injury to pre-existing degeneration in all 31 — and in Harlan v. Metro Transit he conceded he never reviewed the post-accident MRI .
What should I open his deposition with?
His retention history , the MRI concession , and the 2020 order limiting his causation testimony .
Cross-examine from the expert's own record
Every answer cites the filing, order or transcript
Start with a $100 preliminary screening — it credits toward the full report
The right expert for your case, hand-picked
Tell us your case questions and our research team delivers 3–5 suitable experts within 5 business days — each with why they fit and their plaintiff/defense profile. Contact details included. Sample data below.
| Expert | Why recommended | Side profile | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
Dr. Maya Castillo Neurologist, MD | Treats traumatic brain injury clinically; has explained diffuse axonal injury to juries in 6 trucking cases. | Primarily Plaintiff | Revealed once your report is delivered |
Thomas Reyes, PE Accident Reconstructionist | Former state patrol reconstruction lead; ECM data specialist with no exclusions on record. | Balanced | Revealed once your report is delivered |
Dr. Alan Whitaker Life Care Planner, CLCP | Plans built on treating-physician prescriptions — the approach that holds up best against exclusion motions. | Balanced | Revealed once your report is delivered |
Sample data for illustration — contact details are revealed on your own delivered report.
Or hand off the whole search
Exlitem Concierge sources, vets, checks conflicts and runs outreach. Members follow along on their order page — anonymized candidates appear as experts respond, and they steer the search with one click.
- Placed
- Sourcing
- 3Outreach
- 4Candidates ready
- 5Retained
Candidates in outreach
Neurosurgery
MD, board certified
Trucking Safety
FMCSA compliance specialist
Economics
PhD, forensic economist
Backed by the records that matter
Why associations partner with Exlitem
Give your members the expert resources large defense firms take for granted — at flat, predictable prices that work on contingency.
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, “Cross-examining the defense medical examiner.”
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
- 01
Sign a partner agreement
A short agreement. No cost to the association.
- 02
Share your member link
Members sign up through a co-branded link and get member pricing automatically.
- 03
Launch together
We co-host a CLE or webinar, then report program activity to you every quarter.
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