> According to a court deposition in August 2023, Baccarelli said he had made “about $150,000” as an expert witness in the case.
In flyover states in the US, expert witnesses on cases I've seen are often $400 or more per hour, including correspondence, reading/material review, and meetings.
Courtroom days often cost thousands if not tens of thousands per day in appearance fees, plus travel, food, and a nice hotel.
The average costs when dealing with expert witnesses for New York federal court would be much higher than my low cost state.
$150k seems on the lower end for an expert on a matter that ended up at trial to me and probably indicates a few hundred hours of review, meetings, testimony, plus any trial day costs.
anigbrowl•1h ago
I think this might be a cultural mismatch. Expert witnesses in the UK can be paid, but the sums involved are pocket money by American standards. Legal proceedings there also tend not to run as long, notwithstanding the Bleak House stereotypes.
Knew one, who got tired of his fee being swallowed by his employer and shifted to a smaller fee, and a very large in-kind: his choice of Michelin starred restaurant, his choice of wines. No questions to cost entertained. Everyone wound up happy I guess.
bigfatkitten•40m ago
That’s only the scale that Legal Aid pays. It doesn’t bind anyone else, including the CPS.
Experts are otherwise free to charge whatever fee they like on a commercial basis, though in civil matters, the more outrageous the fee, the smaller the chance that it would be recoverable from the other side if costs are awarded.
rolph•1h ago
"In general, Dr Baccarelli downplays those studies that undercut his causation thesis and emphasises those that align with his thesis.”
exactly opposite the way it should be done. generally we attempt to invalidate a hypothesis, experience an antithesis, and form a synthesis from these proceedings as per Hegel.
leakycap•1h ago
In flyover states in the US, expert witnesses on cases I've seen are often $400 or more per hour, including correspondence, reading/material review, and meetings.
Courtroom days often cost thousands if not tens of thousands per day in appearance fees, plus travel, food, and a nice hotel.
The average costs when dealing with expert witnesses for New York federal court would be much higher than my low cost state.
$150k seems on the lower end for an expert on a matter that ended up at trial to me and probably indicates a few hundred hours of review, meetings, testimony, plus any trial day costs.
anigbrowl•1h ago
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/expert-witnesses-in-legal-aid-ca...
ggm•1h ago
bigfatkitten•40m ago
Experts are otherwise free to charge whatever fee they like on a commercial basis, though in civil matters, the more outrageous the fee, the smaller the chance that it would be recoverable from the other side if costs are awarded.