The MedSci Advantage at Work for You
For nearly thirty years, Womble Bond Dickinson’s Medical and Scientific Solutions (MedSci) team has been working hand-in-glove with in-house legal departments and their law firms to deliver efficient and customized services to help clients position themselves for success. This 40+ person team of legal, scientific, and research professionals gives you a point-of-view like no other, one developed in court, government, academia, clinical medicine, and scientific research. This team collaborates with clients in the defense of a range of lawsuits, from individual claims to mass torts, and helps clients and their counsel appreciate the complex medical and scientific issues to be addressed as they emerge.
The MedSci team also has the added benefit of collaborating with Womble Bond Dickinson’s full complement of attorneys and legal support staff to provide clients additional resources and a one-stop shop when needed.
MedSci has successfully supported litigation for clients in the U.S. and internationally in a range of industries, including pharmaceutical, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, and consumer goods.
When you partner with Womble Bond Dickinson’s MedSci team, you’ll have the following benefits:
- 40+ person team of litigation and regulatory attorneys, PhD research scientists, MSN and BSN-level nurses with decades of clinical experience, research and technical analysts, medical record transcriptionists, and a research librarian with medical and scientific expertise.
- Access to experts spanning 205 specialties, with 170 medical and scientific specialties.
- Assurance that trial-tested attorneys and legal support staff will be involved in each of your matters, alongside the team’s medical professionals.
- Tiered services to meet your specific needs and budgets.
- Materials secured in a user-friendly cloud-based environment, giving you instant access to information with real-time 24/7 tech support.
Expert Witness Services
High-stakes litigation often boils down to expert witness testimony—particularly when complex medical and scientific facts are on the table. We help clients secure the best possible experts for their specific needs, gather the most compelling evidence to challenge the credibility of opposing experts, and craft expert witness strategies to help present a winning case.
MedSci’s Expert Witness Services team has more than 30 years of experience of working with experts and supporting trial counsel in all phases of expert witness development. While we started MedSci to support product liability and mass torts litigation, we also have significant experience in other types of litigation, including commercial disputes and IP cases, as well as in government investigations and other regulatory compliance-related matters.
How We Can Help
First, MedSci has the contacts. The team can link clients to experts across 170 medical and scientific specialties. But access to experts is more than just a database or directory; instead, it is network of hundreds of professionals with whom MedSci has established relationships. This extensive network can bring experts to the table, but the team’s expert witness and litigation support services provide the real advantage, and include:
- Identifying the right experts to meet the specific needs of your case.
- Vetting experts (both ours and the opposition’s).
- Preparing experts for testimony, leaning on hard-earned experience from more than 300 trials. Working with Womble’s Graphics Solutions team, we help experts engage jurors, communicate complex medical and scientific information, and present compelling information to help your case.
- Digging deep into the opposing experts and basis of their opinions to provide your trial counsel the tools for effective depositions, Daubert/Frye motions, and trial cross-examination.
- Preparing non-expert witnesses for depositions, trials, and compliance-related investigations.
MedSci also knows that every client’s needs are different—and that the bottom line matters. So the team offers tiered expert witness research profiles to meet each client’s specific needs and legal budget.
Medical and Scientific Analyses
It all starts with the facts, and the MedSci team works together to examine the evidence both from a medical/scientific perspective and a legal one. The team identifies the medical and scientific issues key to the defense of the case and then presents it to you in an easy-to-digest work product.
How We Can Help
- Medical Analysis, including chronology reports and case summaries, prepared after. examination of patient medical histories, spotting issues that can help a defense team, including confounding factors, alternate causations, and missing information.
- Scientific and Medical Research/Library Services, customized to meet the needs of litigation attorneys with the latest information from 200+ databases.
- Topical Digests, providing quick access to the most pertinent and up-to-date information on a given topic for one-time or ongoing needs.
- Tailored Memos, curated collection of articles and background information carefully selected to extract key quotes for bolstering your case.
- White Papers, a meticulous analysis of emerging literature, distilling complex information into easily understood insights.
- Medical Billing Review and Analysis, with the option to identify a charge’s relevancy to medical claims for purposes of mediation, settlement, or damages.
- Medical Materials Collection and Oversight, locates, verifies, and organizes patient records and other medical documents relevant to litigation, as well as physical evidence, such as pathology and radiology.
- Deposition Analysis and Summarization, focused on medical and scientific issues, as well as corporate witness testimony, which identifies and selects significant testimony to support litigation strategies.
- Science Day Presentations - when your day in court comes, MedSci will help you be ready, with understandable, graphically appealing, and concise presentations to help lawyers educate the court.
- Trial Graphics, developing accurate, compelling presentations of complex information for judges and juries. The team has the capability to create video animations and detailed images specific to the case and product.
MedSci also has the tech side covered, with real-time 24/7 support. All your materials will be shared in a secure, user-friendly cloud-based environment, giving you instant access to everything you need at any time.
All of this adds up to a point of view you won’t find elsewhere. Let us know how we can put this perspective to work for your team.