When we formed the Medical and Scientific Solutions Team, we sought to do more for our clients, by supporting the full spectrum of their needs. More than 30 years later, the positive results speak for themselves. 

With trial-tested attorneys, medical professionals, and scientific consultants on our team, we have the topical knowledge and experience to guide you to more successful outcomes. 

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The MedSci Advantage at Work

For nearly thirty years, our Medical and Scientific Solutions (MedSci) Team has provided efficient, customized services to help clients achieve their goals. Our diverse team of legal, scientific, and research professionals brings experience from court, government, academia, clinical medicine, and scientific research, allowing us to support the full spectrum of our clients’ needs.

Benefits of Partnering with MedSci:

  • 40+ litigation and regulatory attorneys, PhD scientists, nurses, research and technical analysts, medical record transcriptionists, and medical research librarians
  • Access to experts spanning over 200 specialties, primarily in the medical and scientific fields
  • Trial-tested attorneys and legal support staff working with scientific and medical professionals on each matter
  • Tiered services tailored to specific needs and budgets
  • Secure, user-friendly cloud-based environment to access information in real time
  • Comprehensive consulting services tailored to your unique needs, providing strategic guidance and actionable insights to drive success

Top Medical and Scientific Experts

Need expert testimony for high-stakes litigation? MedSci connects you with top medical and scientific experts, gathers the most compelling evidence to challenge the credibility of opposing experts, and crafts winning strategies. With 30+ years of experience in product liability, mass torts, commercial disputes, IP cases, and government investigations, we deliver excellence across numerous medical and scientific specialties.

  • Precise expert matching for your case needs
  • Thorough vetting of both our and opposing experts
  • Expert development and preparation to ensure witnesses are fully prepared for deposition and trial
  • Legal work product and scientific research to ensure counsel is prepared for opposing expert depositions and cross-examinations

Medical and Scientific Solutions

Our team provides medical and scientific analyses of case evidence and offers strategic recommendations to assist trial counsel with successful litigation defenses.

  • Medical Analysis: Chronology reports and case summaries identifying crucial defense factors and evaluation of medical expenses for settlements or damages 
  • Medical Materials Collection, organization, and oversight, including records, pathology, and radiology
  • Litigation Consultation: Insight into case strengths and vulnerabilities to maximize trial outcomes 
  • Research/Library Services: Tailored litigation and scientific research from 200+ databases
  • Topical Digests: Quick access to relevant information for ongoing needs
  • Tailored Memos: Curated articles and quotes to strengthen your case
  • White Papers: In-depth analysis of emerging literature
  • Deposition Summarization: Evaluation of key testimonies and reliance literature for strategy
  • Graphics and Presentations: Compelling presentations for court, including animations and images, for trials, hearings, and science day

Life Science Consulting

In addition to extensive legal services, we offer unique non-legal scientific consulting. Our experience spans life science consulting, medical writing, and funding acquisition, providing specialized support in scientific research, healthcare innovation, and regulatory compliance.

  • Strategy Consulting: Strategic guidance on enhancing business development strategies and optimizing organizational outcomes
  • Life Science Consulting: Consultancy support for scientific research, development, regulatory compliance, and innovation in healthcare and biotechnology
  • Medical Writing: High-quality documentation and reports to articulate complex medical information clearly and accurately for scientific publications, regulatory submissions, and educational materials
  • Funding Acquisition for Startups: Assistance securing financial resources through strategic planning, investor relations, and grant applications to fuel innovation and growth in the medical and scientific sectors
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How we've helped our clients

Litigation Support Success Story 

Based on the Medical and Scientific Solutions team’s extensive experience collecting physical evidence, the team was engaged to facilitate the transfer of pathology materials from a plaintiff’s counsel to a defense expert witness.  

The team provided chain of custody documents to the plaintiff’s counsel with detailed specifications, including the requirement for photographic documentation of the pathology at the time of transfer. Relying on these required photographs, the defense counsel succeeded in making a spoilation claim based upon the broken seal of a specimen container. 

 

Expert Research Team Success Story 

The Charge

Locate, vet, and report on potential expert witnesses in various fields in nationwide litigation involving an MDL and hundreds of state court cases.

The Action

A client engaged Medical and Scientific Solutions to locate, vet, and report on potential expert witnesses in various fields for nationwide litigation involving an MDL and hundreds of state court cases.

After collaborating with national counsel and establishing a detailed assessment of the areas of expertise needed, the team researched legal databases, scientific and medical directories, and professional associations to identify the leading experts in the desired fields.

Once identified, the team reviewed the experts’ credentials and licensing, national and local media presence, publications and social media activity, potential conflicts of interest, research grants and publications, and prior legal work as an expert or party. The team specifically reviewed court opinions, pleadings, testimony, and other litigation documents to determine the outcome of any Daubert challenges, identify any testimony by an expert that had been excluded, or verify if a court had admonished the expert.

Partnering with national counsel, the team created a database of over 2,700 potential experts covering 65 different specialties, establishing an expert witness pool with credibility and depth. Approximately 90 experts were ultimately retained for expert consultation in the litigation.
 

Research Team Success Story 

A client engaged Medical and Scientific Solutions to read, analyze, and translate the intricate scientific issues involved in nationwide toxic tort litigation.

The team’s PhD scientists meticulously reviewed hundreds of scientific papers and articles to identify the key findings, potential weaknesses, and validity of the studies. They translated complex scientific jargon into clear, concise explanations for attorneys and created a database of relevant disease-specific research.

Working closely with counsel, they provided real-time insights and answered questions to ensure the soundness of potential defenses based in science.

 

Project Management Success Story 

A client approached Medical and Scientific Solutions seeking comprehensive assistance with project management, specifically tailored to navigating the complex landscape of multi-state Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) regulations. Initially, the project focused on enhanced project management oversight and reporting. However, the scope expanded to include creating a dashboard of prioritized objectives with status tracking, building a timeline of critical deadlines impacting the client, and coordinating with multiple organizations.

The resulting business value for the client included identification of multi-state requirements, a tracking mechanism to ensure regulatory compliance, and ongoing reporting to the client management team demonstrating progress and risk mitigation of ESG expectations.
 

Medical Analysis Success Story 

For a client, resolving a matter pre-litigation hinged on their ability to credibly disprove the allegation that the client’s product caused a patient’s death.

Medical and Scientific Solutions nurses utilized the decedent’s medical records to demonstrate that death was overwhelmingly consistent with drug overdose, rather than the alleged toxic effects of the client’s product. By further distilling the hospital records and identifying inconsistencies with the survivor’s allegations, the team determined that a single caregiver had suggested that the product caused the decedent’s death, which had then influenced the impressions and diagnoses documented by subsequent caregivers, despite the fact that decedent’s history of product use was not known to cause the alleged injury. The team consulted with multiple expert witnesses, all of whom concurred with the causation theory of drug overdose.

The matter was resolved satisfactorily without litigation, with contributions from the specialty services of the team.

 

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