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Posted by ExpertPages on 3/20/07
What is ExpertPages?
ExpertPages.com was the first Internet directory of
experts, expert witnesses and consultants. Since 1995 it
has been repeatedly recognized as the Internet's leading
resource on expert witnesses.
Each month Expert Pages assists tens of thousands of
attorneys, law firms, judges and court personnel,
government and law enforcement agencies, insurance
companies and others in the legal, business, insurance and
forensic communities to retain experts, expert witnesses,
consultants and investigators.
ExpertPages also provides extensive information to assist
attorneys and legal personnel to effectively locate and
utilize experts in investigations, discovery, depositions,
trial preparation, expert reports, trial testimony and
appeals.
ExpertPages also helps train and educate professionals
considering serving as expert witnesses or consultants in
legal and forensic matters as to what is expected of them
in preparing expert reports, in testifying, and in
providing their services to the legal community, enabling
them to become highly effective. ExpertPages does NOT
receive any portion of any fees you pay to any expert
listed on this Website.
What Do Leading Legal Media Say About Expert Pages?
Lexis-Nexis (a unit of a firm that operates the nation's
oldest directory of lawyers and has its own experts
directory) recognizes “ExpertPages …. is by far one of the
best sites in its field.”
Lawyers Weekly USA -- which also publishes its own experts
list in print and on line had this to say about
ExpertPages:
"Expert Pages is the best free directory we found. It has
the largest number of experts in the widest variety of
areas and geographic locations.
"And it is very easy to use. You can search by keyword,
subject or state. Many areas of expertise are very well
represented, and a number of obscure topics have a few
entries. It even provides the names of other types of
consultants that assist law firms.
Who Publishes ExpertPages?
ExpertPages is owned and operated by Advice Company
(the “Company”) which also publishes many other leading
websites for professionals.
Advice Company, founded in 1991, is a privately held firm
headquartered in Sausalito, California immediately across
the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. It also
maintains an office in the New York City Metropolitan Area.
In addition to ExpertPages, Advice Company publishes such
other leading Internet sites as FreeAdvice® and
AttorneyPages and a print newsletter, the Advice & Counsel
Newsletter™, which is distributed by more than 10 leading
insurance companies including Fortis, ING, Modern Woodmen,
and Standard Insurance to well over 50,000 of their
important customers each month. You can be confident that
ExpertPages quality control and financial strength meet
these leading firms' exacting standards.
Why Do Lawyers and Others Use ExpertPages to Locate
Experts?
Consider what Lawyers Weekly stated about ExpertPages:
· ExpertPages has "the largest number of experts."
· ExpertPages has experts in "the widest variety
of areas", "even in obscure areas."
· ExpertPages has experts in the "widest variety
of ... geographic locations."
· ExpertPages is "very easy to use."
Among the other things that lawyers, insurers and various
agencies like most about ExpertPages is that it helps them
locate experts from all over the United States and Canada,
and even experts based in abroad. In many cases an "out of
town" expert is extraordinarily persuasive.
ExpertPages gives lawyers and insurers a far larger
selection than any local print directories, and is far
more up to date.
ExpertPages also lists many highly qualified experts who
prefer to testify only occasionally, and are not part of
any "old boys network". Such experts present a "fresh
face" to the jury, or bring a fresh perspective to the
lawyers. Thus ExpertPages contains the names not only of
many experts who testify regularly, but some who do so
only occasionally. Both types of experts find it very cost
effective to list on ExpertPages, as just one assignment
can pay for their listing for decades.
How Is ExpertPages So Good at Understanding the Needs of
Experts, Lawyers, Insurers and Government Agencies?
ExpertPages is dedicated exclusively to meeting the needs
of expert witnesses and the professionals who retain
them! That has been ExpertPages sole focus.
ExpertPages' founder and CEO is Gerry Goldsholle who is
himself a nationally recognized expert. He has had a
distinguished career in law and business. After graduation
from Columbia Law School and military service he was a
trial lawyer for the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission, and worked in a top-rated law firm and in
corporate practice. He also served as Chair of many
committees of the American Bar Association, the State Bar
of California and the Association of the Bar of the City
of New York. As a business executive he created two multi-
billion dollar businesses at Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, retiring as President & Chief Executive Officer
of MetLife Brokerage at age 50. He then went on to create
Advice Company, ExpertPages' parent. He also has consulted
for banks, brokerage firms, insurance companies, testified
as an expert in litigation for both plaintiffs and
defendants, and served as an expert before both houses of
the Congress of the United States and numerous state
legislatures. He knows what lawyers need and experts want.
The executives and staff of ExpertPages are helpful,
experienced, long service, talented and motivated
professionals with impressive credentials, a comprehensive
understanding of the needs of experts and the legal
profession, and extensive Internet experience. For
example, our CTO completed 2 years of medical school and
served as CTO of a leading medical education site before
joining the Company in 2000. Our Executive Editor had 28
years experience with another leading legal publication
prior to joining ExpertPages in 1997. Our Business
Development executive joined the Company in 1996 after
work at a law firm. Our customer service staff each is a
graduate of a leading college, and several hold Masters
Degrees.
Why Do Lawyers Come to ExpertPages to Retain the Listed
Experts?
ExpertPages attracts over 1,000,000 unique visitors each
year - primarily lawyers, legal professionals, and
representatives of government, law enforcement, and the
insurance communities, who are specifically looking to
retain expert witnesses. Many come because they know
ExpertPages is the best,. They also come because we
actively and continually promote ExpertPages and the
experts listed on site. You've already read some of the
press we received. Among other techniques we use to
attract qualified visitors are:
· Years of good experience with us. Lawyers and
legal professionals know from many years of experience
that when they come to ExpertPages they'll find qualified
experts and that we screen and credential most of the
experts listed. They trust ExpertPages.
· High Search Engine Positioning. We work very
hard to keep ExpertPages at or near the top of most search
engine listings in most topics on our site.
· Bookmarking. As we were first, and rated as
the "best", many of the nation's leading Law Firms,
Insurance Company claims and legal departments, and
government agencies have already bookmarked our site. When
they need an expert they know ExpertPages is the first
place to turn.
· Linkages from many of the leading websites used
by lawyers and government agencies. We enjoy many links
from other sites those who hire lawyers use, including the
Federal Government's site and many Bar Association sites,
because ExpertPages is a great site, and its management is
highly credible to lawyers, insurers and government
agencies.
· Media stories and public relations. ExpertPages
repeatedly has been the featured website on national media
when stories are done on expert witnesses; we've been on
National Public Radio, TalkAmerica, Fox TV News and
numerous other programs, plus the Legal Press, including
repeated stories (with website screen shots) in the
National Law Journal, Lawyers Weekly USA, Legal Times, New
Jersey Law Journal (as site of the week), papers,
magazines and electronic media.
· Paid ads in the American Bar Association's ABA
Journal and Trial (the magazine of the Association of
Trial Lawyers of America).
· Booths and promotions at Bar Association
meetings including many ABA and ATLA Annual Meetings.
· Cross references from our own AttorneyPages and
FreeAdvice sites
· Speeches before Bar Association and other legal
groups. We're constantly marketing ExpertPages and the
experts on the site.
We work VERY HARD, and INCUR GREAT EXPENSE, on an ONGOING
BASIS to market both ExpertPages to those who hire experts
and to promote the experts on ExpertPages!
Is Use of ExpertPages Free to Lawyers? Lawyers Do Not Pay
ExpertPages Anything When they Hire an Expert?
Correct! ExpertPages may be used by lawyers and others
looking to retain an expert for Free. They never pay us
anything when they retain an expert through use of the
Site!
Experts Never Share Their Fees With ExpertPages?
That's right. We never share any part of the fees the
expert earns. If you're an expert, everything you earn is
yours. You set your own fee. You keep everything you make.
There is absolutely no middlemen and absolutely no "mark-
up". The experts who list pay only an annual listing fee,
nothing more. And our listing fees are very reasonable.
Does ExpertPages Really Work?
Absolutely! No business or organization can possibly work
unless it meets multiple needs. Thousands of experts
already know that ExpertPages works because ExpertPages:
· Helps law firms, insurance companies, the media,
corporate legal departments and government agencies (both
law enforcement and regulatory) and others in the public
sector -- those who retain expert witnesses and
consultants -- to quickly and inexpensively locate highly
qualified experts who can assist them in evaluating,
understanding and explaining business, forensic, medical,
scientific, technical and similar matters that are at the
heart most litigated cases.
· Markets the experts and consultants listed on
ExpertPages to those who retain experts and consultants,
and
· Serves as a resource for information about the
use of experts and consultants.
The proof is that ExpertPages has generated lucrative and
interesting assignments for many of the experts and
consultants listed, as you can see for yourself from their
comments right on site.
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