The prosecution and defense legal teams currently spend a significant amount of professional hours dealing with talent management – from recruiting of the doctors, to coordinating with their clinical practice schedules, to other logistics. All these activities can take away focus from the actual lawyering. A lawyer’s most precious commodity is their time. Talent management is very time-consuming and unlikely the reason why an attorney went to law school.
CMEF (Court Martial Expert Finder) was started by a physician who has enjoyed serving as an expert witness in military courts-martial, who observed a problem that exists in the current system regarding expert talent sourcing and management. There exist inefficiencies with scheduling which are disruptive to the attorneys, to the physicians, and even to patient care. Talent management is an art best left to professional case managers who routinely work with physicians and other talent and are experienced with assisting them for their expert cases.