Overview: Expert Reports

In TRIAL DIRECTOR Evidence, you can manage, navigate, and display expert reports via the Expert Report Explorer. Expert reports convey the authoritative opinions of an expert on some controversial matter of a case. This explorer provides a more efficient method for organizing these reports in TRIAL DIRECTOR. This explorer provides a more efficient method for organizing expert reports in TRIAL DIRECTOR, while also allowing you to save individual items contained within these reports for improved navigation and quicker recall. The sections below, and the related topics linked, discuss this explorer in greater detail and provide information on how to access it from the Evidence module.

Expert Reports provide valuable information on a given subject from one or more authors with expertise in the field. You can manage the expert reports circulating in a case using the Expert Report Explorer in TRIAL DIRECTOR.

Expert Report Explorer

The Expert Report Explorer allows you to add, rearrange, rename, and generally manage expert reports in the case. From the explorer, you can open these reports in the Expert Reports Work Area.

Open an Expert Report

Once you've added expert reports to a case, they are visible both in the Expert Report Explorer and the Documents Explorer. To open a document and review it in the Expert Report Work Area, locate the needed document in the Expert Report Explorer and either double-click it or click the Open Item button in the explorer ribbon bar.

Expert Report Work Area

The Expert Report Work Area allows you to work with a specific document, applying markups and redactions as well as performing other tasks like deskewing scanned images and saving the document to another location.