Litigation counsel
For counsel: support or challenge an expert's rate
You don't need us to tell you what a reasonable-fee argument looks like. You need the record assembled: what courts have actually allowed experts like yours, quoted from the orders, with citations opposing counsel can check and get nowhere. The benchmark pages publish those bands free. The exhibit is the filing-ready version — one expert's rate placed in the band, the qualifying orders and decisions quoted, cited, and linked to the public court document each came from.
Where it gets used
- Justifying your expert's fee — a fee-shifting petition, a cost motion, a 26(b)(4)(E) dispute over a deposition invoice. Attach the exhibit; the argument is the citations.
- Challenging the opposing expert's fee. The document argues either side: the band that supports your expert's rate is the same band that makes the opposing expert's explain itself.
- NVICP fee applications. Our vaccine-program bands come from the special masters' own published fee decisions — the precedent the court already knows. Start at the vaccine-program pages.
How it works for counsel
Buy it exactly as your expert would: their name as it should appear on the exhibit, their specialty and forum, the setting, the rate at issue. It arrives by email in minutes as a PDF. No account, no subscription, and no per-seat anything — if the other side buys one too, good; the record is public.
Coverage is deliberately narrow: we publish a band only where the court record is deep enough to mean something. If the expert's field isn't on the rates pages, email support@swornrates.com before anyone pays and we'll tell you straight — including "not covered yet."
One-time purchase, no subscription. Full refund if it doesn't cover the specialty and setting.