What do attorneys actually find when they run a background check on an expert witness — and what do experts find when they run one on themselves? In this episode, Dr. Brian Woodruff talks with Ashish Arun, founder and CEO of Exlytem and principal owner of Expert Witness Profiler, which has spent over a decade digging through court records to compile background intelligence on testifying experts.
Ashish walks through how a profiler report comes together — pulling every court document tied to an expert’s name, from rulings to briefs to docket entries — and shares some of the more surprising things experts have found about their own records, including undisclosed case designations and forgotten Daubert challenges. He makes the case that a denied Daubert challenge is actually a credibility asset worth publicizing, and offers concrete advice for experts who have been excluded: get the full record, diagnose the real cause, and be ready to explain it.
The conversation also covers how expert marketing has evolved — LinkedIn and directories are no longer taboo, as long as the language stays defensible — and closes with a look at how courts are starting to treat an expert’s AI prompts as discoverable methodology, not privileged work product. Ashish previews Exlytem’s upcoming Expert Atlas platform, built to catch inconsistencies like conflicting CV dates automatically.
Connect with Ashish at exlitem.com or ashish@exlitem.com.
To learn more about Brian Woodruff, go to his personal website, Child Neurology Expert.
