Attorneys Faulted for Scarcity of Female Expert Witnesses

Judge Shira Scheindlin presided over hundreds of cases during her 22 years on the federal bench, and observed an uncountable number of expert witnesses.

Yet Scheindlin, who retired from the Southern District of New York in 2016, rarely saw female trial experts.

“I recall an epidemiologist in a very big case. I also think I may have seen a psychologist in one or two cases,” she told Bloomberg BNA.

“But most of the doctors (orthopedists or neurologists) who testified to injuries in personal injury cases were men. And most scientists were men. Surely all the economists I saw were men,” ...