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Sep 23, 2026
Tyson FranklinHOST
Even if you have notes in your hand to keep yourself on track, you just do that.
Tyson FranklinHOST
Now, when you spoke at the Foot and Ankle Show, you were invited to speak as like an expert witness then talking about forensic podiatry.
Chelsea TritschlerGUEST
That's right, yeah.
Tyson FranklinHOST
Before you get into that in real depth, how did that happen from your private practice?
Chelsea TritschlerGUEST
It's way too far from where I live.
Chelsea TritschlerGUEST
So I started looking at what else could I do to make this master's degree useful to me.
Chelsea TritschlerGUEST
I looked at being an expert witness in podiatry.
Chelsea TritschlerGUEST
So it's more from a civil point of view, given a podiatry opinion on cases where someone might be suing the NHS, that kind of thing.
Alan AldaHOST
Dame Sue Black is Britain's best-known forensic anthropologist.
Alan AldaHOST
In a new book, she tells stories of her many years as an expert witness in the courtroom, stories where forensic evidence has led not only to successful prosecutions, but also, in too many cases, to people being punished for crimes they didn't commit.
Alan AldaHOST
You know, it seems to me that probably nowhere is good communication more needed than in a situation where somebody's life is at stake, like in a murder trial.
Alan AldaHOST
And the presence of an expert witness seems to be really important.
Alan AldaHOST
And you're an eminent forensic anthropologist.
Alan AldaHOST
Two words that I don't often see going together.
Sue BlackGUEST
And that means we have two sides.
Sue BlackGUEST
We have a prosecution side and we have a defence side.
Will WatkissGUEST
Finally, for EWI purposes, it helps us understand what proportion of the workforce that EWI represents and helps with our advocacy work.
Simon Berney-EdwardsHOST
We'll come back to this later in the episode, but I can tell you that the results of this project have been extremely fascinating and helpful to help the EWI to shape the future of support for the expert witness community.
Simon Berney-EdwardsHOST
Will, can you provide a bit of an overview about how the project came about?
Will WatkissGUEST
Certainly.
Will WatkissGUEST
One of the first questions I remember asking when I joined EWI in June 2025 is how many expert witnesses are there in the UK? Uh, the answer was there isn't a definitive answer.
Will WatkissGUEST
So I did some digging and frankly, even Google and chat GPT didn't know.
Will WatkissGUEST
Um, and as a membership professional with a focus on growing the membership and understanding the market size, I needed to know an estimate.
Will JacksonGUEST
We've been going for about almost 20 years now.
Brian WoodruffHOST
Welcome back to another episode of the Expert Witness Playbook.
Brian WoodruffHOST
I'm your host, Dr. Brian Woodruff.
Brian WoodruffHOST
Today's guest is Elizabeth McKinney, a forensic speech and language pathologist and the owner of Forensic SLP Consulting Services.
Brian WoodruffHOST
She has been retained in more than 30 plaintiff and defense matters involving issues such as aspiration, choking, swallowing injuries, neurologic injury, and developmental disorders.
Brian WoodruffHOST
And I think today's conversation is going to be particularly interesting because when most people hear speech and language pathologists, they think about speech and communications issues.
Brian WoodruffHOST
They probably don't immediately think about swallowing aspiration, choking deaths, or expert witness testimony.
Brian WoodruffHOST
We're going to talk to Liz about her journey from clinical practice into forensic work, what an SLP can bring to a legal case, how she evaluates these cases, and some of the lessons she has learned building an expert witness practice.
Brian WoodruffHOST
Liz, welcome to the Expert Witness Playbook.
Pat IyerHOST
So some of these paperback books were Amazon bestselling books and published through KDP.
Pat IyerHOST
I entered legal nurse consulting in 1987, and primarily because I discovered there was this role called being an expert witness.
Pat IyerHOST
Attorneys were just in the 1980s beginning to realize that if a nurse was being sued, they should have a nursing expert.
Pat IyerHOST
Up until that point, physicians were considered to be fully equipped and knowledgeable enough about nursing to speak about the nursing standard of care.
Pat IyerHOST
There was a seminal case that was an illinois case in which the defense argued that the plaintiff should not be able to use a physician in that case that the appropriate expert was a nurse and it was a big battle with people writing briefs about it and the court concluded if you have a nursing malpractice case you need a nursing expert So I entered the field of being an expert witness in 1987, and immediately attorneys began giving me cases.
Pat IyerHOST
It helped a great deal that I could say that I wrote a book on nursing process and nursing diagnosis.
Pat IyerHOST
And then a few years after I started reviewing cases as an expert, I got a request to review an emergency department case.
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Pat IyerHOST
The visibility comes through posts on social media, through articles that are published in nursing journals, through chapters in books, through blog posts that you put on your website.