Expert Testimony for Legal Fee and Insurance Claims Disputes
Jim Schratz provides expert witness services in matters involving the reasonableness of attorney fees, legal billing practices, insurance bad faith, and claims handling.
His opinions are grounded in decades of experience as an attorney, claims professional, insurance executive, legal fee auditor, and consultant. That background allows him to connect billing records, claim files, case history, and litigation strategy to the practical standards courts and counsel need to evaluate.
Areas of Expert Testimony
- Attorney fee disputes, fee petitions, and legal billing reasonableness.
- Legal fee audits and challenges to billing practices in complex litigation.
- Insurance bad faith allegations and insurer claim handling conduct.
- Claim file review, litigation management, independent counsel issues, and related insurance practices.
- Declaration, deposition, arbitration, hearing, and trial testimony support.
A Record-Driven Approach
Each engagement begins with the documents that matter: invoices, pleadings, claim files, correspondence, case schedules, staffing records, and other available materials. Jim evaluates what work was performed, why it was performed, whether the billing or claims conduct was reasonable, and how the facts fit the applicable standard.
The result is an opinion counsel can use in settlement evaluation, mediation, fee hearings, motion practice, deposition, or trial without expanding the site into a larger content library.
For matters involving attorney fees, disputed legal invoices, insurance bad faith, or claims handling, contact Jim Schratz & Associates to discuss whether an expert witness engagement is appropriate.