EE&MC supports clients, courts and arbitration tribunals in all phases of a hearing, from preparing content and structured presentations to questioning by judges or arbitrators. In many of our mandates, the personal appearance of EE&MC experts in court is an essential part of the assessment process. This is because the oral explanation of economic analyses requires a precise combination of technical depth, didactic clarity and strategic preparation. These hearings and questioning sessions reveal the differences.
To prepare for such hearings, EE&MC regularly organises tailor-made client workshops in which lines of economic argumentation, presentation strategies and evidence are developed and refined together with the lawyers conducting the proceedings. This preparation includes moot court training with realistic question scenarios as well as the creation of case-specific ‘speaking notes’ and speech guidelines to ensure consistent presentation in terms of both content and rhetoric.
This structured and practical preparation ensures that each hearing is conducted in a methodically confident, argumentatively precise and communicatively convincing manner. The EE&MC experts translate complex empirical models and economic conclusions into linguistically precise, logically structured and legally compatible presentations. The argumentation is designed in such a way that it withstands scientific scrutiny and remains comprehensible to non-economic decision-makers.
In the hearing itself, EE&MC experts combine analytical discipline with years of experience. They explain models, results and conclusions with the necessary clarity and precision, thus helping to ensure that economic evidence becomes a sound basis for judicial decision-making.
Courts and litigants appreciate the professional continuity and reliability that EE&MC offers as a second-generation owner-managed company. This personnel and intellectual consistency is particularly valuable in long-running proceedings, which often extend over several instances and many years. It enables complex economic relationships to be consistently maintained even after many years and allows the detailed knowledge that has grown over time to be applied in a targeted manner. It is not uncommon for the strength of an expert opinion to lie precisely in these finely nuanced insights, the knowledge ‘between the lines’ that can only be developed through long-term monitoring and intensive examination of economic processes.