PICKING THE TEAM

Now think about what 'team play' might mean in this litigation. If the quarterback can choose his experts, and they come to rely on him for a significant part of their income, he can hold the purse strings to their livelihood.

Some experts may reply, “that’s not true: we agree to take what the court awards. We are paid based strictly on hours, not on outcomes. That makes us impartial.”

Well, the truth, ladies and gentlemen, is that the impartial court doesn’t hire them.

Who hires them, year in year out, especially according to the team approach? The quarterback hires them.

Who handles their cost hearings, getting them what the court impartially awards, year in, year out? The quarterback does.

Similar comments apply to condemning authorities, where experts may earn a high percentage of their living working for one authority, year in, year out.

In more ways than one, a sense of team work, team reward, and team punishment, can build in these cases, simply based on who makes the team, who doesn’t, how they do, and how they’re paid.

Once the team gets picked, what is its mission? What is its goal?

Is it to get things right? To be accurate? To reflect reality the way it really is? To tell the truth? To play fair? Perhaps.

But what is a team’s real goal? What are they really out there to do? What were they picked for? What stirs the blood of the players? What brings them to their feet? You all know what that is, don’t you?

A team’s main goal, is simple: A team’s main goal is to win.