Expert Witness Startup School Companion: A How-To Guide to Launch and Grow Your Expert Witness Business

You’ve spent years building your clinical expertise. Now it’s time to learn how to use it in a new way. Whether you are: considering expert witness work for the first time, struggling to get started, or looking to grow and refine your existing expert witness business, Expert Witness Startup School Companion provides a practical, structured roadmap to help physicians and other clinicians move from idea… to action. Written by physician entrepreneur, nationally retained expert witness, educator, and commercial astronaut Dr. Gretchen Green, this book expands upon the concepts taught in Expert Witness Startup School and helps readers apply them in real-world expert witness practice. Although primarily intended for physicians, other clinicians in medicine, dentistry, and other specialties can also benefit. Dr. Green has been retained in over 200 medicolegal cases and has coached physicians across multiple specialties in building trusted, impactful expert witness businesses. In 2025, she became the first woman physician commercial astronaut aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard mission, a journey shaped by decades of persistence, preparation, and willingness to pursue ambitious goals despite challenges. In 2020, Dr. Green founded The Expert Resource to help clinicians launch and build expert witness businesses. She teaches from over a decade of experience as an expert witness and teacher of hundreds of students who want to put clinical skills to work in a new way, to change their lives for the better, and ultimately improve patient care. Inside this book, you’ll learn how to: Take your first expert witness case with confidence Build efficient systems and workflows Avoid common mistakes and unnecessary trial-and-error Communicate effectively with attorneys Develop professional credibility and repeat attorney relationships Organize timelines, opinions, and case materials Navigate uncertainty and high-pressure situations Build an expert witness business that aligns with your goals and lifestyle This book also includes: Real student questions from Expert Witness Startup School Mindset and confidence-building guidance Practical implementation strategies Lessons learned from years of real-world expert witness work For many physicians, expert witness work becomes more than a side gig. It becomes: greater flexibility, additional income, professional autonomy, leadership, and a pathway to a more intentional career. Some physicians have gone on to build 5- and 6-figure expert witness businesses using these principles. You do not need to have everything figured out to begin. You only need to take the next step. Learn more at: https://www.theexpertresource.com/