Russ Rosenzweig is the CEO and Co-founder of Round Table Group,  the leading customized expert search and referral service since Russ pioneered the industry in 1993. Outside of his work at Round Table Group, Russ is an active speaker, author, educator, and philanthropist. In addition to this, Russ enjoys cycling, mountain biking, bodybuilding, hiking, skiing, and performing in small ensembles on his clarinet. 

Kelley Baione is the Director of Expert Witness Services at Round Table Group. After practicing law for almost a decade, Kelley began her career in expert witness sourcing as a Senior Expert Witness Recruiter for Round Table Group before transitioning to Director. When she isn’t hard at work, Kelley enjoys practicing martial arts—she is a first-degree black belt in both Korean Karate and Japanese Jujutsu—and experimenting with pour paint.

In this episode…

Finding the perfect expert witness for your case is difficult enough—so how in the world do you find an expert on a never-before-seen virus during a global pandemic? 

When COVID-19 hit in the beginning of 2020, Kelley Baione, the Director of Expert Witness Services at Round Table Group, knew right away that it was time to construct a panel of expert witnesses about the virus. As she says, finding and creating this panel wasn’t easy—COVID-19 was a novel coronavirus, so COVID-19 experts were virtually non-existent. However, with plenty of hard work, expertise, and an extensive database to rely on, Round Table Group created a top-notch panel of COVID-19 experts in no time.

In this episode of the Engaging Experts Podcast, Russ Rosenzweig and Kelley Baione sit down with Rise25 Co-founder John Corcoran to discuss how Round Table Group constructed a COVID-19 expert witness panel in 2020. Listen in as Russ and Kelley talk about how Round Table Group identifies and utilizes expert witnesses, the various ways that COVID-19 has impacted the company’s search process, and more. Stay tuned!