Companion to the book
Q. Show me your prompts. A. Certainly. Here is the entire record.
The material that moves
The book states the method, and the method does not change. This site carries everything that does — the decided cases and where they now stand, the working papers in editable form, and corrections to the printed volume.
What is here
Four sections, each of which the book points to by name.
Why the book omits this
A book that names cases is a book that expires
Decisions get appealed, distinguished, vacated, and superseded. Platform policies change without notice. The book was written to be correct in five years, which meant leaving out everything that would not be — and putting it here instead, where it can carry a date.
What the book fixes
The eight clauses, the task taxonomy, the instrument-and-source distinction, the verification pass, the log, and the deposition answer. None of that depends on which system you use or on what any tribunal decided last quarter.
What the site carries
Anything with a date attached to it. Matters and their posture. Corrections. Revisions to the working papers. Notes when something in the printed volume has been overtaken.
Where the line sits
If a sentence would need rewriting in eighteen months, it is not in the book. That rule cost the book some vividness and bought it a shelf life, which is the trade the author would make again.
The eight clauses
The Standard at a glance
Each clause states one obligation in one sentence. The full text, the definition of system, and the governing test are on the Standard page, where they are licensed for verbatim adoption.
The governing test
An engagement satisfies this standard when a competent examiner in the same field, working only from the primary sources, with no access to any artificial intelligence system, could reproduce the expert's result.
Who this is for
Three audiences, and the site is organized so that each reaches its own material in one step from here.
If you are the expert
Start with the Standard, then the log
Read the eight clauses, decide whether you can live under them, and put the attribution line in your engagement letter. Then open the log template and start it on the next matter you take — not the next matter in which you use a system, the next matter, because a log that begins when you first think you need one begins too late.
If you retain or examine experts
Start with the question sets
Appendix D runs in both directions: what to ask your own expert before the report is served, and what to ask the other side's expert once it has been. The four trap questions are the ones that sound damaging and are not, and knowing which is which saves an hour of transcript and a needless motion.
If you are neither, yet
Start with the case record
The pattern in the decided matters is not the one the commentary reports. Sanctions have fallen on the lawyers who signed filings, essentially never on the experts. Read the matters themselves, in full, and see what was actually done in each.
What this site will not do
It does not characterize a holding. Entries in the case record state what a professional did and what a tribunal did, with the date the entry was last checked against the primary document, and they stop there. Where the book argues about what a decision means, it does so in the book, under an argument the reader can see and disagree with.
It gives no legal advice, and nothing on it substitutes for counsel in your own matter. It ranks no systems, reviews no products, and will never tell you which model to use, because that question is both the least durable one in the field and the one that matters least to whether your work survives cross-examination.
It tracks no general feed of developments. A great deal is published in this area every week, most of it summarizing the same handful of orders, and a reference that repeated all of it would be noise with a date stamp. What appears here is what the book points to by name: the Standard in adoptable form, the case identifications, the working papers, and the errata. If you are deciding where to begin, adopting the Standard is the step that changes your position soonest, because it is stated at retention rather than argued afterward.
The full editorial rules the site is written under, and who maintains it, are set out on the about page.