I was tangentially involved in a major healthcare medical error lawsuit.
The physicians being called as expert witnesses had fee schedules that were in the range of $2,000 an hour for testimony, $1,200 an hour for document review.
Without googling I’m betting that political science professors make less money than physicians, especially if those experts were surgeons. If your expert testimony required billionaire expert witnesses I’d bet their hour fees would be substantially more than a surgeons.
The physicians being called as expert witnesses had fee schedules that were in the range of $2,000 an hour for testimony, $1,200 an hour for document review.