Frequently, the competing attorneys are inadequately equipped to educate the mediators and arbitrators about the salient facts and the governing legal issues in dispute. Consequently, trial courts increasingly have encouraged attorneys to involve their experts in the ADR process. The author describes the expanding role the expert witnesses may and should have in ADR. Civil litigation has become increasingly complex and civil dockets have become far more congested because of the COVID-19 pandemic. To avoid the expense and delay of litigation in civil cases, trial courts and litigators have turned to alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in the forms of mediation…