Lead Safe Mama, LLC Rates for Consulting With Law Firms & Businesses

Updated: July 29, 2023 — Saturday
Rates Subject to Change

Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s owner Tamara Elise Rubin is often approached with requests about advising law firms and businesses.

For Legal Firms

While serving as an expert witness is possible, given her nearly-two-decades of experience with Lead poisoning, Lead poisoning prevention, heavy metal exposure, and consumer goods safety, she most frequently serves in a consulting capacity for legal firms working on cases or firms in the process of evaluating the merits of cases they are considering taking on.
She has experience helping evaluate potential issues with case argumentation (including cases with scientific or medical considerations), and often works to connect law firms with appropriate/qualified expert witnesses in various related fields (scientists, medical experts, construction experts, policy experts, etc.).
She also helps guide legal teams to the appropriate science/research supporting their cases.
Relevant Experience: She has independently drafted legislation and testified in government hearings several times — both locally (in Oregon) and nationally (related to proposed or enacted legislative policies for childhood Lead poisoning prevention).

Lead (& Other Toxicants) in Consumer Goods

Tamara knows more about the complex, multifaceted subject of health impacts from exposure to Lead and other metallic toxicants (e.g. Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic, and Antimony) in consumer goods than any other expert on the subject — resulting from a combination of 14+ years of experience testing countless (literally tens of thousands) consumer goods using XRF technology, as well as her active relationships with the world’s top experts in a variety of the many relevant sub-specialty fields. Consequently, Tamara receives a significant number of inquiries from law firms working on Prop 65 compliance cases (and similar cases).

Tamara has also worked with both manufacturers and retailers / resellers to identify problematic products and product components (including foods / food ingredients) – specifically related to heavy metals concerns (with a focus on Lead, Cadmium, Mercury and Arsenic). Whenever possible she loves working with companies BEFORE they launch new products / product lines (to help them avoid issues before they happen).

“Mysterious” Sources of Toxicant Exposure

Tamara is often invited to consult with healthcare providers (and public health departments) looking to pinpoint “mysterious” sources of exposure for their patients. Notably, through her direct one-on-one consulting experience working with families of Lead-poisoned children and adults across the United States, Tamara has extensive experience successfully identifying “hidden” sources of Lead-poisoning (or poisoning from other metals) when others (doctors, health inspectors, etc.) have been unable to find the source of a child’s poisoning or persistent elevated Blood Lead Level.

Some Highlights:

2011 & 2014: Tamara received two awards from a consortium of public agencies (HUD, EPA, CDC, USDA, USDoE & FDA) for her advocacy work helping families protect their children from Lead-exposure.
February 2016: Tamara collaborated on an outreach event with Bernie Sanders in Flint, Michigan (see photo below).
April 2016: Tamara was the opening presenter for a speaking engagement by Erin Brockovich in Portland, Oregon (photo above).
2022: Tamara was an invited guest speaker at Stanford University.
March 2023: Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports magazine. Here’s a link to the Consumer Reports article: https://www.consumerreports.org/toxic-chemicals-substances/the-power-of-citizen-science-a1450367401/.
July 2023: The work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC was responsible for a recall of 346,000 Lead-contaminated children’s cups.

For Some Additional Context

Here’s our about page: https://tamararubin.com/about/.
Here’s our press page: https://tamararubin.com/press/.
Here’s a link to the documentary film on childhood Lead poisoning that Tamara Rubin directed and produced: https://tamararubin.com/2023/01/a-link-to-my-film/.

Rates for Working With Legal Firms

Zoom Consultations: $750/hour (one hour minimum). Many legal firms / businesses simply require one or two hours of Tamara’s time to provide strategic and/or tactical insight into the merits of a case or concerns with a product in development (and to better understand the relevant latest scientific developments and trends of thought/ consensus perspectives, as well as – for legal cases – precedents supporting or constraining various angles of argumentation).
Day Rate: $3,000. Tamara’s day-rate covers up to four hours of in-person or remote work on a case (including materials review). She typically has a maximum of four hours in a day for consulting. If a longer day needs to be negotiated, additional charges will apply.
- For most locations, the in-person day-rate is $3,000/day. Locations (like New York City) that carry inherent anticipated additional daily travel costs (parking, tolls, significantly higher daily travel costs for meals and lodging, etc.) are $3,500 a day for in-person consulting.
Travel Costs: For in-person work, Tamara’s travel fee for corporate or legal work is $2,000 per day. This flat fee covers both her travel time and directly-related travel costs to come to your location (flights, ground transportation, hotel, etc.) Tamara is based in Portland, Oregon. Two days of travel costs are required for most East Coast destinations. (One day of travel costs is possible for most West Coast destinations with direct flights to and from Portland, Oregon.)