Commercial Real Estate Expert Witnesses in Connecticut

This asset lending, commercial contracts, and finance attorney currently works for a leading global law firm in New York. He earned his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 1982 and has been a financial attorney in New York for the past 30+ years. The expert spent over 22 years with Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP, where he served as a Partner. He was also the Managing Partner of the New York office at SNR Denton for 2+ years. He has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and was a member of the New York City Bar Association's Committee on Housing and Urban Development. He currently represents financial institutions, funds, and similar entities in purchases and loan portfolio structuring and structured and conventional financing and warehousing, and in a wide variety of mortgage market transactions, and he has (entirely successfully) acted as an expert witness in a malpractice action against a major national law firm.

This expert is a building and construction professional with over 30 years of hands-on experience in the construction and building inspection industries. He has testified in numerous trials and depositions for both plaintiff and defense attorneys. He has been qualified as an expert in construction and personal injury cases in courtrooms from New York City to Connecticut to Boston and has authored and presented numerous Continuing Legal Education courses, coast to coast. This expert has been specifically trained in residential and commercial building codes, construction site safety, residential and commercial building envelopes, slip, trip and fall accidents and building inspections. His decades of practical experience provides him with the unique ability to translate written code words into three-dimensional, real world interpretations making him extremely valuable as a forensic expert. Since the late 1970’s, This expert has been involved in the residential and commercial construction and building inspection industries. He also has extensive experience in prefabricated buildings and ran separate building manufacturing, roofing and drywall companies as subsidiaries of his construction company. Using the partnership and knowledge of his father, combined with his natural instincts and abilities as a building professional, he has worked side by side with his dad in the family building inspection and construction businesses since the late 1970’s. As this expert says, “you cannot learn in college what you can learn from your father”. With that as his mantra, he is a firm believer that there is no better educational resource than hands-on experience. In 2014 this expert was hired as the lead expert by one of New York City’s most prominent personal injury law firms to act as the plaintiff’s safety expert in a construction accident case that returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $62 million, the highest amount ever awarded to a single plaintiff in the history of Queens, New York.