Litigation Expert Witnesses

This highly qualified banking expert has 34 years of banking experience. He has held several senior leadership positions in banking including Founder, President, VP/Commercial Lender, EVP/Region Underwriter and is highly knowledgeable about the credit review process and bank regulations. This expert has qualified and testified in a number of civil and criminal cases in both Federal and State Courts. He earned his BS at the University of California and is currently the principal at a financial consultancy.

This expert has over 30-years of experience in law enforcement, primarily with the Drug Enforcement Administration. He has written three criminal justice textbooks. He currently serves as a Criminal Justice consultant and expert witness with extensive experience in litigation support.

This expert has over 40 years of experience in the retail sales, wholesale acquisition and appraisals of Oriental Rugs. He is a former Trustee of the Oriental Rug Retailers of America, was awarded the 2000 National Oriental Rug Retailer of the Year, and has given multiple presentations focusing on Oriental Rugs. He is the Co-Founder and Principal of a private consulting group that focuses on fine rug restoration, USPAP compliant appraisals and litigation support.

This ski safety expert is the Principal Consultant at a major consulting firm, the premiere Ski Safety Consulting Practice in North America specializing ski accident investigation, skiing related litigation consulting, ski area risk management, ski area loss control, operational best practices and generally accepted practices and principles employed by the ski industry. His knowledge, education, training and experience include over 35 years as a risk management, loss control, litigation management, accident investigation, insurance professional and 25 years of ski industry investigations involving thousands of skiing accidents, hundreds of catastrophic ski accidents and strategic resolution of all types of ski industry litigation.

This highly qualified attorney has extensive experience in the field of employment law. He was formerly in practice as a labor and employment attorney, where he frequently handled cases discussing discriminatory violations under Title VII. He regularly represented employers charged with Title VII violations before the human relations commissions, and on occasion represented the charging parties in similar cases. When he stopped practicing labor and employment law, this expert pursued a career in arbitration and mediation, where he has since mediated over 100 cases for the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, many of which involve Title VII violations.

This expert has been practicing law for over 35 years. A nationally recognized insurance coverage counselor, he is well known for his bi-weekly newsletter summarizing important insurance coverage decisions in New York State courts. Listed in Best Lawyers in America the past 6 years in a row, he has also been named as Lawyer of the Year for Insurance Law by the same publication. This expert has been teaching Insurance Law as an Adjunct Professor at a major university's law school for nearly 30 years, and he is a Senior Member specializing in insurance coverage at a large law firm.

This highly qualified expert has been member of the State Bar of California since 1978 and focuses on immigration law. He holds a B.A. in Political Philosophy from the University of Toronto and a J.D. from the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington. Certified as a Specialist in Immigration Law and a former chair of the Immigration Committee of the Bar Association of San Francisco, he deals with various immigration processes including different types of visas. He has been a frequent speaker on immigration law and visa strategies for various organizations including the Northern California Human Resources Association and the British-American Business Council. He currently works as Managing Partner at an immigration law firm in CA.

This highly qualified legal malpractice expert has 25+ years experience as an attorney. This expert earned his BS at the Cornell University and his JD at UCLA. He worked as an associate for several law firms in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, California where he gained valuable experience as a civil litigator, trial attorney, and appellate lawyer. In 1995, this expert was admitted to practice law in Maryland and the District of Columbia; and he relocated his practice to Germantown, Maryland. His innovative litigation tactics and skills garnered attention from the Washington Post, Montgomery Journal, and Montgomery Gazette as well as many local television and radio stations.

This expert has multiple years of experience in litigation services, valuation, mergers and acquisitions, loan workouts and expert witness matters. He was the leader of his own consulting firm where he and his staff performed strategic financial analysis, provided valuation and re-financing advice to major corporations and provided business planning advice to start-up companies. While at the Office of Economic Analysis at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, this expert performed investigative studies examining no load fees charged to retail mutual fund customers, conducted studies analyzing the trading patterns of market making firms for the SEC Division of Enforcement and analyzed the performance of Nasdaq - operated electronic trading systems vs. non-Nasdaq systems. He performed dozens of SFAS 141/142 valuations for several different clients as the Northeast regional director for a national valuation firm. This specializes in commercial damage calculations and business valuation for tax and litigation purposes. He is currently an Accounting Professor at a NJ University. He earned his MBA at Loyola University and PhD in Finance and Accounting at George Washington University.

This highly qualified attorney has 35+ years of experience. He earned his BA from the University of Maryland and JD from The John Marshall Law School of Chicago, Illinois. After graduation he served as an Attorney-Advisor to Esther Peterson, President Carter's Special Assistant for Consumer Affairs where he initiated the interagency litigation project, establishing a consumer presence in Administrative cases across the government. Thereafter, he served as General Counsel to the District of Columbia Office of Consumer Protection where he was instrumental in closing down illegal auto repair shops, forcing thousands of dollars in refunds from Holiday Spa, and establishing the D.C. Lemon Law. After leaving prestigious government positions, he served as one of the first Commissioners of the District of Columbia Lemon Board. This expert's private law practice evolved into a more locally based private legal practice with a focus on medical malpractice, personal, injury, and professional negligence. He has represented a number of consumers in legal malpractice actions against their former lawyers when it appears that the lawyers' violation of the standard of care led to adverse results. This expert has appeared before several state and federal courts. He has also been identified in federal and state courts as an expert in legal procedure.

This expert has over 40 years of claims experience, both as an adjuster and then as an in-house attorney advising adjusters on the proper standard of care in claims handling. He has represented numerous bad faith plaintiffs, and he also established the errors & omissions adjusting practices and auditing procedures for a major insurance company. The expert spent over 6 years as AIG's Western Zone Claims Council and 14 years as Executive Managing Attorney for USAA. He is now retired and acts as an insurance bad faith advisor.

This highly-qualified expert in bankruptcy law has over 15 years of experience in his field, with extensive experience in myriad commercial law matters, including bankruptcy, contract disputes, commercial loans, financial restructuring, fiduciary duties, fraudulent transfer law, corporate responsibility, leveraged buyouts, and securities. He earned his BA in business administration from the University of Miami and his JD from the University of Michigan Law School. He is active in his field with 8 peer-reviewed journal articles published with a focus on corporate bankruptcy. In addition, his recent publications have been recognized by the Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable and have appeared in the University of Connecticut Law Review, the University of Cincinnati Law Review, and the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. Before joining academia, he practiced complex financial restructuring at Latham & Watkins and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in Los Angeles and Baker Botts in Houston. While in private practice, he participated in cases involving Lehman Brothers and Trump Hotel & Casino Resorts. He then transitioned to academia, serving as an associate professor of law at Lewis & Clark Law School. During the 2018-2019 academic year, this expert was a Fulbright Schuman Scholar and served as a visiting professor at the University of Oxford Law School. Currently, he is a professor of law and the co-director of the Center for Business Law & Innovation at a law school in Oregon, as well as the editor-in-chief for a major law publication.

This insurance expert works as an independent claims consultant and expert witness, primarily in the areas of bad faith claims litigation for both plaintiffs and insurance defense. She has over 20 years of experience in the property & casualty industry, handling all levels of claims, including large loss and complex claims, as well as bad faith litigation. The expert holds the CPCU, AIC-M, and SCLA designations and spent much of her career with State Auto Insurance, steadily moving up the ranks to Corporate Claim Manager and a member of the Core Management Team.

This expert has been a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America; the Boston Bar Association, where he was chair of the Aviation Litigation Committee; and the Massachusetts Bar Association. He has taught in trial practice courses at Harvard Law School on many occasions and has published multiple articles in local and national legal journals. This expert has 40+ years of experience. He has appeared in state and federal trial and appellate courts, as well as in administrative tribunals and arbitrations, in Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, California, Colorado and Michigan. Substantively, he has represented plaintiffs and defendants in business litigation (breach of contract, non-competes, trade secrets), professional malpractice, personal injury, real estate and construction, and white collar criminal defense. He has been certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He has lectured on litigation issues in continuing legal education courses. He has been retained numerous times as an expert witness in legal malpractice cases. In one case, for instance, growing out of a medical malpractice case, his testimony was key in obtaining a $7,000,000.00 verdict.

This expert is the President and Chief Compliance Officer of a Registered Investment Advisory firm that he established in the 1980s. His credentials are numerous including being an Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow (LUTCF), and recognized by the Minnesota Supreme Court as a Qualified Neutral under Minnesota Rule 114 of Standard Practice in Mediation and Arbitration. He was formerly a Registered Securities Principal with nationally recognized FINRA Registered Broker Dealers and held numerous securities licenses and registrations. He proudly serves as a FINRA and NFA Dispute Resolution Arbitrator.

This expert was a financial advisor for seven years and a supervisor of financial advisors for twelve years. As a supervisor he served as a sales manager, office manager, regional sales manager, and complex director. He managed over a thousand different advisors in different capacities over his time at Merrill Lynch. He held series 7, 9, 10, 63, 65 and insurance licenses in his capacity as supervisor. During his career he has testified in courtroom, deposition, arbitration, and mediation situations. He has dealt with regulators, attorneys, clients, judges, mediators, and advisors in all of these situations. This expert has a BA in Political Science and an MBA with a marketing concentration, both from Vanderbilt University.

This experienced corporate finance attorney retired after a 44-year career with Bell, Boyd & Lloyd in Chicago, where he practiced in securities, corporate governance, and related areas. For 13 years, he was the Chair of his firm's corporate and securities group, working with many large U.S. Corporations. He recently taught an M&A course at Northwestern University and currently acts as an independent consultant and a FINRA arbitrator.

Prior to her academic career, this expert worked as an attorney for the Internal Revenue Service for nearly 15 years. While with the IRS, she tried 50 cases before the United States Tax Court, dealing with issues including fraud, business deductions, mergers and acquisitions, TEFRA partnerships, corporate expenses, and exempt organizations. She earned her JD at DePaul University and currently teaches law at Prestigious University. This expert was a Fulbright Professor of Law for the 2007-2008 academic year in Beijing, China and a Fulbright Distinguished Chair Professor of Law in Shanghai, China for the 2014-2015 academic year.

This highly experienced train operations and investigations expert has nearly 30 years of experience in his field. He has experience supervising locomotive engineers, handling efficiency checks, analyzing event recorders, and overseeing investigations. He earned his diploma certification in business management studies at Loyalist College and has a locomotive engineer certification from the Canadian National Railways Training Center. Previously, he has held roles as an engine service officer and a supervisor of locomotive engineers at Canadian National Railways. Additionally, this expert has worked as the director and locomotive trainer specialist at E Rail Training and as a technical training manager at Saudi Railway Polytechnic Project. Currently, he runs his own locomotive engineering consulting business.

This well credentialed expert has more than three decades of experience in finance, economics, and statistics, with particular expertise in economic damages assessments, employment litigation, securities and business valuations. He earned his BS in Math and Economics from the University of Oregon, his MBA in Finance from University of California, Los Angeles, and his PhD in Financial Economics from University of California, Los Angeles. He also is a Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute. He is a past member of numerous national consulting practices, all of which focused on forensic economic matters. In addition, he was a lecturer in Finance at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, San Diego, as well as an Assistant Professor at University of California, Irvine. The expert has authored numerous articles and reports in his field. He is currently a Partner at an Economic and Accounting Consulting Firm in California.