Social Media Expert Witnesses

This expert has been working with SEO data for several years, working at various companies to improve their SEO revenue. He has audited over 8,000 websites from Panda to Penguin, worked with Google Analytics on each webpage, and set strategic plans to lead to top SEO revenue.

This former dean of journalism has spend 40+ years in the academic study of mass communication. He earned his BA in Political Science and English from Boston College, thereafter earning an MA and PhD from the University of Iowa, where he began his subsequent career as an academician. He is the author of numerous scholarly publications in the field of journalism, including two acclaimed books regarding libel.

This expert is the founding principal of an intellectual property consulting firm specializing in the management, valuation, and monetization of IP. He is a certified licensing professional (CLP) with over a decade of expertise in intellectual property valuation, profit apportionment and expert witness damages testimony. Additionally, he specializes in analyses for copyright and trademark infringement, publicity rights, social media and Internet infringement, defamation, marketing strategy analyses and royalty rate determinations. He also provides valuations and monetization strategies for trademarks, publicity rights, domain names, Internet and social media assets, brand assets and copyrights for financial reporting, bankruptcy and transactional due diligence. He is a member of the International Trademark Association, the Licensing Industry Merchandisers' Association, and the Section of the Intellectual Property Law of the American Bar Association.

This highly qualified expert has over twenty years of experience in investigations. He earned his BS in business from California Coast University and is a certified social media investigations expert by the McAfee Institute. This expert is also a certified and licensed private investigator by the California Association of Licensed Investigators and The State of California, respectively. He is a member of the California Association of Licensed Investigators, the National Council of Investigative and Security Specialists, and the national Association of Investigative Specialists. Formerly, he served as a corporate security investigator at Goodwill Industries of Orange County, Inc. and as a senior investigator and case manager for RJN Investigations, Inc. He currently is the president of a full-service private investigations firm in California.

This expert has extensive experience in the security industry, with his work focusing on off-duty police survival, law enforcement, field drug identification kits, investigations, social media intelligence, executive protection, and training standards. He earned his BS in strategic security and protection management from National American University and currently holds several certifications, including professional crime investigator, social media intelligence expert, and body language specialist. He currently holds one patent for a firearm part. He has formerly served as an infantryman in the US Army, a weapons handler for Lockheed Martin, a protective security specialist for International Development Solutions, an executive protection specialist for K17 Security, a police corporal for the United States Department of Defense, and a mobile security operator for GardaWorld Federal Services. Currently, this expert is the owner of a security consultancy in Virginia.