Attorney Expert Witnesses

This highly-qualified expert has nearly 30 years of experience with real estate, insurance, sales and litigation consulting. She earned her BA in economics at the University of Illinois at Champaign and both her MBA and PhD in business and marketing at Florida Atlantic University. She is a certified building contractor and a licensed public adjuster and private investigator. She spent 12 years working as a senior vice president of sales and marketing at Summit Hotel Management Company. She has also formerly served as an assistant professor of business at Florida Atlantic University and Lynn University. This expert currently serves as a real estate developer and contractor and a major real estate and construction company and as a public insurance adjuster at a public adjuster company. In addition, she oversees her own litigation consulting company in Florida, where she provides expertise in insurance, real estate and construction for legal disputes.

This highly-qualified expert specializes in the field of mergers and acquisitions. He earned his BS from Colgate University, his JD from Cornell Law School, and his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He began his career as an attorney practicing mergers and acquisitions law in New York with White & Case. He then went on to begin his investment banking career, where he was involved in over 60 mergers or acquisitions with a combined market value of over $1 billion. He then became president of a nationally recognized middle market mergers & acquisitions firm with 14 offices around the country. After almost seven years growing that company, he left to co-found an M&A firm that was quickly recognized by Crain’s Chicago Business as one of the Top Investment Banking firms in Chicago. He is currently a founder and partner of a national mergers and acquisitions firm and the founder and partner of an advisory that focuses exclusively on companies in the sports, fitness and leisure industry. He is also the co-founder of an exit planning institute, a leading provider of education, training and resources for business advisors committed to the field of exit planning.

This highly-qualified expert has over 35 years of experience in aviation, as well as a practicing attorney. In addition to being a licensed attorney, he has a private pilot's license and a commercial pilot's license. He earned his BAS in biomedical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and his JD from Pennsylvania State University. He has worked for several law firms throughout his career and, during his time with the DOJ as both an assistant United States attorney and a special assistant United States attorney, this expert worked on numerous aviation-related prosecutions involving airlines and the FAA. He has about 5,000 hours of experience in all types of weather and is familiar with the practices, procedures, operations, issues, and challenges facing pilots. For the last 27 years, he has owned, maintained, and operated systems-based cabin-class piston and turbo-prop aircraft, including a 1977 Piper Turbo Arrow III (PA-28-201RT), a 1969 Beechcraft (Raytheon) Duke (BE60), and, most recently, a 1979 Piper Cheyenne I (PAY1). Currently, this expert is the managing partner of the Philadelphia office for a law firm in Pennsylvania.

This qualified expert specializes in disability, autism, neurodiversity, disability policy, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the intersection of autism and disability with the law. She earned her BSBA in psychology, criminology, and law from the University of Florida before earning her JD from the University of Miami. She is a licensed attorney and is active in her field as an author of several publications about disability, autism, and accessibility. This expert formerly served as an associate attorney for Zumpano Patricios and is currently the owner of a consulting firm based in Florida and an adjunct professor at a university in Indiana.

This expert is fully qualified and equipped with knowledge regarding laws on ethics. He has been qualified as an expert previously. He was the former vice chair, and currently a member, of the Professional Ethics Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association. In addition to his legal practices, he also travels throughout the state to various law schools and other legal associations as lecturer on ethics and civility. Furthermore, he has many publications on the topic of morality, ethics, and the law. He has defended hundreds of lawyers, judges and law students facing disciplinary and licensing problems.

This highly qualified expert has extensive experience in litigation matters concerning employment issues. She has testified in at least 5 cases that went to a jury. She received a B.A. in Economics from Boston College summa cum laude and a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School cum laude and was on the Law Review. Her experience as a litigator makes her a specialist in the workplace environment, and she has authored and lectured on various topics including sexual harassment, discrimination, workplace investigations, terminations, ADA, leaves of absence, and other workplace issues. She was also elected as a Fellow to the College of Labor and Employment Attorneys. Certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources, she has consulted for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She currently serves as the President for a human resource consulting firm where she has consulted various businesses and employers in various industries. She provides counsel and advice, conducts internal investigations, and conducts training. She also works with schools and universities in investigating sexual assault charges.

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 highly qualified attorney earned her BS in Business Administration from Georgetown University and her JD from the University of Chicago Law School. She writes about and researches issues related to corporate compliance, drawing on scholarship from the areas of professional ethics, corporate governance, employment law, and corporate social responsibility. She is currently an associate professor of law at a top midwestern law school. Before joining the law school faculty, this expert was a clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and an attorney at Gibson Dunn in Washington, D.C.

This expert is the Lead Land Use Attorney at the Land Use and Sustainable Development Law Clinic and Associate Professor of Law at a the top law school in West Virginia. Before joining his current institution, this expert was an associate professor in urban affairs and planning at Virginia Tech, teaching land use law, environmental law, and real estate. His research and experience focuses on land use law. Prior to his academic endeavors, this expert was in private practice in Virginia. He presently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Agricultural Law Association. He previously served on the Virginia Farmland Protection Task Force and the Virginia Water Policy Technical Advisory Committee.

This board-certified expert has been practicing law for 36 years with 24 of those years including legal malpractice. Recognized by Who's Who in American Law and by Best Lawyers in America, he is a Diplomate and Board Certified in Legal Malpractice by the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys. He currently is an attorney in his own practice, specializing in legal malpractice, in addition to authoring the New York Attorney Malpractice Blog and being an Outside Counsel Columnist for the New York Law Journal.

For over 20 years, this expert has provided accounting and consulting services to businesses ranging from start-up entities to Fortune 100 companies. He specializes in complex litigation services, forensic accounting, and valuation services, and has testified more than 50 times at deposition, trial and alternative dispute venues. He is a CPA, is accredited in business valuation, and is certified in fraud examination and financial forensics. He serves on the economic damages task force of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. This expert is currently the partner of a public accounting firm in the firm's forensic, litigation and valuation services practice..

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 expert has been practicing law for over a decade. She completed her undergraduate studies at Columbia University prior to earning her J.D. from Fordham University, where she graduated cum laude and was a member of the Order of the Coif. She is a past Chair of the New York City Bar Association's Committee on Professional Ethics and the Co-Chair of the Committee on Professional Ethics of the New York Women's Bar Association. She also holds membership in the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. Currently, this expert is a Partner at a major firm, where her practice focuses primarily on legal ethics, professional responsibility, and legal malpractice. She frequently writes and lectures on legal ethics and professional responsibility issues.

This expert has over 25 years of experience, transitioning through the professional disciplines of accounting, tax, law and finance, including public accounting and private law practice, as well as legal and corporate finance executive positions with Oryx Energy (now Anadarko Petroleum), Verizon and GreenTech Petroleum. He leverages on multi-disciplinary skill-sets in overseeing capital structure, determining the optimum mix of debt, equity and internal financing, building complex economic & financial models, performing the budgeting and forecasting function, developing strategies to improve economic efficiencies on capital deployed, managing complex tax issues and litigation and understanding and resolving financial and accounting questions. He is highly experienced at preparing and communicating business plans and strategies and preparing professional finance packages for qualified projects. He has a heavy international background, including mergers and acquisitions, and all types of domestic and cross-border transactions, with countries such as Russia, China, and Kazakhstan, among many others. He has been published in multiple national journals such as Business Week and the Journal of Corporate Taxation. He has also successfully testified as a finance expert witness in major commercial litigation (involving hundreds of millions of dollars) in venues including state and county courts, U.S. Federal District Court and U.S. Tax Court. Given his diverse background and global experience, he offers a unique blend of business acumen and legal knowledge in negotiating complex transactions, working with integrated teams of professionals from tax, accounting, finance, legal, engineering, geology, and operations departments of companies.

This experienced attorney earned his JD from Golden Gate University in San Francisco and his LLM from the University of San Diego. He is admitted to practice law in both California and Nevada. Since 1989, he has maintained a private practice with a focus on legal malpractice, medical malpractice, and personal injury. Additionally, he has many years of experience serving as a Fee Dispute Arbitrator for the State Bar of California and the San Diego County Bar Association.

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's law practice focuses on business transactions, licensing, international business, and franchise law. He helps U.S. and non-U.S. companies establish franchise, distribution and licensing systems. He also acts as general U.S. counsel for foreign companies and he provides outside general counsel services for U.S. companies. For franchisors, he drafts franchise agreements and disclosure documents, obtains state franchise registrations and provides ongoing franchise compliance counseling services. He also counsels businesses on the scope of franchise laws and he represents entrepreneurs in the purchase and sale of franchises and area development rights. In his international work, he represents foreign franchisors in their U.S. business and U.S. franchisors expanding abroad.

Since graduating from Northwestern Law School, this expert has worked as a corporate attorney for over 12 years. He has extensive experience advising as to SEC-registered and exempt transactions, including initial public offerings, common and preferred equity offerings and debt offerings. Additionally, he has worked in large, prestigious law firms such as Sidley Austin and also worked at the U.S. Treasury Department on the Troubled Asset Relief Program. He currently is the founder of a law firm in New York City that specializes in offering corporate and securities law assistance to middle-market businesses and venture capital/private equity funds, frequently advising as to registration, disclosure, compliance and operational issues. The firm also prepares and negotiates a variety of contracts for its clients, from asset purchase agreements to non-disclosure agreements to real estate contracts of sale. He is an adjunct professor at a NJ Law School, where he teaches various corporate law-related courses, has had articles published in the ABA Business Law Today journal, and regularly teaches continuing legal education classes (CLE).