Contracts Expert Witnesses in Massachusetts

This highly qualified expert has extensive background in construction management, design architecture, and forensic consulting. He earned his B.S. in Architectural Technology from the New York Institute of Technology; he is a New York State Registered Architect, a Board Certified Construction Manager and CCM Subject Area Expert with the Construction Management Association of America (CMCI). The expert works as the Managing Architect for a New York City school construction organization. He has served has a Construction Manager for projects involving Touro College facilities, Fulton Street Transit Center, the World Trade Center, Crain's Publishing Headquarters, and Watson Wyatt Worldwide among many others. He presently has a forensic consulting practice where he specializes in claims mitigation, analysis, productivity analysis, earned value analysis, contract dispute resolution, delay claim impact analysis, coupled with in-depth knowledge of cost control practices during all phases of project delivery. He is also now a PT Adjunct Professor in Construction Management and Real Estate at a large New York College.

This expert is currently a wood scientist and has been working in the wood industry for almost 20 years. He earned a BS in Construction Management & Wood Products Engineering from SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry and a Masters Degree in Forest Products from Oregon State University. This expert focuses primarily in investigations of problems associated with wood and wood-based products, evaluations of wood products used in construction, and management of testing laboratories.

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.

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 highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in the field of academic medical center construction management and design development. His work has involved determining space analytics, programming space for optimal occupant outcomes in research and academics, program development, and commissioning of laboratory space. He received his BA from Queens College before earning his MA in environmental policy and engineering and MBA in marketing from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. This expert holds multiple certifications, including OSHA 10 construction and chemical safety training, CDC biohazard safety training, hazardous waste management, and regulated medical waste management. He is active in research in his field, having authored several papers and presented at various conferences throughout his career. He has formerly served as an emergency medical technician with the NYC Emergency Medical Services, a field compliance investigator with the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, the interim vice dean for research at the State University of New York at Stony Brook's School of Medicine, and the interim departmental administrator for the neurology department at the Stony Brook University Medical Center. Currently, this expert serves as the associate dean for research, facilities, and operations at a medical school in New York.