Defamation Expert Witnesses

This expert is the author of two successful books on the topics of slander and libel and has written dozens of scholarly papers in the study of defamation over the past 12+ years. He has counseled 500+ victims of defamation, addressing both their emotional distress and the nuances of defamation law. His clients as a writer and consultant have included Stanford University, Xerox, and McKesson Health. He previously served as a lecturer at UCLA and a columnist, whose works appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Toronto Globe, and the Times of London.

This ivy league educated linguistics expert specialists in forensic semantics and forensic stylistics. He has had success in both academia and the professional world as an Assistant Professor of English at Wayne State University and as a speechwriter/director of communications for large corporations such as GM and Kraft Foods. He has published a number of books and articles in the communications and linguistics space.

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.

This expert has extensive experience in linguistic applications and forensic linguistics. He earned his MS in English linguistics, psychology, and educational science and his PhD in English linguistics from the University of Hamburg. He has previously served as an associate professor of English at the University of Southern Denmark and as a visiting researcher in the development and comparative psychology department at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. He currently serves as a professor of linguistics at a university in California and as the chair of English linguistics at a university in Germany.