Defense Expert Witnesses in Utah

This expert has nearly 20 years of legal and trust administration experience. She gained her JD from Willamette College of Law and is licensed to practice in Wyoming. She served as an attorney at James H. Jordan PC, an attorney for Austin Law Office, and an assistant vice president and trust administrator in the investment management and trust division at ANB Bank.Currently she is an attorney focusing on probate and estate administration issues.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 30 years of experience in the legal sector. He received his AB in economics from UC Berkeley before earning his JD from Loyola Marymount University. This expert is also an accredited investment fiduciary. He specializes in insurance recovery and bad faith litigation, as well as ethics and compliance in the financial services profession. He is active in his field, having authored numerous periodicals and spoken at several conferences throughout his career. He has formerly served as a law clerk for the Honorable John R. Padova, a shareholder for Anderson Kill & Olick, and director and senior corporate counsel for Dish Network. He has also served as the standards and legal manager, as well as standards and legal counsel, for Investments & Wealth Institute. Currently, this expert serves as general counsel for a nonprofit professional investment association and credentialing organization based in Colorado.

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 highly experienced attorney and academic currently serves as a named Professor of Law and Special Counsel to the President at a large state university in Nevada. Previously, she was the Dean and a Professor of Law at the University of Houston, as well as the Dean and a Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska. The expert earned her J.D. from Stanford Law School and began her career in the Bankruptcy and Workouts Group with Morrison & Foerster before entering academia as an Assistant/Associate Professor at The Ohio State University College of Law. The expert specializes in professional ethics, corporate governance, and bankruptcy. She has published numerous works and is a frequent speaker, including a presentation delivered at the National Association of Estate Planner's 52nd Annual Conference on ethical behavior. In addition to her role as a Professor, she remains active as an expert witness and consultant.