Human Resources Expert Witnesses in Indiana

This Professor of Management and Human Resources earned his doctorate in sociology from Columbia University with a dissertation on the Confucian Ethic and the Spirit of Bureaucracy. In addition to his storied academic career, which has allowed him to earn a distinguished honorary professorship from Sun Yat-sen University and to serve as a keynote speaker at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's China Global Conference, he has considerable experience advising companies such as Citigroup, Volvo, Netafim, Strauss-Elite, and Wal-Mart on how to enter the Chinese market. He is widely published in the fields of international business management and East Asian studies and is recognized as having written the 'Decade's Best Paper' in the Journal of International Business Studies. He has made multiple appearances before the US Congress' US-China Economic and Security Review Commission and has been cited by such notable periodicals as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, Forbes, and Xinhua.

This expert is a shareholder with a major law firm. He focuses his practice on complex labor issues, with a special focus on union matters, contract negotiations, unfair labor practice litigation, National Labor Relations Board practice, organizing attempts by unions, mass picketing and violence, secondary boycotts and pressure, and Federal and State OSHA matters. He is a member of the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers and annually has been selected as one of the Top 100 Labor Lawyers in the U.S. by the Labor Relations Institute. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America, Michigan Super Lawyers, DBusiness magazine's Top Lawyers in Metro Detroit, The American Lawyer Top Lawyers, Crain's Detroit Business Best Lawyers and The American Registry's Top Lawyers in Michigan. He is a member of the National Labor Relations Board's Practice and Procedure Committee for Region 7 (Michigan). Among his numerous industry and professional associations, he is president of a construction management association and serves on the boards of directors for the Michigan Association of Home Builders and Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association. He earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Rochester in 1971 and a law degree from Syracuse University College of Law in 1974.

Expert knowledge in employee benefits and executive compensation working with large publicly held corporations. Extensive experience in benefit due diligence of merger and acquisition transactions and benefit implications of bankruptcies and workouts. Counsels large pension plans and investment managers in investments by ERISA plans and has extensive experience in funded welfare benefit plans and all areas of executive compensation. In working with clients, delivers a keen business sense with strategic focus that enhances the bottom line. Credentials enhanced by appointment to ERISA Advisory Council and election as a Fellow to the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. Rated AV in Martindale.

This well-credentialed expert has several decades of experience in the executive compensation & executive recruiting industries. He began his career in 1989 and has since completed more than 200 engagements focused on executive recruiting and executive compensation. He is a graduate of Cornell University's Advanced Program in Executive Search & Leadership Consulting & The Wharton School's Executive Compensation: Strategies and Frameworks program. Currently, this expert is the President/CEO of a firm focused on executive recruiting and executive compensation within more than 40 industries, including aerospace, agriculture, automotive, banking, construction, defense, electronics, energy, food, healthcare, industrial machinery & equipment, insurance, maritime, plastics, private equity, transportation, technology and utilities.

This expert has over 10 years of experience in the field of human resources. She earned her BA and MA from Lewis University, followed by her DBA in strategy and innovation from Capella University. She is certified in human resources development and aging services risk management and is an active member of the Society for Human Resource Management. This expert previously served as the director of human resources at Our Lady of Angels Retirement Home and Beacon Hill Lifespace Community. She was also the director of human resources at Joliet Area Community Hospice, where she oversees the policies and procedures for employees. Currently, she serves as the senior director of people services at a senior living center in Illinois.

This expert is an empirical economist and law professor with testifying experience. His research interests revolve around employment law; the dynamics of civil litigation, particularly settlement; criminal law; and sentencing law and reform. He earned his JD, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was the treasurer and an editor of the Harvard Law Review; he went on to earn a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.