Litigation Expert Witnesses in New York

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'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).

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.

He has held this chair since 1984, served briefly as Deputy Dean of the Law School, and took emeritus status in 2009. His major fields of teaching and research are law and public policy; tort law; immigration, citizenship, and refugee law; groups, diversity, and law; and administrative law. This expert has taught at an Ivy League affiliated law school for more than 30 years; his fields of specialization include tort law, immigration, citizenship, and refugee law. He has written on a broad range of other public policy topics, including 5+ books. His other writing consists of more than 200 articles that have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly, professional, and popular journals. He is a contributing editor to The American Lawyer, has served as an arbitrator, expert witness, and consultant in a variety of disputes, and has testified in dozens of congressional hearings. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Earlier, he was awarded a Harvard Graduate Prize Fellowship (1968-70), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1984-85), a residency at Rockefeller Foundation center in Bellagio (2001), and a Fulbright Senior Fellowship to lecture in India (2004). His current major project is a forthcoming book. He regularly teaches spring semesters at a CA law school. Prior to joining the Yale faculty in 1979, he was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1977-79), Director of the Washington Office of Consumers Union (1972-77), and consultant to the Center for Study of Responsive Law (1971-72). He also practiced law in New York City (1965-68) and holds degrees from Cornell (B.A. 1962), Harvard Law School (J.D. 1965), N.Y.U. Law School (LL.M. in International Law 1966), and Harvard University (M.A. in Government 1969). He lives in New York City where he has an office and teaches periodically at a NY law school.

This expert specializes in structured finance, derivatives, securities and finance matters. His experience includes cash, synthetic and hybrid collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), asset-backed securities (ABS) of various types, structured investment vehicles (SIVs), collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), mortgage-backed securities (MBS), credit default swaps (CDS), interest rate swaps, credit-linked notes (CLNs), repurchase ("repo") agreements and securities fraud. As a transactional attorney he has been an Associate, Special Counsel or Partner at several of the leading transactional law firms in the United States, including Shearman & Sterling; Mayer, Brown & Platt; and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. As an expert witness and/or consultant, he has worked with many of the leading litigation firms, and leading litigation departments of full-service firms, in the country, including Berger Montague; Chapman and Cutler; Kirby McInerney; Labaton Sucharow; Patterson Belknap; Robbins Geller; Scott + Scott; and Williams & Connolly.

This highly qualified expert earned her BA in Forensic Psychology and her MA in Criminal Justice from John Jay College. She went on to receive her MSW from Hunter College and her MPhil and PhD in Social Welfare from the City University of New York. She is a certified field instructor and rape crisis counselor and a licensed clinical social worker. She has over 15 years of clinical and research experience in social work and has published over 12 journal articles and reports on various topics in social work, including youth criminal offenders. She formerly served as a forensic examiner for the Pasadena Juvenile Court and as an assistant professor and interim director of field education at California State University, Los Angeles. She currently serves as the director of field education for a social work school in NY.

This well-credentialed expert is a licensed psychologist in New York and New Jersey, as well as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in New York. He earned his B.A. in Psychology from Adelphi University, his M.A. in Clinical Psychology, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After completing his Ph.D., the expert began his career working at the Catholic Charities foster care and group home agency in Brooklyn. He later directed a large mental health system in Oklahoma and then served as the Clinical Director of a large county mental health clinic upon returning to New York. The expert is active in New York and New Jersey as a forensic psychologist, providing testing and assessment of patients including psychological diagnosis, child abuse/neglect assessments, and alcohol/substance abuse assessments.

This highly-qualified expert has nearly 20 years of experience as a forensic accountant and auditor, with extensive experience in information technology, information systems, fraud, and damages. He received his BS in computer science from New York University before earning his MS in accounting from Pace University. This expert is certified as a public accountant, an information technology professional, an information systems manager, and a fraud examiner. He is active in his field as a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the Information System Audit & Control Association. He has previously been a partner at several accounting firms, such as Nasberg PLLC and Grassi & Co. CPAs. Currently, this expert is a partner at a valuation firm in New York, a consultant for an accounting and business consulting firm, and an adjunct professor at a New York university.

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 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.