Law Expert Witnesses

This qualified expert specializes in disability, autism, neurodiversity, disability policy, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the intersection of autism and disability with the law. She earned her BSBA in psychology, criminology, and law from the University of Florida before earning her JD from the University of Miami. She is a licensed attorney and is active in her field as an author of several publications about disability, autism, and accessibility. This expert formerly served as an associate attorney for Zumpano Patricios and is currently the owner of a consulting firm based in Florida and an adjunct professor at a university in Indiana.

With a wealth of experience and knowledge in the pedestrian and bicycle fields, This expert has created and taught pedestrian and bicycle safety and education courses for adults, children, law enforcement officers, judges, attorneys, planners, engineers and maintenance personnel. He has developed community pedestrian/bicycle plans, written resource guides, trained police bike patrols, directed special events, lead bicycle tours and consulted on a wide variety of related topics. He is a well-respected presenter. This expert recently completed 10 year terms on the Wisconsin Governor’s Coordinating Bicycle Council and the Ashwaubenon Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Committee. He served on the Board of Directors of the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin for 10 years as well, earning an Award of Excellence for his services.

This highly qualified attorney has extensive experience in the field of employment law. He was formerly in practice as a labor and employment attorney, where he frequently handled cases discussing discriminatory violations under Title VII. He regularly represented employers charged with Title VII violations before the human relations commissions, and on occasion represented the charging parties in similar cases. When he stopped practicing labor and employment law, this expert pursued a career in arbitration and mediation, where he has since mediated over 100 cases for the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, many of which involve Title VII violations.

This expert has 26 years of experience in regulatory and compliance investigation of federal labor laws. An extensive amount of time was with the US Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division as a Wage and Hour Compliance Specialist, enforcing federal wage and hour laws through investigative assignments. She analyzed and reviewed employer's financial documents, including time and pay records, as well as provided technical and non-technical assistance to employers so compliance could be achieved. Enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act included minimum wage, overtime, record keeping, and child labor provisions. Currently, this expert is the President and Owner of her own consulting firm, where she specializes in employment law, specifically the Fair Labor Standards Act. She serves as a third party employer representative for labor issues and oversees and monitors payroll for wage and hour compliance, among other duties.

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 highly qualified expert has been member of the State Bar of California since 1978 and focuses on immigration law. He holds a B.A. in Political Philosophy from the University of Toronto and a J.D. from the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington. Certified as a Specialist in Immigration Law and a former chair of the Immigration Committee of the Bar Association of San Francisco, he deals with various immigration processes including different types of visas. He has been a frequent speaker on immigration law and visa strategies for various organizations including the Northern California Human Resources Association and the British-American Business Council. He currently works as Managing Partner at an immigration law firm in CA.

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.

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.

This highly qualified expert is currently an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies in Business at a major FL university, where he has served on the faculty since 2011. He has taught the Legal and Ethical Environment of Business, Law for Accountancy,Uniform Commercial Code Business Law Problems, and Legal and Political Aspects of Insurance courses. Prior to service on the faculty , this expert practiced law in the states of Iowa and Nebraska in an insurance defense law firm in Omaha, Nebraska for approximately 2 1/2 years. He is the author or co-author of approximately 30 forthcoming or published academic publications. His law review articles in the insurance law area have been published in journals such as the Virginia Law and Business Review, Virginia Environmental Law Journal, Baylor Law Review, William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review, Saint Louis University Law Journal, University of Louisville Law Review, University of Baltimore Law Review, Creighton Law Review, Drake Law Review, North Dakota Law Review, University of Miami Business Law Review, and a co-authored article in the Journal of Insurance Regulation, which is a journal sponsored by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). This expert is currently a member of the state bars of Iowa and Nebraska. He received the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2013 from the Seabee Memorial Scholarship Association.

This expert has deep experience in wills, trusts, estates, and fiduciary administration. This expert’s research focuses on economic and empirical analysis of trusts, estates, and fiduciary administration. His work has been published in leading scholarly journals such as the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the Journal of Law and Economics, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. He is the lead coauthor of the most popular American coursebook on trusts and estates, and he is an editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law, to be published by Oxford University Press. This expert’s research has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times, among other media. This expert is an active participant in trusts and estates law reform. He serves under Massachusetts gubernatorial appointment on the Uniform Law Commission (ULC). Within the ULC, he was Chair of the Drafting Committee for the Uniform Directed Trust Act and he is a liaison member of the Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Trusts and Estates Acts. He previously served as a member of several other drafting committees for uniform trusts and estates acts and as the Reporter for the Uniform Statutory Trust Entity Act (last revised 2013). Within the American Law Institute, he is a member of the Council, the Institute’s Board of Directors, and he is a member of the Council’s Projects Committee. He is currently an Adviser for the Restatement of Charitable Nonprofits and for the Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws. He previously served on the consultative groups for the Restatement (Third) of Trusts and the Restatement (Third) of Property: Wills and Other Donative Transfers. This expert serves as an advisory consultant and expert witness in litigation and regulatory matters involving wills, trusts, estates, and fiduciary administration. He has also led training workshops for trust officers and other professional fiduciaries. He edits the Wills, Trusts, and Estates abstracting journal in the Social Science Research Network, is a past chair of the Section on Trusts and Estates of the Association of American Law Schools, and is an academic fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. This expert now teaches at an Ivy League Law School, where he was the youngest professor with tenure to receive a chair in the history of the school. He previously taught at New York University School of Law and at Northwestern University School of Law. He has won three distinguished teaching awards.

This expert has almost three decades of experience in the field of criminal law and procedure. She earned both her BA and JD from the University of Toledo and is a member of the American Bar Association. She has special expertise in issues related to Miranda Rights, search & seizure and police interrogation of children. She previously served as an associate attorney for Davis Graham & Stubbs and as an assistant and associate professor of law at Creighton University. She is currently a professor of law at a university in Nebraska.

This highly-qualified expert has over 15 years of experience in bioethics. He received his BA in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh, where he graduated summa cum laude. He subsequently earned his JD from Georgetown University, graduating cum laude. He then pursued his MA and PhD in philosophy, with a concentration in bioethics, at Georgetown University. He is active in his field as a member of several associations, including the American Health Lawyers Association and the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities. He has formerly served as an associate professor of law at Widener University and Hamline University, as well as director of the health law institute at Hamline University and an associate attorney at Arnold & Porter LLP. Currently, this expert serves as the director of the health law institute and professor of law at a law school in Minnesota, as well as an adjunct associate professor of bioethics at a medical college in New York.

This highly-qualified expert received his BA in mathematics from Ohio State University. He is certified in CAGA appraisal and is a designated contract auction specialist. He is active in his field as a member of the National Auctioneers Association. He was formerly an instructor at Columbus State Community College and the director of the Ohio Auctioneers Association. Currently, he serves as an auctioneer, an instructor at three auction academies, the executive director of an auction school, and the president of an appraisal company.

This highly qualified expert earned his BS in chemical engineering from the University of Texas followed by a JD from Thurgood Marshall School of Law. He also earned his LLM with diplomas in energy, environmental, and natural resources law, intellectual property and information law, and taxation. He is an expert in environmental and energy law, engineering, and safety. This expert formerly served as a regional engineer, division director, and regional director of the Texas Control Board which is now known as the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Currently, this expert serves as an engineering manager for an air and waste engineering company in Texas, as well as an environmental and intellectual property attorney.

This highly qualified expert specializes in Egyptian family law. He earned his BS in law from Ain Shams University School of Law and his MS in US legal studies at Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsber Law Center in addition to being a certified paralegal. Before moving to the United States, this expert served as a sole practitioner at Youssef Atallah Law Firm. He then moved to American and serves as a paralegal for multiple firms including Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC, The International Legal Center, and Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. He also served as a senior paralegal at Law Offices of Jethmalani & Nallaseth, PLLC. In addition, this expert has published a book titled, "Marriage and Divorce in Christianity, Islam and the United States". He currently serves as a legal unit-paralegal for a state government division of children and families.

This expert has 30 years of experience in law enforcement. He earned his BA in criminology from St. Leo University, his MPA from Troy State University, and his EdD in organizational leadership from Southeastern University. He is certified in law enforcement cross training and is a member of the International Homicide Investigator Association and the Florida Sexual Crimes Investigator Association. He previously served as a police officer in the uniform patrol division and as a sergeant in the special victims unit and violent crimes unit at Lakeland Police Department. This expert is currently a sergeant in the uniform patrol division at a police department in Florida and an adjunct professor of criminal justice at a state college in Florida.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in cyber law, risk management, and insurance, as well as data breach response and e-commerce. He earned his BA from Gonzaga University, his JD from Washington University School of Law, and his LLM in cyber and telecommunications law from the University of Nebraska. Today, this expert is a practicing attorney who specializes in cyber law and insurance. Formerly, he served as the director of the Make-A-Wish Montana and managed all operations surrounding legal, non-profit compliance. He has additional experience as an attorney and counselor at law and as a partner and practicing attorney at Joseph, Vicevich & Whelan, PLLC. Currently, this expert is the president of a private law firm and serves as the director of a community bank and a Montessori school in Montana.

This highly-qualified expert earned his JD from the University of Michigan and has focused his career around trademark and intellectual property law. Formerly, this expert has a number of years of experience as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati and the University of California, Hastings. He has additional experience as an assistant professor and associate professor at the Northern Kentucky University, before serving as a professor of intellectual property law at the University of San Francisco. Here, he was the director of the center for the empirical study of trademark law and the institute for IP and technology law. Currently, this expert is a professor of intellectual property law, business, marketing and advertising at a university in California, where he is also the director of the center for the empirical study of consumer perceptions. This expert additionally serves as a consultant on trademark and patent infringement matters with two private consulting groups.

This expert is an experienced attorney who specializes in K-12 education practices, with his work focusing on the adequacy of policies, training, supervision, protocols, investigations as they relate to educator and student behavioral misconduct, including harassment, bullying, hazing, and all forms of sexual misconduct. He earned both his BA and his JD from Washington University at St. Louis, having also earned his MA from Harvard University. This expert is active in his field as a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association and as a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences on prevention of and response to all types of behavioral misconduct in schools. He formerly was a managing attorney for New Hampshire Legal Assistance, New Hampshire Public Defender, and was a partner at Sanders and McDermont. For the last 29 years, he has been a practicing attorney of a New England law firm based in New Hampshire, where he now serves as the director.

This highly qualified expert has extensive experience in occupational medicine and is board-certified in undersea and hyperbaric medicine. He earned his BA in biochemistry from Canisius College, his MS in immunology from Roswell Park Cancer Institute, his JD from Case Western Reserve School of Law, his MS in aerospace medicine from the NASA Grant Program, and his MD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. After finishing his general medical internship at Cook County Hospital, this expert went on to complete his residency in aerospace medicine from Wright State University. He is an active member and past president of the Midwest Chapter of the Undersea Hyperbaric Medical Society and has published over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles. Formerly, he has served as a physician on the homeland security medical team and a professor of occupational medicine at Wright State University. In addition to his work as a medical professional, he is also a licensed attorney, having owned a private legal practice for 15 years and served as a partner of Fisher Broyles LLP. Currently, this expert serves as a physician at multiple hospitals, in private practice, and is an actively practicing attorney in Ohio.