Appraisal and Valuation Expert Witnesses: 40

Robert Bates, JD, CPA, CFE, CVA, has over 30 years of Financial Management and Accounting experience as a Controller and CFO in various industries. He has been in several industries, including telecom, media, retail and financial services in addition to having consulting experience at startups in the software, technology, and life sciences fields. 

Mr. Bates specializes in International Accounting, Software Issues, and Obtaining Financing. The CFO of a public company, he has completed due diligence accounting/reporting for 12 acquisitions, including performing Business Valuations and dealing with FAS 142 issues. Mr. Bates has handled accounting for complex debt instruments including warrants, beneficial conversion feature, and other derivative issues. He has also been responsible for SEC reporting: 10Q’s and 10K’s. 

Litigation Support - Robert Bates has worked with dozens of lawyers on over 50 cases in various states. Sometimes he provides financial support for a client in litigation, or pre-litigation, and other times he provides a report, such as a damages calculation, which can be used in litigation. He also has experience providing testimony in depositions and trials. 

Legal Services:

• Unbiased Case Analysis
• Discovery Review & Recommendations
• High-Impact Demonstrative Exhibits
• Strategy and Tactics Conferences
• Damage Calculations
• Cash Flow Analysis Reports
• Profit and Loss Analysis

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Rod Bergen has an extensive education and background in Horse Behavior and Horsemanship. Mr. Bergen is nationally certified as an Advanced (Level III) Horseback Riding Instructor by the American Riding Instructors Association (ARIA) in Dressage, Recreational Riding and Mounted Patrol. He has owned and managed horse training, breeding and boarding facilities for over 30 years. He is a Certified Equine Appraiser and member of the American Association of Equine Appraisers. 

Mr. Bergen is qualified to testify as an Equine Forensic Consultant in the California Superior Courts. He has served as a Horse Expert in over 40 legal cases (including 5 deaths) involving horses and horse facilities. Mr. Bergen is listed with the L.A. County Bar Association as an Equine Forensic Consultant / Expert Horse Witness. Specialties:

• Personal Injury & Property Damage
• Equine Accident Reconstruction
• Horse Facility Evaluations
• Riding Equipment Suitability
• Horsemanship Safety Standard of Care
• Equine Problems & Personal Liability Issues During Competitions
• Trail Riding
• Parades

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EJ Janik, CPA, CFF, CFE is a Certified Public Accountant with 40 years of professional experience. He specializes in financial audits, compilations and reviews, consulting for commercial litigation, antitrust matters, engineering and construction matters, real estate, and bankruptcy / business reorganizations matters. Mr. Janik holds a Master of Science in Accounting from Louisiana State University and a Bachelor of Commerce from Rice University. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Janik has provided over 150 financial audits and consulted in over 785 business disputes. He has provided expert testimony in over 88 matters including trial testimony in 58 trials or hearings in 8 states. Mr. Janik's accounting services include Damages/Lost Profit analysis, Forensic Accounting, Fraud Investigations, Fact Finding, Financial Analysis, and Expert Witness Testimony when necessary. Litigation Experience:

Antitrust/Pricing Issues Audits Bankruptcy Analysis Business Interruption Business Valuation Construction Claims Contract Disputes Cost Determinations Criminal Investigations Damage Analysis/Critiques

Debt & Capital Analyses Dispute Resolution Due Diligence Environmental Claims Feasibility Studies Forensic Accounting Fraud Investigation/Analysis Hazardous Waste/Remediation Insurance Claims

Lost Profits Mergers & Acquisitions Real Estate Royalties, Commissions, Income Solvency Superfund/Environmental Claims Tracing Valuations Wastewater White Collar Crimes

Mr. Janik is also uniquely qualified to measure construction claims and damages. With over 11 years of construction experience, he has accumulated over 13,000 Engineering and Construction (E&C) auditing hours, 10,000 E&C consulting hours, and 15,000 E&C supervised hours. Construction Claims Services include:

Acceleration Change Orders Costs Defective Plans Differing Site and Concealed Conditions Direct Costs Disruption Evaluating Claims

Indirect Costs Overhead Payroll Fringe Burdens Profit Pre-Qualification Filings Superfund / Hazardous Waste Sites Terminations Other Construction Issues

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As of January 2024: I have been deposed over 150 times and reviewed over 1,000 cases for both defense and plaintiff, including peer review, accidents, and malpractice. 52% defense / 48% plaintiff. I have qualified in Superior Court over 75 times and have never been disqualified on the stand or prior to trial. At least 95% of my time is spent in patient care. 

I can be counted on to be ethical, competent, prepared, analytical, articulate, and persuasive at depositions and court appearances. As of February 2024, there are over 297 published articles, write-ups and lectures in print, radio, and TV. (http://www.expertwitness.dental/)

 I hold two current professorships: UCLA School of Dentistry (Volunteer) & NYU College of Dentistry. Licensed in 42 states to opine on the standard of care, with specific licenses in California, Nevada, New Mexico, and the Northeast as well as a Florida Expert Certification. Graduated NYU 1988; GPR Residency NYU 1989, Lieutenant, United States Navy 1989- 1991; private practice Brentwood, CA since 1991 – serving over 15,000 patients on a fee-for-service basis.

Founder of the non-profit “Homeless Not Toothless” (www.homelessnottoothless.org), which has made it possible for over 124,000 homeless Veterans, women of domestic abuse and foster children to receive over $10 million in pro-bono dental care. 

 

Member: 

American Academy of Cosmetic Orthodontics: 2013-present, American Dental Association (ADA) since 1991 

Peer Review Committee ADA 1995-2009, 

American Legion 2018 - present

Medical Disciplinary Committee Delta Dental 2000-present; Veteran Administration QME Examiner 2019-present

 

Jay Hibert was in the Commercial Banking Industry for over 25 years before leaving to form his own company, a real estate lending and consulting company. The company provides services to banks, non-banks, and individuals in need of creative financing solutions.  Still an ACTIVE lender in the industry, Jay stays updated on current customs and practices and has transacted hundreds of real estate and non-real estate loan negotiations in times of economic growth as well as downturns in the economy. His extensive credit background arms him with the understanding of how banks and other lenders operate internally.  

Litigation Experience - Mr. Hibert has been providing expert witness and consulting services since 2010. He has been designated over 250 times as an expert in 25 different states concerning matters relating to commercial lending, real estate, construction finance, SBA loans, brokerage, hard money loan expert and investment issues. His experience includes both Federal and State court cases where he has provided deposition testimony, trial testimony and arbitration testimony. 

Jay is a licensed Real Estate Broker (Cal DRE #01523) and for 10 years his company was a California Finance Lender and Broker through the California Department of Business Oversight. He is experienced in trial and deposition testimony and his services are available to counsel representing both Plaintiff and Defense. 

Key areas of expertise in litigation work include:

• SBA Real Estate Loans
• Hard Money Loans
• Lending Policies, Custom and Practice/Lender Liability
• Broker Standards of Care and Fiduciary Responsibility
• Loan Underwriting and Credit Administration
• Loan Process and Bank Loan Restructure/Workout Process
• Note Valuations/Collateral Review
• Litigation and Discovery Consulting
• Banking Operations/Administration
• Expert reports adherent to Federal Rule 26
• Hard Money Lending
• SBA Lending
• Loan Syndication/Secondary Market Loan Sales
• Title Insurance Cases
• Private Money Lending
• Predatory Lending
• Financial Elder Abuse
• Covid Related Finance Issues

*****Experienced in trial and deposition testimony*****

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Keegan Linscott & Associates, PC is a full-service accounting firm with more than 27 years of experience providing expert services as Certified Public Accountants, Certified Fraud Examiners, Forensic Accountants, and Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors.

KLA's litigation support team assists clients and their attorneys to prepare for the financial and economic facets of settlement or trial proceedings. They perform in-depth analyses and provide clear and detailed explanations of findings. They assist attorneys as consultants or in the court in a wide range of cases and investigations. Their role can involve fact-finding, discovery, settlement negotiations, trial support, and expert witness testimony.

The professionals at KLA have testified as experts in Federal, District, Bankruptcy, State, and Tax Courts, as well as before arbitration panels. They have the proven ability to develop and communicate compelling analyses of accounting, economic and financial information to judges and juries in plain, simple language through affidavits, written reports, oral testimony, and trial graphics.

Litigation Support Services:

• Analyze damages involving commercial litigation and damages involving individuals, including lost profit analysis, owner disputes, employee/employer disputes, personal injury, and business interruption claims
• Evaluate the opposing party's financial damages report to uncover any hidden facts or missing information in a business damages case
• Divorce litigation, including analysis of sole and separate property issues
• Locate hidden assets
• Analyze preference claims, inter-company transfers of assets, and fraudulent conveyances

Christopher G. Linscott, CPA, CFE, CIRA, is a Director of Keegan Linscott & Associates and is the Director of Litigation, Forensic Accounting, and Bankruptcy Support Services.

Mr. Linscott was previously employed with the international CPA firms of Coopers & Lybrand (now Price­water­houseCoopers), and Peat Marwick (now KPMG). He has more than 30 years of ex­perience in public accounting.

Mr. Linscott specializes in the areas of Litigation Support, Bankruptcy Reorganization, Fraud Investigations and Prevention, and Business Consulting. He has served clients in industries including construction, health care, home builders and developers, law firms, manufacturing and distribution, non-profit, professional services, real estate, restaurant franchises, retail service, and wholesale.

Mr. Linscott is a Member of the Arizona Society of CPA's, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, National Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, and a Director of the Board of Directors at Bashas’.

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John A. Harris, is Principal of Landscape Economics, LLC, President of Earth Advisors, Inc., and a LANDSCAPE ECONOMIST who has worked in the Arboriculture, Forestry, landscape, and horticultural fields for over 40 years. Mr. Harris has provided reputable consulting, education, and project management services for projects across the United States and internationally, in both temperate and tropical ecosystems. Areas of Expertise include:

• Landscape and Tree Risk Assessments
  • Landscape, Tree, Urban Forest, Nursery Plant Value Appraisals
  • Landscape, Tree, Urban Forest, Nursery Plant Damage Appraisals
  • Damage Assessments, Claims, and Recovery Consulting

• Arboriculture Industry Standards and Standard Practices
• Landscape, Arboriculture, Forestry, Environmental Project Management
• Utility Line Clearance Industry Standards and Standard Practices, Electrocution
• Landscape Industry Standards and Standard Practices- Design, installation, maintenance
• Personal Injury and Wrongful Death involving tree or landscape issues
• Municipal Tree Inventory and Management Plans
• Duty of Care and Negligence in Tree and Landscape Maintenance
• Forestry and Forest Resources Management
• Grounds Maintenance Practices
• Arboriculture and Arborist Practices

William R. Legier is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, and Certified in Financial Forensics. With over 51 years in business, he has extensive forensic accounting and complex commercial litigation experience.

Mr. Legier is a former senior accountant for Arthur Andersen & Company, international CPA firm, and a former chief financial and operating officer for a $100 million diversified corporation. He currently lectures on accounting, finance, tax, business and business information technology, management control systems, business valuation, fraud, and forensic accounting to groups sponsored by RCA, IBM, Louisiana State University, Tulane University, A. B. Freeman School of Business, University of New Orleans, and other leading companies and institutions

Litigation Support - Mr. Legier's expert witness services include the forensic analysis and explanation of complex financial transactions with the use of advanced automated graphic design and display techniques. He provides testimony in Federal and State Courts throughout the US for leading national law firms and Fortune 100/500 companies in areas including:

Calculating Lost Profits Fraud Detection and Recovery Mismanagement Bankruptcies Appointment of Receiver Business Valuations Shareholder Disputes Evidence of Ownership Identification of Hidden Assets Corporate Veil Piercing Business Interruptions Single Business Enterprises Accounting Malpractice Marital Dissolution Separate and Community Property Spousal Support Tracing

Lost Earnings Personal Injury Intellectual Property Patent / Trademark / Copyright infringement Trade Secrets Reasonable Royalties Investigative Accounting Breach of Contract Breach of Fiduciary Duty White Collar Crime Real Estate Securities Product Liability Business Dissolution Construction Defects, Delays, and Cost Overruns Wrongful Termination Data Analytics

Richard Singer is the leading expert in Golf Facility Operations, Transactions and Valuation Consulting. He has been qualified as an expert witness in cases involving golf course transactions, valuations, liability, economic potential, usual and customary practices and business plan preparation.

Mr. Singer has been the Director of Consulting Services for the National Golf Foundation (NGF) since 1997, and now has a total of 26 years of golf facility consulting experience. He first joined the NGF consulting staff in 1989 as a project analyst after completing his Finance MBA at the University of Florida. Mr. Singer has successfully managed the NGF’s well-known golf consulting practice with an industry-respected track record of success and a reputation for delivering projects on time and on budget.

Mr. Singer’s consulting services for alternative golf facilities have included both new development and operational reviews for driving ranges, putting courses, miniature golf courses, golf learning centers, executive / par-3 courses, and various combinations with other facilities. He co-authored the NGF publication How to Plan, Build and Operate a Successful Golf Range.

Experience Includes:

Golf Facility Feasibility Analysis Golf Operations Consulting Account Management Real Estate Master Planning Expert Witness Financial Analysis Business Plan Preparation

Budgeting / Planning Public Presentations Golf Business Valuation Golf Market Analysis Staffing / HR Proposal Writing Credit Evaluation

Golf Facility Operations Consulting Services Include:

Golf Course Inspections Operational / Accounting Audits Management / Operations Contract Preparation Clubhouse Design / Needs Assessments	RFP Preparation Assistance Golf Marketing Strategies Green Fee / Member Pricing Business Plan Preparation Litigation Assistance

Nevium’s experts are trial-tested IP custom & practice damages experts who take a hands-on approach with all their IP litigation assignments. Whether you are in need of an expert to calculate economic damages as lost profits / unjust enrichment, give an opinion on specific business clauses in a license agreement or to leverage Internet and Social Media analytics to prove or disapprove infringement, Nevium has the experience and expertise. 

Litigation Support:Nevium works closely with C-Level executives, in-house and outside counsel to implement the best possible business strategy that intertwines with the legal strategy. Nevium is part of the team early on in the litigation process assisting with discovery requests and deposition questions. Nevium’s experience and expertise allows the managing attorney to focus on the legal issues knowing that Nevium is proactively taking care of the business side of the case. As experienced Intellectual Property Consultants, they have real-word, hands on IP management, monetization and valuation experience that plays out well in front of a judge and jury. Nevium professionals provide IP expert witness testimony related to economic damages in a range of lost profits, unjust enrichment, relief from royalty, reasonable royalty, relief from pay per click, corrective advertising and IP valuation. They author reports and provide testimony for federal and state court claims, arbitration, and mediation related to false endorsement, defamation, infringement and unfair competition. 

Litigation Expertise

Trademark Damages Copyright Damages Patent Damages

Publicity Rights Damages Defamation Damages Internet and Social Media Damages

Areas of Analyses Expertise

Lost Profits Relief from Royalty Reasonable Royalty

Unjust Enrichment Relief from Pay Per Click Corrective Advertising

Past Law Firm Clients

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Gordon & Rees Higgs Fletcher & Mack Latham & Watkins Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

Dorsey & Whitney Greenberg Traurig Husch Blackwell McGuireWoods Winston & Strawn

Doug Bania, CLP, Founding Principal
Doug Bania is a founding principal of Nevium Intellectual Property Consultants.  Nevium is an intellectual property consulting firm specializing in developing IP strategies, IP valuation and monetization of IP as well as providing expert testimony related to IP damages and licensing customs and practices. He has been the named expert for over 75 cases, deposed 20 times, and has provided trial testimony 5 times.

Mr. Bania is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP), a Google Analytics Certified Individual (GAIQ), and is a past committee member (2016 - 2019) for the International Trademark Association (INTA) Internet Committee and the ICANN Compliance and Domain Name Industry Subcommittee, a current member of the INTA Right of Publicity Committee and the American Bar Association (ABA), Copyright & Social Media Committee.

Mr. Bania specializes in analyses for copyright, trade dress, trade secrets and trademark infringement, publicity rights, social media and Internet infringement, defamation, marketing strategy analyses, royalty rate determinations and other intangible assets. Mr. Bania also provides valuation and monetization strategies for trademarks, trade secrets, publicity rights, domain names, Internet and social media assets, brands, copyrights and other intangible assets for financial reporting, bankruptcy and transactional due diligence.

San Diego Office 415 Laurel Street, Suite 341 San Diego, CA 92101 Telephone: 858-255-4361 Email: info@nevium.com

Los Angeles Office 9107 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 450 Beverly Hills, CA 90210 Telephone: 310-975-3145 Email: info@nevium.com

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The team at Nolte Analytics, LLP includes experts with over 40 years of experience performing Damage Analyses, Valuation, Economic Studies, and Financial Investigations. Their experience prevents false starts and avoidable errors, delivering more cost-effective results.

Clients have included companies in the following industries: aerospace, automobile, banking, beverages, construction, electronics, technology, energy, entertainment, food, government, insurance, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, restaurants, retail, and more.

The experts at Nolte Analytics have been quoted or published in the following, often multiple times: The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Daily Journal, Los Angeles Lawyer, Los Angeles Business Journal, and many others for their opinion on matters relating to their area of specialization.

Litigation Support - Nolte Analytics' client work focuses primarily on valuation of businesses and intangible business assets, economic studies, royalty and fraud auditing, and litigation-related financial analysis. Their experts have served many of this country’s prominent companies and most of the largest law firms, with thousands of hours of testimony and over 200 trial testimonies. They typically present conclusions graphically, using a proprietary presentation system.  As a result, they have an unequalled track record of judges and juries accepting their conclusions.

Areas of Expertise:

• Business and intangible asset appraisal, loss of business value, minority shareholder disputes, buy-sell agreements
• Commercial damages measurements, including, unjust enrichment, lost profits, disgorgement, breach of contract, business interruption, business interference, patent infringement, trademark infringement, patent, copyright and trademark infringement, theft of trade secrets, reasonable royalties
• Employment claims, wrongful termination, wrongful death, personal injury, future lost earnings, loss of earnings capacity, loss of benefits
• Financial accounting Forensic accounting, royalty and compliance audits, fraud investigations

Mr. Bornsworth is the owner and principal of Peninsula Environmental Group, Inc., an interdisciplinary consulting firm and general contractor assisting public and private sectors across the United States. John is an experienced urban & community forester, Board Certified Master Arborist, Registered Consulting Arborist, and ecologist with twenty years of diverse natural resource experience. John is a current chair member and former vice-chairperson of the Washington State Department of Natural Resource’s Washington Community Forestry Council, representing commercial arboriculture.

John specializes in tree and vegetation expert consulting and urban forest planning. John is an experienced tree forensics expert, tree and vegetation expert witness, and tree and landscape appraiser. John's planning and policy experience includes urban forest and natural resource management, planning, policy review and strategy, and Washington state critical area codes

Litigation Support 

• Experienced as expert witness for both plaintiff and defendant.
• Routinely provide expert opinion and testimony on arboricultural, horticulture and vegetation management to areas of legal practice that include land use, real estate, trespass, negligence, and personal injury. 
• Retained as expert witness on over eighty projects and have provided testimony on sixteen of those cases
• As of Jan 13, 2021, there are 14 ASCA Registered Consulting Arborists and 30 ISA Board Certified Master Arborists in Washington out of 417 ISA Certified Arborists. Only 7 individuals hold both the RCA and BCMA credentials together. Nationwide roughly 300 professionals hold both credentials

Credentials 

• ISA Board Certified Master Arborist # PN-7955BM (2018)
• Registered Consulting Arborist #724 (2019)
• ISA Certified Municipal Specialist (2015)
• Tree Risk Assessment Qualified since (2014)
• Certified Erosion and Sediment Control Lead

https://peninsulaenvironmental.com/staff/john-bornsworth/

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Dennis Gemberling, CHA, CFBE, FMP, FCSI, President and Founder of Perry Group International, has over 35 years of experience in the Hospitality Management industry. His experience includes managing, operating, and consulting on full-service, limited-service, extended-stay, all-suite, condo and timeshare hotels and resorts, casual, fine-dining, and quick-service restaurants, bars and nightclubs, catering and special event facilities, casinos, and mixed-use real estate. 

Mr. Gemberling has held prior positions for different owners, operators, and chains as Senior Vice President, General Manager, Director of Food & Beverage, and Restaurant Unit Manager. He has been retained on over 400 projects with typical values in the $1 million to $75 million range and revenues in the $1 million to $100 million range both nationally and internationally. His many clients have include among others Biscuits & Blues, Cantina’s, Chevy’s, Choice Hotels, Embassy Suites, Hampton Inns, Hilton, Holiday Inns, Hooter’s Casino, Hyatt, Marriott, McDonald’s, Microtel Inn & Suites, Outback Restaurants, Radisson, Residence Inns, Signature Resort, Sizzler, Sonic Drive-Ins, Starbucks, Starwood, Sheraton, Togo’s, Wendy’s, and Willie Mays Skybox Lounge. 

Litigation Support: Dennis Gemberling is a Certified Hotel Administrator, Certified Food and Beverage Executive, Certified Foodservice Management Professional, and Certified Food Safety Manager. He offers expert witness services to attorneys for plaintiff and defendant cases on a variety of Hospitality-related claims. He is a Professional Member of Foodservice Consultants Society International and the Forensic Expert Witness Association. Mr. Gemberling also provides expertise as a Court Appointed Receiver and Interim Property Manager and is currently the Past President and a Board of Director for the California Receivers Forum – Bay Area Chapter. 

Areas of Expertise:

Management & Operations Income Analysis & Valuation Employment, Hiring & Labor Issues Lost Profits & Future Earnings Business Interruption Planning & Feasibility Upkeep & Maintenance Customs & Trade Practices Standards of Care

Franchise, Management & Operator Contracts Brand, Franchise, Franchisee Apparent Agency Issues Safety & Security Contractor & Entertainment Use Food & Alcoholic Beverage Handling Costs, Economic & Marketing Impact Procurement & Purchasing Landlord / Tenant, Operator & HOA Issues Discrimination & Harassment Construction or FF&E Problems

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David Sinai is the President of the Petroleum & C-Store Management Group®, a division of Grand Classic Oil with the corporate office located in Century City, CA. His company Manages and Operates Gas Stations, Convenience Stores, and Car Washes throughout the United States. Mr. Sinai's clients include banks, private owners, dealers, private investors, oil companies, and attorneys. He actively manages a ground team that works seamlessly with clients to enable a smooth take-over of facilities. On average, his team manages and operates over 200 locations monthly. The facilities managed exceed over 5,760,000,000 gallons of gasoline / diesel products and over $2,936,000,000 of convenience store products. Mr. Sinai and his team have provided expert witness testimonial services in all 50 states, in State and Federal Courts, for clients on litigation and/or eviction cases such as:

• Lender and Borrower Disputes
• Oil Company and Operator Disputes
• Oil Company and Related Supply Contract Disputes
• Partnership Income and Expenses Disputes
• Environmental Matters
• Underground UST System Matters
• Site Assessments
• Valuation and Recovery
• Phase I and Phase II Matters

Mr. Sinai was recently a guest speaker on October 17th, 2014 as lead consultant for a group of attorneys on IRWA Right-of-Way education (California Inland Empire Chapter 57) that was coordinated by Law Offices of Best Best & Kreiger, LLP., Law Offices of Murphy & Evertz LLP., Law Offices of Brissman & Nemat, and Pierce Law Firm On the matters related to Metro Mega Projects, Eminent Domain, and Right Of way. 

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Dr. Stan V. Smith is a nationally renowned Economist and Financial Consultant providing analysis in simple terms that any trier-of-fact can understand. As an expert consultant to plaintiff and defense attorneys representing clients in Federal State courts, he provides testimony and litigation support services in evaluating damages. 

Dr. Smith provides Analysis, Testimony, and Litigation Support Services in Evaluating Damages for plaintiff and defense attorneys representing clients in federal and state courts nationwide. His concept of Hedonic Damages is acknowledged by judges, attorneys, and legal journalists as one of the most innovative tort concepts in the last 30 years. He has been interviewed and published in dozens of respected professional journals. Dr. Smith has assisted in the successful resolution of thousands of lawsuits on behalf of clients that include many dozens of the nation's largest law firms, the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as thousands of other prominent plaintiff and defense law firms in almost every state. 

Areas of Expertise:

Antitrust Damages Patent Valuation Lost Wages Mergers & Acquisitions Business Valuations & Losses Hedonic Damages Pension Fund Evaluation and Withdrawal Liability Society and Relationship Damage Analysis Identity Theft and FCRA Credit Damages

Security Losses Commercial Damages Employment Discrimination Life Care Plan and other Medical Cost Evaluations Structured Settlement Analysis Personal Consumption and Fringe Benefits Product Liability Injury Losses Lost Earnings Capacity