Intellectual Property Expert Witnesses: 62

Floyd McConnell, PE, is a business leader and expert witness with Manufacturing Experience in the Aerospace and Defense Industry. With more than 40 years in the US and international aerospace manufacturing industry, Mr. McConnell leads a network of consultants that provide security, strategy, marketing, proposal, expert witness, and management services.

Mr. McConnell successfully managed the responsibility for overall financial performance and operations including the customer relationship and supply chain of diverse businesses within the Aerospace and Defense industry. His portfolio included commercial and military customers in Asia, Europe, the Mid-East, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America and the United States. He has set up supply chains and managed manufacturing and production lines for businesses in Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and multiple locations within the United States.  

Litigation Support: Mr. McConnell reviews cases involving technical or managerial decisions in the aerospace industry and their impact including engineering, management, quality, and program performance, schedules, and corporate decisions. He's been retained on 11 cases; 40% with AmLaw 100 and 20% with AmLaw 200 firms. Cases involve the largest firms in the industry.

Areas of Expertise:

Aviation Aerospace Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Intellectual Property, Antitrust, Trade Secrets Contract and Program Performance Scheduling Issues Critical Path Issues

Technical Issues Manufacturing Supply Chain Production-related Contract Disputes Aircraft Certification and Design Turbine Engines Aircraft Incidents / Aircraft Crashes

As a Board-Certified Forensic Document Examiner (D-ABFDE) and Ink Chemist and Document Dating Specialist with over 33 years of experience, both Todd Welch and Gerry Laporte are world leaders in high profile extremely complex document cases.

Riley Welch LaPorte & Associates is the leading global forensic document firm having conducted high profile multi-billion-dollar cases in the United Kingdom, France, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Canada, Netherlands, Hungary, Israel, Switzerland, and Denmark. We are considered a top-tier firm having conducted work for foreign governments, and are recognized globally by the most prominent law firms in the world for providing the highest level of forensic document examination services to both governmental and private entities.

Areas of Expertise:

Handwriting Examinations Analysis of Ink and Paper for Dating Purposes Impression Analysis Type Font Classification and Dating Page Substitutions Interlineations CPS Codes

Text Insertions Printing Process Examinations Rubber Stamp Comparisons Dry-seal Examinations Typewriter Identification and Classification Detection of Fraudulent and Counterfeit Documents Other Forensic Document Analysis

Committed to fostering education and promoting justice, both Todd Welch and Gerry Laporte contribute to the advancement of forensic science through leadership roles, including service on the BOD for the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners and American Society of Questioned Document Examiners; served as the 40th President of the Midwestern Association of Forensic Scientists (Welch); and served as members of the National Institute of Justice Forensic Science Technology Working Group.

Both Todd Welch and Gerry Laporte have testified as expert witnesses in numerous notable international ICSID cases (ICSID Case No ARB/06/8, ICSID Case No ARB/14/22, PCA Arbitration Case No 2020-21_The Hague) involving forensic document examination, handwriting analysis, ink dating, and forgery detection. Their experience includes testifying before government officials, international tribunals, arbitrations, and mediations. Their testimony has been presented in courts worldwide handling a wide variety of legal matters including: defamation, investment law, insurance law, medical malpractice suits, will disputes, estate disputes, contract and patent disputes, trademark disputes, divorce disputes, and trade secrets cases.

Gerry Laporte and Todd Welch have international notoriety and have testified in major courts such as the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) under UNCITRAL Rules, the International Criminal Court (ICC), the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and appellate courts in Illinois and Washington D.C., among others. Their involvement in high-stakes litigation across multiple geographical jurisdictions, confirms their reputation and widespread professional acceptance worldwide.

Christopher M. Daft, PhD, is an award winning, Oxford Educated scientist whose areas of expertise include medical imaging, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, medical devices, sensors, MEMS, signal processing, and image processing. He holds 23 United States Patents with 20 applications pending, Dr. Daft has diverse industry experience including multi-nationals such as GE, Medtronic, Fujifilm, Samsung, and Siemens as well as several start-ups. 

He has testified at trial 5 times and been deposed 15 times.

Dr. Daft has been an Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member since 2004. He has three years of experience teaching electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois. 

Dr. Daft holds a BA and MA in Physics from Oxford University as well as Doctorate from Oxford in Materials Science.

Litigation Support - Dr. Daft provides litigation support in the areas of Intellectual Property and Medical Devices including Imaging, particularly Medical, Patents, and more. His experience includes a variety of cases in the areas of wearable electronics, imaging systems, and surgical technology. Dr. Daft has extensive deposition and trial testimony experience.

Areas of Expertise:

Design Engineering Electrical Engineering Electromagnetic Engineering Microelectronics Medical Imaging Electronics Semiconductors

Medical Devices Sensors Software Engineering MEMS Signal Processing Image Processing Physics

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Gary D. Fletcher, PhD,  is the Founder and Principal Consultant at RnDDx Solutions LLC, a consulting firm founded in 2015, focused on Industrial Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering and Research and Product Development.  In his 30 years of experience, he has been co-inventor on 23 patents for devices and methods in blood collection and processing.

Litigation Support - Dr. Fletcher has subject matter expertise in Medical Device Mechanical Engineering and subject matter expertise in Medical Devices for blood and specimen collection and sample processing for in vitro diagnostics, point of care diagnostics, and therapeutics, including glucose monitoring. He serves as an expert witness in patent infringement cases involving medical device and diagnostic biomedical engineering, blood collection, separation, fluidic preparation, glucose monitoring, and cell therapy preparation devices.

Dr. Fletcher offers patent litigation services to law firms and lawyers supporting medical device and diagnostic industry clients, who need physical science and mechanical and biomedical engineering expertise for District Court, PTAB, and ITC patent cases. As an industry consultant, his ideal clients are R&D, product development, and innovation leaders in startup, emerging, and established medical device and diagnostic companies, who face product development and competitive challenges.

Areas of Expertise:

Mechanical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Medical Devices Product Development Clinical Diagnostics Blood Collection Blood  / Cell Separation Needles / Lancets Biospecimens Point of Care Testing Microfluidics

X-Ray Spectroscopy Cell Therapy Intellectual Property / Patent Infringement Microscopy Physics Biomedical Sensing Optics Imaging Mathematics Glucose Monitors Lasers

Dr. Fletcher is an entrepreneurial executive with expanding R&D roles in business, technology, and new product development leadership and execution, building and guiding teams in both Fortune 500 and startup companies. With a PhD in physics from Yale, he has a proven record of leadership in creating innovative new businesses and products in healthcare, medical devices, diagnostics, life, materials, and optical sciences.

Joel Beal is an expert in Truck Technology with a focus on electronic logging devices (ELDs), telematics, regulatory compliance, and accident analysis. He is a nationally recognized expert with over 35 years of experience.

Mr. Beal's clients have included Alphabet, Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., Chevron Corporation, ExxonMobil Corporation, FedEx Corporation, Matheson, Inc., Meta Platforms, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Petco, Inc., Sysco Corporation, and many others.

Litigation Support: Mr. Beal provides expert testimony for legal proceedings, grievance hearings, depositions, and trials. He also assists in patent and intellectual property cases. Mr. Beal provides services to attorneys representing trucking companies, private fleets, and commercial drivers, as well as for-hire trucking companies, private fleets, and transportation trade associations.

Mr. Beal delivers clear, data-driven insights to support causation and liability arguments. He has provided expert testimony in both state and federal courts.

Areas of Expertise:

Fleet Technologies FMCSA Hours-of-Service Rules Accident / Crash Reconstruction GPS  Engine Control Module (ECM)

Vehicle Camera System Data Telematics Design Regulatory Compliance Electronic Logging Device (ELD) Mandates Transportation Management Systems

Background Experience: Mr. Beal experience includes leadership in system design, regulatory advisory roles, and extensive involvement with commercial fleet operations. His education includes US, Canadian, State, and Provincial Commercial Motor Vehicles, legislation, regulations, and requirements.

From 2016-2020, Mr. Beal worked with North American Dispatch Systems, LLC, dba LoadTrek Software. LoadTrek, which provided TMS and telematics to specialized fleets in the postal and parcel sectors. In his role as General Manager and VP/Sales he was responsible for sales, training, and support of the LoadTrek TMS, which included dispatch software and ELD.

From 1994-2007, Mr. Beal served as Senior VP for Tripmaster Corporation, which invented Onboard Computers for trucks in 1978. Tripmaster provided systems for most of the US Fortune 500 companies who had private fleets.

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Attorney, Antonio R. Sarabia II, has 30 years of experience in Consumer Licensing matters (revenue, standards, performance, and breaches), Trademarks, Copyrights, and issues occurring in the Apparel Industry. 

Background Experience - Mr. Sarabia is intimately familiar with the business problems and legal issues fashion companies may face. At the beginning of his apparel industry experience, Mr. Sarabia spent nine years as part of the senior management of Guess?, whose sales grew 400% during a single year. Over the course of his time there, the company transformed from a fad into a mainstay fashion company. Since leaving Guess?, Mr. Sarabia has advised various other apparel companies, from publicly-held companies to fast-growing companies like Earl Jean, to smaller start-up companies. .

Litigation Support - Mr. Sarabia is available to serve as an expert witness, whether through testifying, identifying important or relevant issues, or suggesting discovery in his areas of expertise. His services are available to attorneys for plaintiff and defendant.

Areas of Expertise:

• Licensing: revenue projections, forecasts, standards, performance, breach, selection of licensees, damages
• Intellectual Property: analysis, due diligence, investigations;
• Copyrights:  substantial similarity, originality
• Trademarks: secondary meaning, infringement, dilution, searches, investigations, due diligence, theft, trade dress, counterfeiting, rebuttal on damages
• Apparel Business: contracts, manufacturing (local, abroad), import, export, sales, distribution, apparel copyrights, substantial similarity of apparel lines, theft and protection of designs, rebuttal on damages
• Design Patents: defenses based on lack on originality, identify and analyze obviousness and prior art
• Attorney Malpractice: standards of practice for apparel business lawyers, intellectual property lawyers, and licensing lawyers

Mr. Joshua Weiner, NABCEP, is a Solar Expert Witness with over 20 years of experience in policy, technology, sales contracts, project finance, permits and entitlements, project development and construction, engineering and project management, data acquisition and analysis that commonly apply to renewable energy and energy storage projects in residential, commercial, industrial, utility-scale markets, and energy storage.

Before founding SepiSolar, Mr. Weiner developed grid-connected energy storage and micro-grid projects with NRG's Station A R&D team (2015-2019) and NEXTracker's integrated energy storage program, where he played many roles in the development of solar and energy storage products and services, including design, engineering, business, policy, project, product, hardware, and software development. 

Litigation Support: Mr. Weiner brings his experience teaching courses through the UC Berkeley extension program, SepiAcademy to aid attorneys, plaintiffs, defendants, and judges in understanding the complex nuances of construction, technology, and policy of the solar and energy storage industries.

Areas of Expertise

Project Management, Planning, Execution, & Operations Asset Operations & Management Product Design Development Project Engineering Integration and Performance Engineering Engineering Operations & Management Performance Simulation and Modeling

Sales Engineering and Training Discovery & Due Diligence Energy Storage Micro-Grids Energy Technologies Economic and Financial Analysis & Modeling Pro Forma Development

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Shawn A. Hayden MD, PhD, MBA, President and CEO of ONTO Orthopedics, has over 25 years of experience as an Orthopedic Spine, Trauma and Sports Medicine Surgeon in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Dr. Hayden’s focus has always been in providing high-tech, high-quality care to his patients. For this reason, he is constantly training on some of the latest diagnostic and operative technologies. 

Litigation Support - Dr. Hayden assists medical doctors, scientists, lawyers and law firms with civil matters, malpractice cases, business guidance, and idea generation. His services include medical record review, thorough reporting of causation, depositions, and trial testimony as needed.

Areas of Expertise:

Orthopedic Surgery Spine Surgery Sports Medicine and Surgery Endoscopic Surgery Minimally Invasive Surgery Sports Injury Back Injury Neck Injury

Whiplash Sports Concussion Case Valuation Impairment Medical Devices Innovation Understanding EMR Vehicle Injury Evaluation

Dr. Hayden graduated from Harvard College. He received his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and his orthopedic training at the Harvard Combined Orthopedics Residency Program. Dr. Hayden is also fellowship trained in orthopedic trauma and spine surgery at The Massachusetts General Hospital and The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Diplomate of the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery and a Fellow in the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. Dr. Hayden is board certified in Orthopedic Surgery. 

CPA, CFE, CPEA, CFF with 35 years of experience as a financial damages, accounting, royalties, licensing, valuation expert.  Calculations in general damages, intellectual property (copyright infringement, trademark infringement, patent infringement, DMCA, trade secrets), breach of contract, reasonable royalties, wrongful termination, personal injury, consumer product liability & royalty audits.  2017 California CPA of the Year & 2012 Certified Fraud Examiner of the Year. 

Expert in unjust enrichment & lost profits. Sample Industries: pharmaceuticals, medical devices, music, film, construction, machinery, security, toys, software, hardware, media, entertainment, energy, security, personal injury, partnerships, apparel & consumer products. Real world experience as Chief Audit Officer of Beats, KPMG Partner, and at Occidental Petroleum, Unocal, and Disney. While at Ernst & Young and KPMG, led national fraud and royalty auditing. Vice Chair ('16-'17) Board of Regents of the 80,000+ member Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. More than 3,000 forensic accounting contract investigations. 

Mr. Blum has extensive experience working on economic damages in both simple and multi-billion dollar complex litigations. With over 150 matters as an expert witness, his damage calculations have consistently been accepted in court, even in cases involving settlements up to $1 billion. His reports have been recognized as best examples by judges for their thoroughness and clarity. Mr. Blum has represented a broad range of clients, including leading law firms and major corporations across various industries. 

Clients: Microsoft, Dolby, Sony, Paramount Pictures, Mattel, Warner Bros., McDonald’s, Shark Tank, WWE, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Amgen, GM, Sears, IGT, IMG, Tessera, Philips, Diageo, Harley-Davidson, DKNY, Chrysler, Ross, UMB Bank, Bank of America, Everlast, Fate Thera., Medtronic.

Areas of Expertise:

Complex Financial Litigation Patents Copyrights Trademarks False Advertising Malpractice Royalty Auditor Competence Royalty Disputes Wrongful Termination Construction Defect Film Distribution

Unfair Competition Oil & Gas Pipelines Personal Injury Product Liability Breach of Contract Business Interruption Class Action Lanham Act Trusts & Estates USITC DMCA

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Timothy A. Anderson, MS, MBA, is a former FDA Review Chemist with over 43 years of career experience in Pharmaceutical R&D, Quality Operations, and Regulatory Affairs. A uniquely interdisciplined individual, he melds comprehensive pharmaceutical industrial R&D, business development, QA/QC, and consultancy experiences with formal FDA-tenured regulatory credentials.

As a consultant in his own pharmaceutical development advisory firm for over 29 years, Mr. Anderson has furnished clients with services ranging from providing regulatory application filing strategies specialized in Chemistry and Manufacturing Controls (CMC), to current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP), quality system regulation (QSR) audits for finished dosage, and active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing, as well as for device, drug-device combination, and biologic products.  Technical and regulatory compliance due diligence services are furnished to institutional investors.  

Mr. Anderson has contributed to regulatory approvals for over 50 drug and drug / device applications, spanning generic (ANDA) and innovator NDA, BLA, 510(k), PMA, and 505(b)(2) applications, and has provided regulatory compliance remediation services to resolve Form 483, Warning Letter, and Consent Decree issues.    

Litigation Support - Mr. Anderson has been deposed, testified in Federal Court, and functioned as a Subject Matter Expert Witness  and consultant to litigation in over 20 cases in the Pharmaceutical, Biologic, and Device Life Sciences space, focused in areas of Antitrust, Patent, and Product Liability.

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Jon Washington is the Founder of The Innovation Garage, a consultancy established in August 2012, specializing in change management for strategy, innovation, and supply chain. The firm aids organizational leaders in designing strategies and implementing solutions, serving clients from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Mr. Washington's experience includes training over 2,000 leaders and working with 100+ global organizations. His consulting expertise spans various sectors such as medical, automotive, aerospace, and consumer goods. With a mechanical engineering degree and an MBA, he focuses on operational efficiency and improvement.

Previously, he was Senior Director of Product Sourcing at Diebold, managing strategic sourcing and a $5 million budget across 1,000 suppliers. He also directed various product design and development projects for high-tech systems.

Litigation Support: As a named inventor on over 100+ global patents, Mr. Washington has been retained by clients for expert patent consultation and testifying expert roles. He provides patent analysis, claim chart development, and expert/rebuttal reports. He is retained for his expertise in patent-related business process matters involving patent infringement / non-infringement analysis and re-examination and for his knowledge and experience with USPTO and global patent business process support. Mr. Washington's expert witness support includes product failure analysis, project and program management methodologies, and commercial contract analysis. 

Areas of Expertise: 

Patent Infringement Technical Patent Analysis Walker Process Fraud Consumer Products  Complex Technology Casino Gaming Medical Devices

Automotive Manufacturing Tire Manufacturing Tariff Business Process Support Customs and Border Protection Matters (CBP) Patent Infringement Project Management Commercial Contract Analysis Standards of Care

William (Ned) McLeod, Esq., has been a party to many Licensing Arrangements as an attorney specializing in Intellectual Property in the Entertainment Industry (“IP”), both on the licensor and the licensee side of the table, from hard media historical archives to blockchain, and, as a non-attorney producer, both as owner / licensor and, alternately, as user / licensee.

For more than 30 years, Mr. McLeod has personally negotiated hundreds of licenses, and reviewed and evaluated hundreds more. He has studied or taught over 400 hours of Continuing Legal education courses, from historical copyright status analysis to blockchain mechanisms, dissecting project content as different as movie scripts and royalty contracts. Mr. McLeod has designed a college course curriculum for international university students entering the resort and theme park entertainment fields. His handling of licenses have covered a broad scope of venues and clientele, including:

The Rockefeller Center (NYC), the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry and The Navy Pier (IL), the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History (with 8 associated museums), Graceland (TN), Niagara Falls (NY), The Smithsonian, the Kennedy Space Center (FL), Port of Los Angeles (CA), National Harbor (DC), Leadership Conference of Women Religious (“Catholic Sisters,” MD), the Tupperware Center (FL), Gatorland (FL), the Orlando Ballet (FL), Bob Ross (painter), Cousteau family ventures, Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade (live and televised-7yrs), Gilbert Gottlieb, the "Top Gun" Resort and Casino ventures (worldwide), and others.

Areas of Expertise:

Licensing Breach of Contract Right of Publicity Right of Privacy Copyright Infringement Trademark Infringement Royalties Loss of Revenues Investment and Investor Disputes Intangible Assets Film Television Media

Multimedia Theater Music Photography Production Distribution Publicity Content Properties Brands Venues Likeness Life Story Movie Scripts

Litigation Support - In Ned McLeod's 40 year capacity as producer, consultant, or attorney, he has negotiated, constructed, analyzed, attacked, or defended hundreds of business entertainment contracts, licenses, and litigation claims; and served as either consultant or expert witness on such matters.

As counsel (or, on occasion for a personal project, as producer), Mr. McLeod has obtained and operated licenses (regarding Content, Properties, Brands, Venues, Likeness, Life Story, etc.) from Universal Music, Walt Disney Company, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, SONY, the Getty Images, Warner Bros. Music, TED Talks, Discovery Channel, ABC News, The Cousteau Society, Ford Motor Company, the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Collection, National Geographic, Jerry Lewis Films, The Beach Boys, Irving Berlin Music, Estate of Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Petty, Random House Books, Simon and Schuster, HarperCollins, the United States Air Force, NASA, Estate of Yuri Gagarin, Paramount Pictures, and others.

Mr. McLeod has been the expert consultant and reviewer for licensing documents litigated against major industry icons SONY Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, National Enquirer, Mad Magazine, and others involving the review of thousands of pages of licenses from domestic and international records. In songs alone, Mr. McLeod has licensed hundreds regarding films, musicals, and film clips.  

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Tony Mason has 34 years of experience helping attorneys solve complex Computer Operating System issues. His experience includes software development, teaching and writing about technology and working with dozens of companies in a consulting role to solve their problems.

Mr.  Mason has worked with multiple operating systems including Microsoft Windows, UNIX, and Linux. He is the author of two books, including, Windows NT Device Driver Development, several peer-reviewed papers, and numerous non-peer-reviewed publications. 

Mr. Mason is the primary inventor on 12 patents:

US/9830329 Methods and Systems for Data Storage US/9600486 File System Directory Attribute Correction US/9535759 Work Queue Thread Balancing US/8990228 Arbitrary Data Transformation US/8903874 File System Directory Attribute Correction US/8539228 Managing Access to a Resource

US/8521752 Arbitrary Data Transformations US/8024433 Managing Application Resources US/7809897 Managing Lock Rankings US/7512748 Managing Lock Rankings US/7949693 Log-Structured Host Data Storage US 15/791,486 Methods and Systems for Data Storage

Litigation Support - Mr. Mason has gained extensive experience clearly explaining technical subjects so they are easily understood by non-experts. His expert witness services primarily focus on assisting in the preparation of materials necessary for computer operating systems patent litigation. He provides research, prepares reports, and explains technical terms clearly and lucidly. He is available for depositions and trial testimony as needed.

Areas of Expertise:

Distributed Computing Networking Data Storage Forensics Recovery File Meta-data Encryption Compression Computer Security Encryption Anti-virus Authentication Authorization Computer Networks

Blockchain Distributed Systems Network Protocols RDMA Code Analysis Code Analysis Comparison Reverse Engineering Code Failure Analysis Debugging Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning, Adversarial Learning Reinforcement Learning

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Bruce Weiner is a Princeton-educated computer scientist and electrical engineer with more than 35 years of experience in software engineering, AI systems, and enterprise technology management. He provides expert consulting and testimony in disputes involving software development, AI and machine learning models, cloud and API architectures, and the performance of complex software projects.

Mr. Weiner has been retained in U.S. District Court, the PTAB, state court, and arbitration matters. He has served as both a consulting and testifying expert in more than two dozen engagements, addressing software engineering standards, algorithmic and patent infringement, trade secret and copyright analysis, and contract performance issues.

Examples of expertise:
• Artificial Intelligence & Machine-Learning Models
• Software Design, Development Standards & Source Code Review
• Patent, Trade-Secret & Copyright Disputes
• Contract, Vendor & Software-Project Performance
• Cloud, Database & API Systems
• Internet Technologies

Representative experience includes analyzing AI-weighted models used in transportation platforms, evaluating airline, travel, and loyalty program software, assessing enterprise cloud and API systems, and reviewing project performance and contract delivery disputes in complex software implementations. His opinions combine technical depth with clear, factual explanations of how software and AI systems operate, making them accessible to attorneys, judges, and juries.

Expert witness testimony for complex litigation involving damage analyses of lost profits, reasonable royalties, lost earnings, and lost value of business, forensic accounting, fraud investigation, investigative analysis of liability, marital dissolution, and tax planning and preparation. Excellent communicators with extensive testimony experience. Prior Big Four accountants. Specialties include: accounting, antitrust, breach of contract, business interruption, business dissolution, construction defects, delays and cost overruns, fraud investigation, asset tracing, intellectual property including patent, trademark and copyright infringement and trade secrets, malpractice, marital dissolution, personal injury and employment litigation, product liability, real estate, securities, spousal support, taxation, unfair advertising, unfair competition, valuation of businesses, and wrongful termination.

Experts:

Business Litigation and Valuation Barbara Luna, PhD, CPA, CFE, ASA,     CVA, ABV, CGREA, CCRA, CREA John Luna, JD/MBA, CPA, ABV, CFF Dean Atkinson, CPA, CFE, ABV, CAC, CFF David Turner, CPA, ABV, CFF Drew Hunt, MBA, CPA, ASA

Personal Injury / Employment Litigation Barbara Luna, PhD, CPA, CFE, ASA,     CVA, ABV, CGREA, CCRA, CREA Venita McMorris, MA

Dr. Barbara Luna is the partner in charge of the commercial litigation department of White Zuckerman. She has been providing Forensic Accounting, Economic Damages, Valuation, and Expert Witness Services for the past 30 years and has testified in court over 450 times. She has a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University with application to Physics and Finance and a BA in Physics from Wellesley College. Barbara is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Fraud Examiner, an Accredited Senior Appraiser in Business Valuation, a Certified Valuation Analyst, Accredited in Business Valuation, a Certified General Real Estate Appraiser, and a Certified Financial Forensic. She previously was a partner with Coopers & Lybrand and has taught working capital management, business finance, forensic accounting and intermediate accounting at UCLA Graduate School of Management, California State University at Northridge and Pepperdine University.

John Luna is a partner in the commercial litigation practice of White Zuckerman. He analyzes Financial, Accounting, Economic Damages, Business, Real Estate and Valuation issues and testifies as an expert witness on his findings. He has been an investment banker with Macquarie Capital, GCA Savian and Lazard. John has a JD from UCLA School of Law (Order of the Coif), an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management (Edward W. Carter Fellow), and an AB in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University. He is a Certified Public Accountant, Accredited in Business Valuation, a Certified Financial Forensic and a member of the California Bar.

Dean Atkinson is a partner in the commercial litigation practice of White Zuckerman. He has testified as an expert witness in Commercial Litigation and Family Law Matters and has been involved in Resolution and Settlement Negotiations since 1987. He holds credentials from the AICPA as a Certified Public Accountant, Accredited in Business Valuation and Certified Financial Forensics and from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Dean is experienced and has qualified as an expert in business valuation, business litigation and family law matters.

Venita McMorris is a partner and an Economist in the Personal Injury and Employment practice of White Zuckerman. She has been providing economic damages and expert witness services for over 20 years and has testified extensively in court. She has a Master of Arts degree in Economics from California State University, Fullerton and a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Diego State University. She previously was a manager with Coopers & Lybrand and an economist with a medical malpractice trust in Southern California. Venita has taught macroeconomics and microeconomics to college students at Pasadena City College as a full-time tenured instructor and at Glendale Community College as a part-time instructor.

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