Breach of Contract Expert Witnesses
What is a breach of contract expert witness?
Breach of contract expert witness candidates typically have many years’ experience in contract law and/or damages analysis. Experts in breach of contract often have extensive background in accounting (CPA), economic damages, forensic accounting (CFA), or contract administration. In high profile cases, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may require an expert with prior expert witness testimony experience.
What types of cases require a breach of contract expert witness?
A breach of contract occurs when a party to a contract fails to fulfill an obligation described in the contract. A breach of contract can occur when the contract is incomplete or unclear; it is not necessarily an intentional breach. Common types of disputes that could require a breach of contracts expert witness in a litigation include:
- Business contracts: A contract with employees, vendors, and contractors is good business practice for the protection of all parties involved. Other business contract disputes could involve business transactions (mergers/acquisitions), shareholders, and lost profits.
- Commercial leases : Contract language can cause disputes between business owners renting space, and real estate owners.
- Sale of goods & warranties: The Uniform Commercial Code guides the sale of goods between a merchant and supplier. Product warranties imply that products are sold as advertised and are free of defects.
- Non-disclosure or confidentiality agreement: An NDA or CA is a contract between parties that specifies confidential information that the parties could share for a certain purpose.
Breach of contract expert witness case examples
Example contract cases that Cahn Litigation Services include:
- breach of fiduciary duty,
- business litigation,
- malpractice,
- liability,
- misrepresentation,
- construction contracts,
- due diligence failure, and
- intellectual property (e.g., contracts involving licensing rights).
What litigation support work might a breach of contract expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support by a breach of contract expert witness could include contract review, expert report preparation, authoring expert opinions, damages calculations (i.e., compensatory damages, consequential damages, loss of earning, loss of profits, or expectation damages), arbitration, dispute resolution via mediation, and/or expert testimony in trial court.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a breach of contract expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Breach of Contract Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Breach of Contract experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Breach of Contract landscape.
Expert Witness #255955
For many years, this expert has delivered consulting services and expert testimony in commercial litigation matters concerning economic, financial, and business issues. While this expert is primarily focused on the calculation of economic damages, this expert has also assessed liability and provided non-litigation consulting services. As a consultant in a variety of complex litigation matters, this expert has advised on issues involving intellectual property disputes, breach of contract, predatory pricing and buying, antitrust monopolization, personal injury, and employment disputes. This expert's experience spans industries such as semiconductors, computers, consumer products and financial services, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. This expert has been the designated expert witness or non-litigation project leader in more than 70 matters, including cases involving intellectual property (patent infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, trademark infringement, and copyright infringement), breach of contract, class actions, personal injury, employment disputes, and consulting on reasonable license terms (non-litigation). This expert has provided sworn testimony eight times at deposition, three times at arbitration, at trial in state court, and three times at trial in U.S. District Court.
Start Breach of Contract Expert SearchExpert Witness #255943
This expert specializes in the application of financial and economic analyses to complex business matters involving litigation, technology licensing, and valuation, including the use of econometric methods to apportion value among inputs in complex devices. This expert has performed research, given economic testimony, and provided consultation in intellectual property, licensing, commercial damages, and antitrust matters - including the evaluation of economic damages involving lost profits, reasonable royalties, price erosion, unjust enrichment, profit disgorgement, and prejudgment interest - in patent, copyright, trade secret, trademark, and antitrust cases. This expert has also overseen the analysis of fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) commitments and the economics of licensing standard essential patents (SEPs) in arbitration matters, federal district court cases, and at the US International Trade Commission (ITC); assessed intellectual property valuation, monetization, and licensing; and evaluated antitrust liability and damages for patent misuse and monopolization, as well as damages arising from incorrect inventorship.
This expert's experience covers a diverse range of industries, from computer hardware and software, semiconductors and cellular telephony to manufacturing processes, consumer products and pharmaceuticals.
Start Breach of Contract Expert SearchExpert Witness #259189
This expert has significant litigation support experience in varied matters ranging from intellectual property valuation to breach of contract damages. This expert's research and writings have been published in leading academic journals and is a recognized leader in the field. This expert has taught at the University level and has held numerous important positions in industry before adopting a consulting career. This expert holds a doctorate in management economics received an MBS.
Start Breach of Contract Expert SearchExpert Witness #261987
This expert, a Managing Director with a Disputes and Investigations consultancy, brings many years of experience on cases involving commercial damages quantification and causation, and major forensic accounting investigations. This expert has provided numerous expert reports and testified at deposition in approximately 80 matters. In at least 25 matters, this expert has been recognized as an expert witness at trials pending in state and federal courts and arbitration panels. This expert is regularly retained to evaluate issues sch as lost profits, price erosion, unjust enrichment and reasonable royalty damages.
While leading the firm's intellectual property group, this expert also has significant experience in other commercial litigation damages studies in matters such as breach of contract, minority shareholder, business interruption, lost profits, business valuation issues, construction and government contract claims, other commercial disputes and regulatory investigations and settlements. This expert has extensive experience in many areas such as: biotechnology, chemicals, computers, construction, government contracting, internet websites, manufacturing, medical devices, and mining - to name just a few.
Start Breach of Contract Expert SearchExpert Witness #225984
This deceptive advertising expert has worked on multiple unfair business practices, deceptive advertising and promotion, and unfair competition matters involving tools, games, products and services, commercial products, mortgages, media, brands, and online marketing.
This expert has served as an expert witness and has been designated in matters involving marketing, advertising, trademark, patent, promotion, breach of contract, unfair competition, custom and practice, Lanham Act violations, Robinson-Patman Act violations, and related issues.
Start Breach of Contract Expert SearchExpert Witness #248044
This patent damages expert is a Certified Valuation Analyst who determines economic remedies for commercial litigation, including breach of contract, infringement of intellectual property involving trademarks, copyrights, trade dress, and patents, and misappropriation of trade secrets.
This expert has served as an expert witness in state and federal litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants across a range of industries and case sizes.
Start Breach of Contract Expert SearchExpert Witness #260249
This computer science and telecommunications expert holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, with doctoral research in Machine Learning from a public research university, and has over 20 years of experience in computer science and telecommunications.
This expert has hands-on engineering experience designing 3G packet data switching systems and extensive experience with networking protocols, content delivery, and telecom infrastructure.
This expert has served as a testifying expert witness in breach of contract matters involving technological disputes, including trial and deposition testimony.
Start Breach of Contract Expert SearchExpert Witness #278192
This breach of contract damages expert is a professor and founder of a litigation economics firm offering analyses, reports, and expert testimony. The firm provides forensic analysis, economic damage analyses, statistical research, and economic loss reports.
This expert has worked on tourism-related matters, including economic damages involving tourism technology providers and eco-tourism vendors, and has valued several tourism companies over the years.
Start Breach of Contract Expert SearchExpert Witness #281153
This lost earnings/damages expert has over 45 years of healthcare experience, including over 30 years of expert witness testimony almost exclusively in the healthcare industry, and is a certified CPA, Certified in Financial Forensics, and a Certified Valuation Analyst.
This expert frequently prepares reports related to and testifies about lost profits, or the lack thereof, due to breach of contract or failure to disclose material facts in a transaction, and has worked for both plaintiffs and defendants in these claims.
Start Breach of Contract Expert SearchExpert Witness #284887
This breach of contract damages expert has led a consulting firm providing authoritative studies, strategic advisory services, and independent testimony for private and public sector industries, government agencies, and legal professionals.
A primary focus of this expert's practice is the analysis of damages, fraud and forensic accounting examinations, preparation of expert reports, and expert testimony regarding financial and economic claims, accounting disputes, and valuation analysis.
This expert has been involved in many breach of contract matters, including analysis of alleged lost profits related to the cancellation of a vehicle lease contract involving a government agency.
Start Breach of Contract Expert SearchExpert Witness #287189
This damages expert has extensive experience calculating lost profits in a variety of industries both inside and outside of litigation, including testimony in a breach of contract matter involving lost profits for consumer trailer products.
This expert has also calculated lost profits in matters involving restaurant and food-service businesses.
Start Breach of Contract Expert SearchExpert Witness #294450
This damages expert has provided business and financial advice to attorneys and clients in all phases of the litigation process for over 25 years.
This expert's experience includes disputes involving complex financial transactions, intellectual property, lost profits, lost business value, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, warranty claims, franchise and distribution disputes, automobile dealer disputes, insurance claims, employment disputes, and intellectual property infringement issues.
This expert has experience with ecommerce damages, including damages involving tortious interference with prospective and existing contractual and business relationships, lost profits from product sales through online retail channels, and evaluation of opinions associated with patent infringement claims.
Start Breach of Contract Expert SearchExpert Witness #296875
This trademark and copyright damages expert holds a PhD and is an economist providing economic consulting services. This expert specializes in intellectual property, breach of contract, antitrust, and commercial damages.
This expert has testified many times in deposition regarding trademark damages and a number of times at trial. This expert has calculated trademark damages under theories of disgorgement of defendant's profits, lost profits, reasonable royalty, and corrective advertising.
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