Civil Rights Expert Witnesses
What is a civil rights expert witness?
Civil rights expert witness candidates usually have a background in criminal justice or constitutional law. Different circumstances related to violation of civil rights may require an expert with a background in education, fair housing, immigration, religion, or voting rights. In a high-profile case, the lead attorney may request a civil rights professional with prior expert witness testimony experience.
What types of cases require a civil rights expert witness?
Civil rights are designed to protect individuals from unfair treatment, primarily in the areas of education, employment, housing, and public accommodations. There are several federal laws regulating civil rights, including:
- Age Discrimination Act of 1975 – Prohibits age discrimination programs that receive federal assistance
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) – Prohibits age discrimination in the workplace
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) – Prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability
- Civil Rights Act of 1964 – Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or nationality
- Fair Housing Act (FHA) – Prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sex, and disability
- Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 – Prohibits discrimination against disabled people in programs receiving federal financial assistance
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil rights expert witness case examples
Representing a plaintiff or defendant, Cahn Litigation Services and is frequently called upon by attorney clients to locate a specialist in discrimination cases. Example cases include:
- Title IX campus investigations,
- Sexual harassment,
- Age, sex, and disability discrimination cases
- Police brutality, excessive force, and police procedures
- Negligence and personal injury, and
- Employment and labor matters involving claims of discrimination.
What litigation support work might a civil rights expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support by a civil rights expert witness could include case review, research and literature review, authoring expert reports, deposition testimony, providing expert opinions, and expert testimony in court. In addition, a law firm may seek a civil rights expert for pre-litigation consulting work. It is essential that an expert witness possess the ability to provide expert testimony in such a manner that a jury and judge can understand the evidence.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a civil rights expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Civil Rights 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 Civil Rights experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Civil Rights landscape.
Expert Witness #260804
This expert is a land use / land planning expert with a particular focus on planned communities. Development and management of thousand-acre tracts requires specific expertise in mineral rights easements and leases, permitting, entitlement, use priority, and environmental sensitivity. This expert has specific experience in civil construction projects including roadways, well construction, pipeline laying, trench safety, and excavation. This expert provides technical investigations, analysis, reports, and testimony toward the resolution of commercial claims and personal injury litigation involving land planning, permitting, real estate acquisitions and development, construction practices, premises and construction site safety, civil engineering, and project management. This expert has expert witness experience.
Start Civil Rights Expert SearchExpert Witness #263116
This expert is internationally recognized as a leading expert in the area of electronic balloting and vote tabulation. For many years, this expert has observed elections as a scientist, expert witness, poll-worker and committee person in numerous U.S. States. This expert has been qualified by trial judges as an expert witness in computer science, computer and digital forensics, computer security, computer graphics, electronic voting and tabulation systems.
In addition to a Ph.D., this expert holds various degrees in engineering and computer science. This expert is a senior life member of the Association for Computing Machinery, a member of the ACM/IEEE Computer Society, and a senior member of the IEEE.
This expert has provided testimony to the United States House Committee on Science, Space and Technology; the Federal Election Commission; the United States Commission on Civil Rights; the National Institute of Standards and Technology; and the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
Start Civil Rights Expert SearchExpert Witness #257855
This expert is the Principal of legal nurse consultancy providing comprehensive services including assessment, review, research and analysis for medical related cases. This expert serves attorneys and medical clients in the legal process from identification of merit to verdict, whether plaintiff or defense, with services related to Standards of Care, Medical Malpractice/Negligence, Health Care Fraud, Toxic Tort, Personal Injury, Risk Management and Workplace Culture.
As an educator, collaborator and strategist this expert renders informed professional opinions on the outcomes and delivery of health care. This expert has a quarter of a century of nursing and medical experience, which includes, but is not limited to, Medical Surgical, Intensive Care, Obstetrics and Women's Health, Renal Dialysis, Case Management, Education, Long-Term Care, Management and Leadership.
Specializing in Nursing Management and Leadership, this expert obtained an MS in Nursing, and s BS in Nursing, and a Nurse Legal Consultant Certificate. This expert has served in the role of Assistant Professor of Nursing and, among other certifications, holds an Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Neonatal Resuscitation, and Pediatric Life Support. Additionally, this expert has maintained Medical Surgical Board Certification.
This expert is a member of American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants, Sigma Theta Tau International Chi Omega Chapter, the National League for Nurses, a State Education Association, National Society for Leadership Success, Regional Economic Development Advisory Collaborative, and a Coalition of Nurses Leadership Committee. This expert has served on multiple ethics committees in health care, Presidents Council, Provost Council, and Shared Governance Chair.
This expert has been deposed and testified regarding standards of care and in nursing education regarding civil rights litigation. This expert has excellent communication skills and does not fear a court room setting.
Start Civil Rights Expert SearchExpert Witness #250035
This expert's practice of General and Forensic Psychiatry has gained acceptance by legal professionals nationwide. The practice is in large part clinical. Clinical services, including treatment and consultations, are provided for a range of psychiatric patients from adolescents to the elderly. Additionally, this expert consults for Forensic Aftercare Programs, provides treatment for dually diagnosed patients and has an extensive clinical practice, providing services for patients ranging from adolescents to elderly.
In addition to serving as the practice's Medical Director, this expert is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, where this expert directs and teaches the Psychiatry and Law Program.
This expert has conducted over fifty lectures, workshops, and seminars, on topics related to psychiatry and psychiatry and the law, including the insanity defense, diminished capacity, competency to stand trial, competency to waive Miranda Rights, testimonial capacity/competency to testify as a witness, psychiatric malpractice, standards of care, ethics in the practice of forensic psychiatry, testamentary capacity / competency to make a will, psychiatric disability evaluations, detection of malingering and exaggeration of signs and symptoms of mental illness, and other topics on the interface of psychiatry and the law. This expert continues to provide rotations and training for psychiatric residents utilizing private practice and contractual services.
This expert has participated in over a thousand civil and criminal cases in local, state, and federal courts as an evaluator or consultant at the request of defense, plaintiff, prosecution, governmental agencies, and insurance companies or as an independent evaluator for courts when experts for defense and prosecution offered conflicting opinions.
Start Civil Rights Expert SearchExpert Witness #207287
This personal injury litigation expert graduated magna cum laude from a college in New York and holds a law degree from a well-regarded law school. This expert is admitted to practice in the State of New York, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, Connecticut Federal Courts, and the United States Supreme Court. This expert has extensive experience in personal injury litigation, municipal liability, products liability, civil rights, and construction accidents. This expert served as chair of an alumni association executive committee for a well-regarded law school for several years, served on the law school's board of overseers as a member pro tem, and was elected to membership in a prominent defense and corporate counsel federation.
This expert has held senior ownership, executive, and trial attorney roles at a law firm, along with prior legal roles involving transit-related tort matters. This expert's current practice specializes in handling significant, high-exposure plaintiff personal injury cases.
This expert received a law degree with honors from a well-regarded law school.
This expert has been a member of the New York and Federal Bar since 1980.
This expert served as associate trial counsel for a public transit authority, focusing exclusively on defense work.
This expert later held associate and partner-level roles at a law firm, with experience in insurance defense, self-insured retention matters, and plaintiff-side work.
This expert currently handles defense and plaintiff matters.
Start Civil Rights Expert SearchExpert Witness #284507
This land survey/aerial mapping expert is a Civil Engineer and licensed land surveyor with over 20 years of experience in land and building survey/mapping, boundary disputes, boundary analysis, and title/deed examination.
This expert has published several articles in a legal publication related to land ownership, surveying, and ownership rights. This expert has extensive experience as an expert witness testifying in local courts, state supreme courts, and federal courts in jury and bench trials, as well as experience with retracement and comparison of aerial photographs.
Start Civil Rights Expert SearchExpert Witness #288773
This ADA expert has comprehensive knowledge of ADA requirements and has served in a senior trial attorney role within a federal civil rights disability-rights section, and now works as an ADA consultant and expert witness.
This expert is very familiar with the ADA definition of disability and, in addition to litigating matters on behalf of the United States, has investigated alleged ADA violations, assisted in developing technical assistance concerning the ADA, and provided ADA training nationwide.
This expert has testified as an expert witness in federal court, has been designated as an ADA expert on multiple occasions, has served as an ADA consultant nationwide, and has been deposed.
Start Civil Rights Expert SearchExpert Witness #289701
This fair housing expert is an attorney and compliance executive with experience as a former federal Senior Trial Attorney. This expert has enforced federal civil rights laws, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which requires federally funded organizations and governments to provide language access for limited English proficient people.
This expert has served as an expert in multiple federal lawsuits alleging discrimination, including as a Fair Housing Act expert in a matter involving housing disability accommodations and modifications. This expert also advises government clients on Fair Housing, Title VI, and ADA compliance, including housing discrimination complaints.
Start Civil Rights Expert SearchExpert Witness #290019
This police and security expert holds a PhD in criminal justice and has over 10 years of experience as an expert witness, with most cases involving Section 1983 civil rights violations by law enforcement officers. Most of this expert's consulting work has been for plaintiffs.
This expert has over 40 years of law enforcement experience and over 20 years of military police experience, providing education, training, and experience relevant to law enforcement cases involving misconduct and procedural errors.
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