Defamation Expert Witnesses
What is a defamation expert witness?
A defamation expert witness needs to not only have subject matter expertise but must also possess the ability to provide testimony in such a manner that a jury and judge can understand the evidence. In high profile cases, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may require a defamation law specialist with prior expert witness testimony experience.
What types of cases require a defamation expert witness?
Defamation claims often encompass internet defamation, false light, public relations, crisis management/crisis communications, social media defamatory statement, and online reputation management.
Defamation expert witness case examples
Defamation is a false statement about another person that could harm their reputation. Defamation can also cause emotional distress. Libel is written defamation, and slander is verbal defamation. A few notorious libel and defamation case decisions include:
- Air Wisconsin Airlines Corp. v. Hoeper : The Court ruled that the Aviation and Transportation Security Act protects transportation officials from false statements.
- Bose Corporation v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.: A product disparagement action for publishing a negative statement in a review of Bose products.
- Sprague (II) v. Philadelphia Newspapers: A former Philadelphia prosecutor sued the newspaper over a negative statement that implied he blocked a homicide investigation.
- Guccione v. Hustler Magazine: A magazine article stated that Mr. Guccione “is married and also has a live-in girlfriend” though he had been divorced years before the article appeared.
What litigation support work might a defamation expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support by a defamation expert witness could include arbitration, research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, economic damage/valuation assessments, and courtroom testimony. In addition, clients may seek a defamation expert for pre-litigation consultation.
Representing the plaintiff or defendant, top law firms call on Cahn Litigation Services when the need arises for an expert witness to support a defamation of character case. The firm has the many years of experience required to consistently provide expert candidates with the ideal balance of expertise and testimony experience.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a defamation expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Defamation Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Defamation experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Defamation landscape.
Expert Witness #252452
This expert is an independent consultant in matters of online reputation management, social media, infringing domains, defamation, cybersquatting, and other internet and search engine optimization-related issues. This expert's clientele ranges from publicly traded corporations to local start-ups. This expert is well known and a frequent speaker at industry conferences and often writes for industry news sites. Before becoming an independent consultant, this expert held positions in industry. This expert is an experienced expert witness, having served on several cases involving online defamation and simultaneously postings via various social media platforms. This expert knows what sorts of analytics will need to be requested in discovery to ascertain more precise numbers going well beyond the visible numbers of "likes", comments and shares.
Start Defamation Expert SearchExpert Witness #218652
This expert is an experienced litigation expert with many years of senior level Fortune 100 experience and has been retained by many reputable firms to conduct consumer research and to provide expert testimony. This expert has provided expert testimony in more than 70 legal cases: Lanham Act - Trademark, Trade Dress, Patent; Defamation; Commercial Reasonableness; Personal Injury - Retail Merchandising; Misleading Advertising; Misleading Packaging; Damages; Fraud; and more. State, Federal, Class Action, Civil, Criminal, Courtroom and Arbitration Qualified, this expert has opined across a range of issues including trademark confusion, channel strategy, false advertising (including online advertising), branding and marketing, contracts, survey rebuttals, retail strategy, and trade dress confusion. This expert has been retained for criminal and civil cases regarding individuals, corporations, and class action lawsuits. This expert has created, developed, fielded, analyzed, and reported on thousands of studies. In this expert's work providing expert testimony, this expert has conducted surveys on genericness, likelihood of confusion, secondary meaning, false advertising, dilution and more as it relates to trade dress, trademarks, and patents. This expert has provided about twenty depositions in person, via video, and via telephone. This expert has testified in court nearly ten times in cases involving: Misleading Advertising; Consumer Confusion; Secondary Meaning; Fraud; Commercial Reasonableness; Brand and Reputation Defamation. This expert received an MBA and has experience in branding, management, research and strategy. Early in this expert's career, this expert spent years working in the areas of national brand management and promotional marketing. Once the Chief Marketing Officer for a major retail chain, this expert owns and manages a strategic marketing consultancy where this expert works directly with senior executives of many Fortune 1000 corporations providing a wide range of advanced research expertise including design, analytics and advanced statistics along with case consulting across a range of industries.
Start Defamation Expert SearchExpert Witness #252466
This expert is the founder of a teaching/corporate training company centered around the skills for Search Engine Optimization, Google AdWords/Pay-Per-Click and Social Media Marketing. This expert teaches these skills part-time for a continuing studies program. In addition, this expert has expert witness experience, having testified in both State and Federal Court, supporting both plaintiff and defendant, in defamation, trademark matters.
Start Defamation Expert SearchExpert Witness #257554
This expert has strong experience as an expert consultant on issues related to internet reputation, social media, internet defamation and rehabilitating a digital presence. This expert is a frequent presenter at conferences and private briefings globally on the subjects of SEO and Online Reputation Management. This expert founded a firm providing education on online presence and online reputation management to governments and corporations. This expert is well-published with a list of publications on SEO and ORM (Online Reputation Management).
Start Defamation Expert SearchExpert Witness #217512
This expert heads an internationally recognized consultancy providing Expert Witness Services to law firms involved in litigation related to SEO (Search Engine Optimization) technology or business. This expert has been working in the areas of computing, Software development, Cyberspace, Internet/Ecommerce, SEO, and PPC.
CONSULTING PRACTICE
Internet Technology
Ecommerce & Conversions
Online Marketing
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Social Networking
Online Advertising/Pay Per Click
Web Development
EXPERT WITNESS
Internet-Technology Patents, Inter Partes Re-exams, CBM/Post-Grant Challenges
Trademark/Copyrights
Ecommerce-related Unfair Business Practices
Domain Names
Online Defamation/Online Libel
Internet Fraud
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
Founder of an eBusiness Service Provider
Founder of an Internet-enabled publishing firm
VP of Web Solutions for a national ISP
VP of Marketing for a Web-applications company
ecommerce consultant, VP of Business & Corp. Development for e-commerce startup
Extensive authorship related to Internet, technology
working in all areas of online business
AUTHORSHIP
Dozens of Internet & Technology books
Hundreds of Internet & Technology newspaper & magazine articles
Start Defamation Expert SearchExpert Witness #248046
This valuation expert provides economic analyses and forensic services for litigation and has been retained by both plaintiff and defense counsel as an expert witness in state and federal litigation involving matters of varying size.
This expert has performed valuations of individuals, businesses, and assets outside litigation contexts.
This expert has been involved in multiple defamation cases involving net worth analysis.
Start Defamation Expert SearchExpert Witness #257579
This online reputation expert has over 20 years of experience in search engine optimization, internet marketing, website marketing, and domain name matters. As an online defamation expert witness, this expert assesses damages caused by defamatory statements and manages online reputation issues for clients.
This expert has been recognized among influential internet marketers and prominent regional marketers. This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Defamation Expert SearchExpert Witness #265410
This defamation damages expert has over 20 years of experience and is a principal at a reputation consulting firm providing valuations, testimony regarding damages, and licensing analysis. This expert calculates damages for copyright, trademark, and publicity rights infringement and has experience with social media and Internet disputes, defamation, marketing strategy analysis, and royalty rate determinations. This expert is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) and serves on committees for prominent trademark, domain-name, copyright, and social media legal associations.
This expert has been named as an expert in over 100 cases, has been deposed over 20 times, and has provided trial testimony over 5 times. This expert has testified in a high-profile defamation trial involving public perception and reputational harm.
Start Defamation Expert SearchExpert Witness #273418
This defamation damages expert has over 20 years of expert witness experience and has handled over 100 cases in over 30 states, many involving reputation harm. This expert's work includes crisis communications, reputation management, and damage repair.
In defamation and reputation-harm matters, reputation-damages experts generally cannot testify as the author of monetary damages because they are not financial professionals such as CPAs or economists. They may assist counsel behind the scenes in evaluating damages, support the reasonableness and equity of claimed amounts relative to reputation harm, and assess the need and budget for a reputation damage repair program.
This expert has testified in over 30 depositions and over 10 trials, including jury and bench trials in federal and state courts, as well as a number of arbitration hearings.
Start Defamation Expert SearchExpert Witness #274868
This defamation damages expert has over 50 years of experience in investigative accounting, valuation, and litigation support. This expert has testified numerous times in both state and federal courts in proceedings involving insurance claims, intellectual property claims, product liability, and third-party lawsuits.
This expert has quantified defamation damages, calculated damages in media-related matters, and testified in a libel and slander trial. This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Defamation Expert SearchExpert Witness #2498441
This brand management and reputation expert works with many top consumer product and service companies on branding strategy and communications across a wide range of product and service categories. This expert served for over 30 years as a managing partner at a brand identity strategy and communications firm.
In over 20 years as an expert witness, this expert has served in over 100 matters involving likelihood of confusion, brand dilution, and defamation. This expert has also worked on a national defamation matter in the Southern District of Florida and has designed and conducted court-compliant surveys in defamation matters.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
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