Farms Expert Witnesses
Farms expert witness candidates typically have a background and expertise in agricultural engineering, agribusiness, agricultural economics, farm management, food science and/or regulatory compliance. An expert witness needs to not only have expertise, but must also possess the ability to explain technology to lay people, such as a judge and jury.
Farming and farm technology encompasses a wide variety of operations, including arable farms, fish farms, vegetable and fruit farms, dairy, pig and poultry farms. Matters requiring expert witness services can involve intellectual property, such as patent infringement litigation, or trade secret disputes. A farm expert could also be called in on breach of contract disputes, business valuation, agriculture equipment appraisal, food safety matters, fraud and misrepresentation, and supply chain issues. Litigation support by a farms expert witness could include expert report preparation, expert opinion, deposition testimony, and expert testimony in court. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a specialist with prior expert witness testimony experience. In addition, clients may seek an agricultural industry expert for pre-litigation consultant work.
Cahn Litigation Services has been approached by numerous clients to locate expert witnesses, on behalf of either the plaintiff or defendant, that can support agribusiness and farm matters. Whether the case involves:
- livestock fencing,
- pest management,
- farming operation,
- crop loss,
- cattle production,
- animal welfare, or
- eminent domain,
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search around quickly. History has shown that the firm consistently provides experts with the perfect balance of expertise and testimony to support each specific project and its nuances.
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Farms Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Farms experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Farms landscape.
Expert Witness #258425
This expert is President of a highly sought-after forensic accounting consultancy. With many years of experience, this expert provides consulting, analytical, forensic accounting, expert witness, transactional, and other sophisticated financial services to clients in a diverse array of industries and professions including:
- Agriculture- Ethanol and Biodiesel production- Breach of Contract- Farm Operations- Surety Disputes- Gluten Production- Tortious Interference- Supply Chain Issues- Forensic Investigation and Quantification- Fraud and MisrepresentationThis expert has served as the damages expert for several Agriculturally-related matters including:
- A Beef Production matter involving cattle harmed by a defective vaccine. This expert was the plaintiff's damages expert and calculated lost profits on cattle sales, and on consequentially-lost crop land. This case settled.- A series of lawsuits. The first, and most important one, resulted in a major win for this expert's client. The damages have included increased replacement products costs, accounting-based damages, and lost crop production income.- A jury trial resulted in a major win for this expert's client. A company claimed many millions of dollars of lost profits on allegedly lost implement sales. The jury decided damages equal to this expert's number, which was zero.- A class action. This expert was the damages expert for the class. The case settled in favor of the class based on this expert's report.This expert also has extensive experience with the complex financial issues. These have included:
- Business interruption claims (lost profits)- Business tort, contract, and employment claims (causation, damages)- Forensic investigations (causation and damages)- Proof of claim issues (causation and quantification)- Records reconstruction (proof)In addition, this expert is the owner and operator of a farm / ranch where this expert grows corn, wheat, soybeans, and have a herd cows. This expert sells weaned specialty calves under contract, and raise / feed-out many others that are butchered for sale on-farm, and in-town stores.
Start Farms Expert SearchExpert Witness #233218
This server farm architecture and distributed systems expert holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer and Information Science from a well-regarded university, with doctoral work focused on real-time distributed knowledge-based computing.
This expert has over 30 years of direct hands-on experience with server farms across several continents, including Europe. Experience includes hands-on creation, management, and configuration of hardware and software; specifying policy, implementation, and software; supervising staff; and analyzing and diagnosing server systems from applications down to physical hardware.
This expert directed applied research on client-server and distributed computing systems for many years, including for government clients. This expert has served in senior technology officer roles for organizations with large-scale distributed computing operations, including a major public broadband company with its own server farm and international land and satellite operations, an investment bank with nationwide distributed computing operations, and a digital media and SaaS workflow service provider managing a substantial share of digital film and television industry assets with server farms on multiple continents, including Europe, and worldwide public and private cloud operations.
This expert's Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science was focused on software and performance of distributed computing systems. This expert also served as president of an electronics company with international sales, overseeing server operations and specifying and implementing EU GDPR compliance.
This expert has served as an expert witness in over 20 engagements, many involving server and distributed computing issues, with thousands of pages of expert reports authored and over 100 hours of on-record testimony. This expert has performed successful expert discovery forensics on millions of software files and has frequently identified violations including patent infringement, trade secret violations, and spoliation of evidence.
This expert has extensive forensics experience in client-server systems, including server log and file analysis of hundreds of thousands of files.
Start Farms Expert SearchExpert Witness #265372
This arboriculture and horticulture expert has over 45 years of professional experience in farm, nursery, and landscape operations, with additional agricultural expertise. This expert serves as a court-qualified forensic consultant specializing in the investigation of agricultural chemical drift, including off-target spray-particle movement, vapor volatilization, and systemic soil contamination. As a Board-Certified Master Arborist, Registered Consulting Arborist, and Certified Professional Horticulturist, this expert routinely performs objective, evidence-based assessments to determine the root cause of plant decline and calculate the precise economic valuation of lost crops. Technical expertise spans complex agricultural systems including commercial orchards, vineyards, sod operations, and vegetable farms. This expert holds a B.Sc. in Agriculture with a minor in Ag Economics.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Farms Expert SearchExpert Witness #306084
This weed science expert holds a Ph.D. in Weed Science from a well-regarded university and is experienced in pesticide and herbicide litigation, with research focused on the toxicity of pesticides and pesticide education for growers.
This expert has evaluated situations involving growers who misapplied products on their own farms or experienced product drift onto neighboring properties. In a county extension role held for a number of years, these evaluations occurred multiple times and did not result in lawsuits. In a state-level extension specialist role, this expert was also called upon to evaluate product misapplication, including self-induced misapplication and drift to neighboring properties.
As a technical manager, this expert participated in many depositions for an agricultural products company and was deposed in a misapplication case. Through involvement with professional weed science societies, this expert helped with herbicide identification and grower problem sections of annual graduate student contests, which commonly included overspray and misapplication scenarios across multiple crops and weeds.
In an industry relations role, this expert was involved in matters where tolerances were evaluated to determine whether countries would import grain based on pesticide tolerances. In a state regulatory role, this expert's team was responsible for obtaining operating licenses across the United States and territories. This expert is familiar with symptomology in injury cases, assessing paths forward when overspray occurs, evaluating tolerances and product limits in crops, and practical aspects of pesticide use from farming experience.
This expert is also an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
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