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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Housing experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Housing landscape.
Expert Witness #251994
This expert has been in Commercial Real Estate for many years. This expert is one of a few people in the real estate profession to hold both Certified Property Manager (CPM) and Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designations. This expert has an extensive background in management, brokerage, and renovation of commercial real estate. This expert has been responsible for successfully negotiating over $90 million in real estate transactions. This expert formed a full service commercial real estate firm specializing in property management, leasing and sales of small to medium size properties. This expert served the firm as President and Administrator. The company employed over 100 people and handled retail, office and multi-family properties. The firm specializes in hands-on real estate services for homes associations, condominiums, apartment communities, office buildings, and retail strip centers. As President, this expert oversees more than 100 properties. These properties include over 1,500 apartment units, and fifty homeowner - condominium associations comprised collectively of 6,000 units. This expert has served on the executive committee for a city Chapter of Institute of Real Estate Management, is past President a County Commercial Investment Division of Realtors, and served as a consultant for a Housing Authority.
Start Housing Expert SearchExpert Witness #255205
Public Sector RE Management Expert
This expert is a Managing Director of an independent global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational and transactional. This expert is an experienced real estate professional with strong expertise in real estate finance, transaction management and development and operations for office, retail, multifamily and mixed-use assets. This expert has many years of experience in the real estate industry and a portfolio that includes a diverse range of both Public and Private Sector real estate and program management disciplines, including stakeholder and client relations, market and financial analysis, appraisal review and valuation, benchmarking, project management oversight and strategic planning.
Examples of Public Sector projects include:
- Assisted a university in the development of an RFP and evaluation of subsequent responses for the development of a 200 plus unit multifamily high-rise for use by their employees.- Assisted a public benefit agency in the development of an RFP and evaluation of subsequent private sector responses for the redevelopment of a transportation station and corresponding development rights including ancillary retail, signage and other commercial uses.- Assisted a non-profit public benefit development corporation in the development of an RFP and evaluation of subsequent private sector responses for the redevelopment of commercial property owned by the foundation for mixed-use multifamily housing.This expert authors and provides expert testimony on real estate matters, including damages, finance and business operations. This expert is a Licensed Real Estate Broker and is an Adjunct Professor for a master degree program.
Start Housing Expert SearchExpert Witness #257074
This expert is a highly regarded real estate professional with extensive experience in counseling and investment analysis, litigation support, acquisitions, dispositions and workout strategies, development, valuation, and marketing. Clients have included law firms, developers, governmental agencies, and corporations throughout the US on a comprehensive cross-section of large, complex and significant properties. This expert has provided valuation / consulting services on hundreds of properties, and has an extensive range of geographical experience. This expert has also been a recognized industry counselor in commercial property rent disputes, senior housing and healthcare facilities and Low Income Housing Tax Credit, properties. Prior to his counseling activities, this expert developed projects as a principal and general contractor.
Start Housing Expert SearchExpert Witness #260531
This expert is an AIA certified Architect with many years of architectural design and construction administration experience with all building types, including educational, medical, R&D, corporate, commercial, custom residential, multi-family housing, military and industrial projects. Emphasizing use of durable, low maintenance materials including stainless, copper, bronze, zinc, cement-fiber, plastics, composites, specialty sealants & industrial paints. This expert heads a building reconstruction and forensic investigation consultancy that provides visual inspection, intrusive testing, defect analysis, repair recommendations and forensic expert services for both plaintiff and defense parties. This expert brings to the table specialized knowledge of construction materials, industry standards, code compliance, waterproofing, vapor transmission, exterior finishes, corrosion, condensation, ventilation, mold, wood rot, suspended ceilings, interior partitions, and structural issues. This expert's experience includes thousands of visual inspections and hundreds of intrusive tests for construction defect cases, including institutional, commercial and retail structures, housing developments and private homes. This expert also provides reconstruction design, details and specifications focused on solving complex construction problems and developing effective repairs for commercial and institutional buildings.
This expert has served as a third-party neutral construction expert for mediators, arbitrators and courts, and retained jointly by both plaintiff and defense parties. Specializing in complex construction disputes where resolution can be facilitated through clarification of technical issues and extensive case documents. Experience includes complex, multi-party commercial and institutional cases.
Start Housing Expert SearchExpert Witness #266507
This expert is an expert in residential and commercial mortgage underwriting and finance. This expert has underwritten financing for 800+ homes to be marketed to VA loan eligible veterans, and for a bank this expert structured and underwrote $150 million in commercial debt financing for acquisition and development projects. This expert also structured, underwrote and closed $25+ million in conventional, government-insured and jumbo residential loans. This expert has worked as expert witness providing expertise in real investment valuation, loan financing, and market and financial analysis in a Federal housing discrimination lawsuit. This expert holds an MBA and Master in Architecture.
Start Housing Expert SearchExpert Witness #235625
This product design expert is an academic professor and program coordinator for an industrial design program at a well-regarded university, with over 35 years of experience in consumer product design.
This expert has been active as an industrial designer working on a wide range of products, from cell phones to juvenile products. This expert has designed many products to be manufactured with injection molding, including soft or flexible plastics. This expert's designs have been recognized in several design competitions and exhibitions.
This expert has served as an expert witness in over 50 cases, mostly involving patent litigation, and has testified over 10 times. These matters have included utility patent issues involving USB rotary housing design, tippy cup design, product design, chip design, and spiral potato design.
This expert has also led students in the design of glassware for foods and drinks.
Start Housing Expert SearchExpert Witness #250010
This ADA expert holds a JD and LLM and has over 35 years of experience advising on ADA compliance as an attorney and professor. This expert focuses on ADA, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and Fair Housing Act issues, including compliance, reasonable accommodation processes, and disability-related legal obligations.
This expert is the author of a recognized ADA-focused legal blog that was named a top legal blog by a prominent legal association for multiple consecutive years. This expert is also a frequent author and presenter, a trained arbitrator on an employment arbitration panel for a prominent dispute-resolution organization, and has worked on matters involving accommodations, essential job functions, and related legal issues.
Start Housing Expert SearchExpert Witness #272527
This M&A expert has over 45 years of distinguished credentials in investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance.
This expert has demonstrated investment banking and capital-raising expertise through a variety of turnaround management assignments in the healthcare, medical device, manufacturing, insurance, gaming, student housing, and real estate industries. This expert has managed acquisitions of similar companies through the roll-up process and has worked to consolidate those companies to help maximize profitability.
This expert's consulting work focuses on M&A lead advisory services, complex corporate turnaround services, litigation support services, comprehensive real estate advisory services, and debt and equity financing, and includes litigation support in over 30 cases.
Start Housing Expert SearchExpert Witness #283937
This realty valuation/appraisal expert has over 25 years of professional appraisal experience and has held a senior executive role with an appraisal and consulting group.
This expert has owned and operated a real estate appraisal company, with experience involving apartments, neighborhood and community retail, industrial properties, mixed-use properties, residential subdivisions, places of worship, senior housing, residential properties, commercial and residential land, eminent domain/condemnation, and conservation easements.
Additional experience includes service as an Adjunct Instructor of Mathematics, military special operations, and high-technology support and project management.
Start Housing Expert SearchExpert Witness #284092
This premises safety expert is a licensed architect with an architectural degree and specializes in ADA issues for commercial spaces.
This expert has performed several building and space analyses to determine compliance with ADA Guidelines, the Fair Housing Act, and other applicable federal, state, and local building codes, and has served as an expert witness on multiple occasions.
Start Housing Expert SearchExpert Witness #286857
This mortgage expert holds a PhD, served as chair of a university finance department and executive director of a real estate and land use institute, and is currently a Professor of Finance-Emeritus.
This expert was an executive in the mortgage industry before joining the faculty of a state university, with a primary research focus on real estate finance. This expert has published over 40 articles and book chapters on housing finance and mortgage markets in peer-reviewed academic journals, including prominent journals in real estate economics, banking and finance, housing economics, real estate research, fixed income, and housing policy, and serves on a number of editorial boards.
In addition to industry and academic experience, this expert has consulted for major financial institutions, law firms, and regulatory agencies and has testified before the U.S. Congress on topics related to residential mortgage lending.
Start Housing Expert SearchExpert Witness #288410
This structural design engineering expert is experienced in structural design and investigation across a wide range of structural systems, from historic buildings to projects involving advanced structural systems and materials. This expert focuses on developing innovative methods of design and construction using an in-house materials lab, computational design approaches, and digital fabrication techniques.
This expert has lectured graduate structural engineering students at a prestigious technical university and currently lectures graduate architecture students at a prestigious graduate school of design. This expert has designed multiple foldable and deployable structures, including modular homes, disaster relief housing, and theme park-related structures, and has a patent related to foldable modular homes. This expert completed master's research at prestigious universities on retractable roof structures.
Start Housing Expert SearchExpert Witness #288726
This disability discrimination expert has expertise in sociology involving inequalities and discrimination, with research focused on gender, socio-economic status, disability, access to education, and employment and labor market experiences. Areas of work include physical, mental, and learning disabilities, including disabilities from birth, medical conditions, accidents, disabilities developed later in life, and disabilities caused by domestic violence.
This expert's area of expertise includes how discrimination can prevent individual agency, such as how housing discrimination could prevent someone from making a choice that would otherwise be within that person's capability and willingness.
Start Housing Expert SearchExpert Witness #289703
This ADA housing expert has served as an expert in multiple federal lawsuits alleging disability discrimination and has provided Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) consulting services to state court systems.
This expert has addressed ADA and Fair Housing Act issues involving housing disability accommodations and modifications, including reasonable housing accommodations and modifications. This expert has also advised municipal clients regarding Fair Housing Act disability discrimination complaints submitted to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
This expert has provided ADA and ADA Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG) advice to state court administrative offices and has provided ADA structural and reasonable accommodation guidance to health care systems and airport authorities.
Start Housing Expert SearchExpert Witness #289718
This ADA housing expert is a licensed Architect with several decades of experience in the specialized field of accessibility and has held a founding leadership role with a professional access specialist institute serving access professionals.
In addition to training, building review, and drawing review, this expert serves as an expert witness. This expert has managed a wide range of architectural projects, surveyed numerous facilities for accessibility compliance, and provided quality control and property assessments on access throughout the country and abroad.
Start Housing Expert SearchExpert Witness #293826
This mortgage fraud expert is a forensic analyst, Certified Fraud Examiner, Master Analyst in Financial Forensics, and Registered Real Estate Broker with over 30 years of experience in transactional analysis, mortgage auditing, mortgage fraud investigation, expert witness work, and litigation consulting.
Through a consulting practice, this expert has conducted training in proving mortgage fraud and securitization of mortgage loans for a federal housing finance agency and a state attorney general's office.
Start Housing Expert SearchExpert Witness #302222
This demographics expert holds a PhD and is a demographer with over 35 years of experience analyzing population characteristics and demographic patterns. This expert has extensive experience inferring demographic patterns from indirect data sources and developing novel analytical techniques to answer demographic questions when standard methodologies are unavailable.
This expert has served as an expert witness in matters involving estimates of births to unauthorized immigrant women and births in which both parents are unauthorized, both for the United States and for individual states. This expert has also provided expert analysis in a federal housing discrimination matter involving alleged discriminatory rental practices based on race, national origin, and familial status, including analysis of demographic and Census data related to disparate impacts on Hispanic and African American renters and discrimination involving tenant populations.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Housing Expert SearchExpert Witness #304104
This general contractor expert has over 45 years of general contracting and corporate leadership experience, with roles including small business owner, regional manager for a major general contractor, senior estimator, preconstruction manager, operations manager, project manager, superintendent, carpenter, and laborer. This expert's project experience includes design-build-negotiated and fully designed hard bid contracts. Publicly funded bid project types include pipelines, pump stations, wastewater treatment plants, backup power generation, bridges, heavy engineering projects, schools, and campus housing. This expert also created an energy services business to provide on-site private energy sources for clients with large power requirements. For over 15 years, this expert has served as an expert witness in matters involving fire-damaged properties, including hundreds of plaintiff-side matters and over 1,400 defense-side matters involving replacement cost estimating and structural issues.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
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