Legal Malpractice Expert Witnesses
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What is a legal malpractice expert witness?
Legal malpractice expert witness candidates typically have areas of expertise in law and/or legal ethics. Legal malpractice expert witnesses could be called upon to provide expert testimony as to professional responsibility, professional conduct, legal ethics and/or negligence in a legal malpractice claim. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a trial attorney may request an expert with prior expert witness testimony experience. A successful expert witness needs to have expertise, as well as the ability to explain technology and electronic evidence to lay persons, such as typical jurors.
What types of cases require a legal malpractice expert witness?
Examples of legal malpractice actions include:
- missing a deadline for filing,
- providing advice to a client that turned out to be damaging,
- attorney fee disputes,
- breach of fiduciary duty,
- failing to attend a court appearance,
- after being retained, failing to file a case before the statute of limitations expires,
- failing to respond to motions filed by the opposing party,
- failing to timely file a notice of appeal, and
- breach of contract.
Legal malpractice expert witness case examples
Examples cases that Cahn Litigation Services has sourced expert witnesses have encompassed:
- personal injury causation,
- professional liability,
- New York attorney professional negligence,
- applicable standard of care,
- breach of fiduciary duty,
- conflicts of interest case in New Jersey,
- disclaimer language,
- a California insurance company practicing attorney,
- real estate, and
- law office rules of professional conduct.
What litigation support work might a legal malpractice expert witness be expected to perform?
Under most state law, the elements of legal malpractice are:
- an established attorney client relationship,
- attorney negligence,
- a loss or injury to the client caused by such negligence, and
- financial loss or injury to the client.
Litigation support by a legal malpractice expert witness could include record reviews, providing expert opinions, research, authoring expert reports, and testimony at deposition and at trial.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a legal malpractice expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Legal Malpractice 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 Legal Malpractice experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Legal Malpractice landscape.
Expert Witness #253356
This expert is a Director in a Dispute Consulting group. This expert has provided litigation consulting services for purposes including professional malpractice, financial reporting fraud, automotive industry OEM and supplier claims, business interruption claims, post-acquisition disputes, internal corporate investigations, forensic accounting issues, and franchise related disputes. In connection with these services, this expert regularly performs fact finding and discovery assistance, lost profit calculations, business valuations, lost earnings and wages computations, and other financial analyses. This expert has presented before boards of directors and the Department of Justice with findings related to financial reporting fraud, accounting issues and forensic audits as well as compliance related issues involving design and implementation of financial and operational controls.
This expert's experience encompasses a wide range of industries and engagements including manufacturing, automotive, financial institutions, life sciences, professional practices, retail, software, real estate, food manufacturing, agriculture, physician & professional practices, private equity funds and energy. This expert has presented continuing education seminars on forensic accounting and fraud related topics.
Start Legal Malpractice Expert SearchExpert Witness #261162
This expert earned a JD and then received an LLM in Taxation. This expert has practiced law in the area of legal ethics, reasonableness of legal fees and legal malpractice in an eponymous law firm. This expert is well-published and is a presenter at legal conferences and seminars. This expert is a seasoned expert witness.
Start Legal Malpractice Expert SearchExpert Witness #261974
This expert is a Managing Director for a highly regarded economic consultancy. This expert has consulted with plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of litigation and commercial dispute matters involving theft of trade secrets, breach of contract, chemicals and livestock, fraud, forensic accounting, conversion, shareholder, professional malpractice, and class action litigation. This expert has performed and managed many complex financial, economic, and accounting analyses, including lost profits, lost wages, reasonable royalties, business valuation, disgorgement/unjust enrichment, tracing, fraud investigation, cost of capital, and pre- and post-judgment interest. This expert has been designated as an expert in state and federal court proceedings and arbitrations and has testified in depositions and trials.
Start Legal Malpractice Expert SearchExpert Witness #260593
This expert brings to the table many years of transactional, public and private commercial and real estate finance, legal and bank consulting experience. This expert currently provides a range of financial services to financial institutions, borrowers and domestic and foreign private and institutional investors in connection with risk management, structuring, placing and conducting due diligence in commercial and real estate financing transactions. This expert serves as an expert witness and provides litigation support in cases involving contract disputes and complex public and commercial finance matters involving legal malpractice, credit facilities and debtor and creditor rights.
Based upon experience representing banks, finance companies, borrowers, purchasers and sellers and public entities in conventional and innovative financings, this expert provides select litigation support and expert services in contract disputes, commercial and residential real estate, lender liability, legal malpractice, public finance, complex lending and credit facilities, and financial fraud cases. This expert's experience spans many years of due diligence, structuring, closing and restructuring public and commercial financial transactions on behalf of lenders; county, state and federal authorities and issuers; underwriters; finance companies; private equity and hedge fund investors; and borrowers.
This expert has provided legal, advisory and consulting services to companies, financial institutions, state banking regulators and the federal government in emerging credit risk management techniques, developing "best practice" underwriting and due diligence guidelines and oversight procedures, bank mergers and acquisitions, special assets and work-outs, and developing regulatory compliant commercial lending policies, processes and procedures to meet financial crisis concerns and emerging laws and regulations.
This expert has served as an expert in cases involving lender liability, legal malpractice, mergers and acquisitions, complex public and commercial lending and leasing transactions, Whole Bank Acquisitions and Shared-Loss matters, fraud and gross negligence, creditor's rights, bankruptcy, and other matters requiring niche lending and contract expertise. Three of these cases were nationally recognized and several were cases of first impression.
This expert has also acted as an interim executive of several companies involved in turn-arounds including a real estate development company. This expert has assisted a number of companies financing efforts offshore and domestically including the capital raising efforts of approved EB5 Regional centers.
This expert has practiced law for many years for a number of law firms.
This expert has been a member of the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks, Turn Around Management Association, Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys, NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association, Commercial Finance Association, Association of Corporate Growth, Risk Management Association, a State Bankers Association, and a Development Counsel.
This expert has lectured and taught on a variety of topics, including lender liability; cross-border transactions; Sarbanes Oxley/FASB; Equipment Leasing; Factoring; Asset Based Lending; Ship Mortgages and finance; real estate development, special assets and creditors' rights; commercial loan documentation; and credit risk management in commercial loan portfolios and shared-loss compliance.
Start Legal Malpractice Expert SearchExpert Witness #257836
This nursing standard of care expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant leading a legal nurse consulting practice, with over 30 years of active nursing experience. This expert is a member of the clinical faculty at a university, teaching nursing students at the bedside rather than in the classroom. Specializing in nursing malpractice cases, this expert has experience quickly and accurately identifying breaches in the standards of care of licensed nurses and unlicensed nursing personnel. This expert can assist with explaining and defining the role of the nurse and determining how the standard of care was maintained or breached. This expert assists attorneys by identifying breaches in the standard of care, determining possible causation, breaking down records, and creating graphics and reports that show a decline in a patient's condition and where intervention was necessary.
This expert provides a wide range of services, including case screenings and reviews, verbal and written reports, chronologies, and topic research. This expert can assist in drafting notices of intent, affidavits of merit, and extrapolating data from medical records into an easily understandable document to emphasize important medical issues. This data can include medication administration, lab results, vital signs, patient positioning, and pain scores.
Start Legal Malpractice Expert SearchExpert Witness #262121
This business sale and legal representation expert is an attorney whose career, at prominent law firms and as an independent consultant and expert witness, has centered on financial transactions and their underlying documents. This expert has structured, negotiated, and drafted sales and loans secured by receivables and other assets, including assets ranging from real estate to aircraft.
This expert has over 50 expert witness and consultancy projects related to finance transactions. This expert has practiced law for many years and has drafted, negotiated, and reviewed numerous asset purchase agreements containing seller representations, and has experience with matters involving legal malpractice and failures to follow industry standards.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Legal Malpractice Expert SearchExpert Witness #275274
This mortgage broker expert has expertise in real estate and mortgage broker standard of care, custom and practice in real estate and mortgage banking, and legal malpractice involving business and real estate. This expert has taught law in real estate secured transactions and administrative law, held a senior legal affairs role with a real estate professional association, served as legal counsel to a real estate professional association, and participated in a real estate sales and brokerage steering committee within a state bar association.
This expert has testified numerous times as an expert witness in cases involving the interpretation of real estate documents, real estate and mortgage brokers' standard of care, and legal malpractice involving real estate, corporate finance, merger and acquisition, and legal ethics.
Start Legal Malpractice Expert SearchExpert Witness #279663
This dental implant materials expert is certified as a dental legal expert in Florida and has practiced periodontics, specifically implantology, for over 30 years. This expert's niche involves the surgical placement of implants and restorations in cases where treatment is performed in one day. This expert is familiar with all types of implants, including Zirconia implants and restorations, and has experience as an expert witness in dental malpractice matters.
Start Legal Malpractice Expert SearchExpert Witness #301550
This neurology expert has over 40 years of experience treating patients and teaching neurology at the graduate level, maintains private practice experience in neurology, and provides medical-legal expertise in matters involving medical malpractice, personal injury, insurance claims, neurology, and acupuncture.
This expert has cared for and evaluated many individuals with varying degrees of traumatic brain injury and has served as a neurology expert in many TBI legal cases, primarily for defense matters as well as plaintiff matters.
This expert provides unbiased, professional opinions, explains complicated medical procedures clearly and concisely, reviews technical medical data, and provides expert medical testimony as a neutral party.
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