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Tony holds a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and is licensed as a Professional Engineer in 14 states, with the additional Structural Engineer (S.E.) designation in California, Illinois, and Washington. For 34 years he has conducted forensic investigations of building failures, hurricane and earthquake damage, construction defects, and post-loss disputes for commercial owners, contractors, sureties, and insurers — including post-event investigations of every major U.S. hurricane from Andrew to Ian. Tony has authored 22 peer-reviewed papers and is past chair of ASCE's Forensic Engineering Division.
Margaret has served as a testifying expert in over 80 construction delay matters across federal and state courts, AAA construction arbitrations, and U.S. Court of Federal Claims proceedings. A licensed Professional Engineer in eight states, she holds AACE International's Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) certification and is past chair of the AACE Forensic Scheduling Committee. Prior to consulting full-time she led the construction services group at a top-50 ENR design-build firm, overseeing CPM schedules on more than $4B in airports, healthcare, and federal infrastructure projects. Her forensic methodology emphasizes contemporaneous time-impact analysis (TIA), windows analysis, and as-built but-for techniques.
80+ retained matters · 35 depositions · 12 trials · federal court, state court, AAA, ICC
Jim is a CPA Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) and Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF), with 26 years of testifying experience in commercial damages, lost profits, business valuation, and forensic investigations. He has been retained in matters totaling more than $9B in claimed damages, including Fortune 500 contract disputes, shareholder oppression cases, healthcare reimbursement litigation, and post-acquisition working-capital disputes. Earlier in his career he spent twelve years in the dispute advisory practice at a Big Four firm, ultimately leading their financial services litigation group in the Northeast. He is a frequent CLE speaker and has authored chapters on lost profits methodology in two industry texts.
Larry is a retired senior contracting officer with over three decades of DoD and federal civilian acquisition experience. Provides opinions on FAR/DFARS compliance, REA / claims under the Contract Disputes Act, bid protests before the GAO, and termination-for-default / termination-for-convenience disputes. Has supported both contractor-side and government-side counsel.
48 engagements · 19 depositions · 6 trials · ASBCA, CBCA, Court of Federal Claims, federal district
Greg is a Diplomate of Geotechnical Engineering (D.GE) with 33 years of experience in foundation design, retaining-wall failures, slope-stability analysis, and excavation-shoring disputes. He has provided forensic opinions on more than 90 geotechnical matters across the Mid-Atlantic, including foundation-distress litigation, soil-bearing capacity disputes, and lateral-earth-pressure damage to adjacent structures.
Construction Defect & Architectural Standard of Care
San Francisco, CA 32 yrs experience
AIA · NCARB · LEED AP BD+C
Robert is a licensed architect in California, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii, and a former design partner at two AIA Top-100 firms. His forensic practice focuses on architectural standard of care, design defect, code-compliance review, and constructability disputes in mixed-use, hospitality, multifamily, and curtain-wall envelope matters along the West Coast. He has been engaged on more than 60 design-defect actions, with extensive Title 24 and seismic-retrofit experience.
Walter has served as a retained safety expert in over 65 personal-injury, wrongful-death, and OSHA-citation cases — covering scaffolding collapse, fall-protection failures, trenching, struck-by/caught-between incidents, and lockout-tagout deviations. Former OSHA-authorized trainer with extensive ANSI/ASSE standards experience.
65 engagements · 28 depositions · 9 trials · federal, MO, IL, IA
Bernard provides independent expert estimates of change-order pricing reasonableness, cost-to-complete valuations, and value-of-work-in-place quantifications. Three decades of unit-pricing and crew-productivity data across industrial, commercial, and federal sectors. Frequently retained to rebut inflated contractor claims.
53 engagements · 24 depositions · 7 trials · IN, OH, IL, federal
Richard is a licensed civil engineer specializing in site development, stormwater systems, grading, and utility-infrastructure disputes. He has been retained as an expert in soil-stabilization failures, retention-pond failures, and site-civil scope-of-work disputes throughout the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia. Richard previously led the land-development practice of an ENR Top-200 engineering firm.
Ed offers contractor-operations standard-of-care opinions on commercial office tower, retail center, hotel, and ground-up corporate-campus projects. Frequently retained on subcontractor coordination, RFI/submittal handling, and supplemental-conditions disputes. Two decades in C-suite GC roles.
Frank is among the most widely retained roofing-defect experts in the Mountain West, with RCI/IIBEC registrations as Registered Roof Consultant (RRC), Roof Observer (RRO), and Exterior Wall Consultant (REWC). His investigations cover low-slope and steep-slope failure analysis, hail and wind damage, manufacturer-specification compliance, and post-installation contractor workmanship. Frank has performed forensic roof investigations on more than 1,200 buildings and is frequently retained by insurance defense panels and condominium associations.
David spent 22 years in general contracting operations leadership, including roles as VP of Operations and Regional President at two ENR Top-100 builders, before founding his consulting practice. He provides expert opinions on contractor standard of care, project management practices, means-and-methods disputes, jobsite safety, and subcontractor coordination. He has testified in delay, defect, and personal-injury construction matters across the Southwest and Mountain West.
Victor leads CPM scheduling engagements on petrochemical, transmission, and federal infrastructure projects exceeding $1B in contract value. Provides expert opinions on prospective and retrospective scheduling, baseline reasonableness, and acceleration / extension-of-time entitlement.
Henry is a mechanical and electrical engineering expert with deep experience in construction contract administration, including bid-protest analysis, change-order pricing, RFI/submittal management, and design-build dispute resolution. He has served as owner's engineer or contract-administration consultant on more than $5B of federal, GSA, and military construction. He provides expert opinions on the standard of care for both owners and contractors.
42 engagements · 22 depositions · 7 trials · GAO, Court of Federal Claims, federal district
Nate provides quantification of lost profits, business interruption, and economic damages in commercial litigation. Concentrations include franchise-termination disputes, partnership dissolutions, and post-acquisition working-capital and earnout disagreements. Trial experience in federal and state courts across the Southeast. Sharp at attacking opposing-expert methodologies (Daubert-readiness).
Daniel provides architectural standard-of-care opinions on multifamily, podium, and mixed-use defect actions throughout the West Coast. Deep familiarity with SB 800 (California Right to Repair Act) and Right-to-Cure pre-litigation timelines. Has reviewed more than 300 sets of construction documents for design-defect attribution.
Michael spent 18 years in supply-chain leadership at two Fortune 100 aerospace and consumer-goods companies before founding his litigation-support practice. He provides opinions on supply-chain standard of practice, supplier-delivery disputes, force majeure analysis, and inventory-loss damages — and has been frequently retained in pandemic-era disruption matters. He has performed root-cause analyses on more than 200 supply-chain failures.
Patricia is a licensed civil engineer and Certified Construction Manager with 24 years of experience leading owner's representative engagements on healthcare, life-sciences, and higher-education projects across New England and the Mid-Atlantic. As a litigation consultant she has prepared cost-to-complete analyses, change-order damage quantifications, and standard-of-care opinions for both plaintiffs and defendants. She is a regular invited speaker for AGC and DBIA on integrated project delivery and design-build dispute prevention.
32 retained engagements · 14 depositions · 6 trials · AAA, MA Superior, federal
Cameron provides expert opinions on stormwater detention, erosion-and-sediment control, utility relocation, and site-grading disputes for industrial parks, distribution centers, and large-format retail. Has supported environmental and adjacent-property damage litigation involving subsurface drainage failures.
34 engagements · 14 depositions · 4 trials · OH, IN, KY, MI
Howard advises owners, EPC contractors, and sureties on prospective scheduling, delay attribution, and concurrent-delay analysis on commercial and industrial mega-projects. He has prepared expert reports and rebuttals in over 50 matters, with particular depth in pharmaceutical manufacturing and data center construction. Howard was previously Director of Project Controls at a top-25 U.S. general contractor where he oversaw schedules on more than $2.8B of active work.
50+ engagements · deposed 22 times · trial / arbitration testimony in IL, TX, NY, federal
Karen advises in disputes involving commercial-operations standard of practice, contract performance, vendor-management oversight, and government-contracts compliance. Her expert opinions are routinely requested in federal contracting, healthcare-services, and IT-staffing disputes. Karen previously served as VP of Commercial Operations at a publicly traded government-services firm with $1.2B in annual revenue.
Sandra is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) with expertise in business valuation for shareholder disputes, marital dissolution, M&A breach-of-contract litigation, and commercial damages quantification. She has valued more than 600 closely-held businesses across the energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors. She is past Chair of the ASA Business Valuation Committee for the Rocky Mountain Region and a frequent CLE speaker on valuation methodology.
Marcus advises plaintiffs and defense panels on water-intrusion, stucco-system, window-flashing, and waterproofing-membrane failures across multifamily, hospitality, and condominium developments. Strong subject-matter depth in Florida coastal envelopes, wind-driven rain, and Chapter 558 pre-suit procedures. Attorney-focused: he writes opinions designed to be cross-examination-ready and pairs forensic testing protocols with quantified repair cost analyses.
Caroline holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University and is a Certified Valuation Analyst. Her practice focuses on quantification of economic damages in complex commercial disputes — including lost profits, business interruption, market-share loss, and international trade matters. She has provided expert opinions in disputes involving Latin American counterparties and is fluent in Spanish-language proceedings. She is a frequent contributor to economic damages chapters in The Litigator's Handbook.
Helena provides standard-of-practice opinions on owner's representative engagements, hotel and casino projects, and Gulf Coast hurricane-restoration disputes. Trained as a construction lawyer's collaborator — produces concise, well-structured opinion letters and reliable rebuttal reports.
Lillian is a former general counsel and Chief Procurement Officer with 20 years of experience in commercial contracting, sourcing, and supplier-relationship governance. Her opinions cover procurement standard of practice, contract interpretation, UCC matters, and industry custom — particularly for Fortune 500 indirect-spend, IT, and professional-services agreements. She lectures on commercial contracts at the Kellogg School of Management.
Tom is a Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Public Accountant whose practice focuses on lost-profits damages, mitigation analysis, and intellectual-property economic harm. He has been retained in IP, patent infringement, trade-secret, and franchise-termination matters and has testified in federal courts in TX, CA, NY, and DE. Tom previously served as a vice president in the dispute services practice of a national accounting firm.
Elena leads complex forensic investigations involving construction fraud, bid-rigging, kickback schemes, public-works compliance, and federal-contract irregularities. A former federal forensic accountant, she has supported government and private investigations totaling over $400M in identified fraud. Her testimony is frequently sought by both plaintiff and defense counsel in white-collar and qui tam matters.
24 engagements · 10 depositions · 3 trials · federal, CA state
Sophia investigates curtain-wall, glazing, and air-barrier failures in commercial office, hospital, and higher-ed projects. Frequently retained for opinions on means-and-methods deviations from manufacturer specifications and ASTM water/air infiltration testing. Practical attorney-facing communicator with clean, exhibit-ready damage quantifications.
21 engagements · 8 depositions · 2 trials · MN, WI, IL state
Yvonne provides standard-of-care opinions on jobsite safety programs, fall-protection plans, multi-employer worksite responsibility doctrine, and OSHA recordkeeping disputes. Experienced in New York Labor Law 240/241 ("Scaffold Law") litigation across NYC and upstate jurisdictions.
Olivia performs forensic investigations of post-tension and conventionally reinforced concrete-frame distress, masonry crack patterns, and structural-steel connection failures. Practical opinions for both plaintiff and defense; particularly strong on differential settlement and superload-related damage.
22 engagements · 9 depositions · 2 trials · PA, NJ, DE, federal
Vanessa provides expert opinions on commercial-item contracting under FAR Part 12, GSA Multiple Award Schedule disputes, small-business set-aside compliance, and OCI (organizational conflict of interest) analyses. Former federal acquisition counsel; clean, jury-ready written opinions backed by traceable FAR / DFARS citations.
21 engagements · 8 depositions · 2 trials · ASBCA, federal district
Ben performs windows analysis, contemporaneous-period analysis, and as-built but-for delay studies on industrial, healthcare, and federal projects. Known for clear, jury-comprehensible TIA exhibits and rigorous critical-path documentation. Frequently retained as a rebuttal expert on time-impact analyses prepared by opposing counsel.
Priya specializes in highway, roadway, and intersection design disputes — including sight-distance, signage and pavement-marking standard-of-care, and ADA right-of-way accessibility. Substantial DOT-side experience across the Southwest. Excellent on technical visualization and exhibit preparation.
PSP · Primavera P6 Certified · MS Project Certified
Theresa prepares fact-witness and expert-level schedule narratives, performs concurrent-delay separation, and authors clear plain-English summaries of contractor-vs-owner delay attribution. Comfortable testifying on schedule logic ties, lag use, and out-of-sequence work. Strong communicator with non-technical juries.
19 engagements · 7 depositions · 2 trials · NC, SC, VA, federal
Anaya specializes in delay attribution for renewable-energy EPC contracts, complex MEP systems coordination disputes, and large-format public-works projects. Strong technical foundation in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project schedule integrity audits, float consumption, and DCMA-14 metrics assessments.
17 engagements · 6 depositions · 1 trial · CA, NV, federal
