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    Find a board-certified Specialist who provides expert witness testimony in one of these practice areas:

    Bankruptcy | Criminal | Estate & Trust | Family | Personal Injury and Wrongful Death | Real Estate | Tax Law | Workers Compensation

     

    BANKRUPTCY LAW CERTIFIED SPECIALISTS & EXPERT WITNESSES:

    Harold E. Campbell III, board-certified specialist since 1991; Bankruptcy expert witness

    James E. Cross, board-certified specialist since 1989; testified as an expert on matters of bankruptcy law, as an expert on the Standard of Care involving a malpractice claim arising in bankruptcy as well as to evaluate the reasonableness of a fee award in a bankruptcy case

    Franklin D. "Troy" Dodge, board-certified since 1994; testified as an expert on matters of bankruptcy law as an expert on the Standard of Care involving malpractice claims arising in bankruptcy

    Susan Freeman, board-certified specialist since 1987; Bankruptcy expert witness

    Lawrence D. Hirsch, board-certified specialist since 1990; Bankruptcy expert witness

    Randy Nussbaum, board-certified specialist since 1997; commercial bankruptcy expert witness; expert witness as to applicable Standard of Care in Chapter 13 debtor representation, reasonableness of fees in Chapter 11 Executory Contract representation, and Standard of Care in defending Stay Lift litigation.  He is also qualified to opine on Standard of Care for:  Exemption Planning;  Prosecuting and Defending Preference and Fraudulent Transfer litigation; Objection to Discharge and Dischargeability litigation; Bankruptcy Conflicts of Interest, Homestead Exemption litigation, Avoidance of Lien litigation

    Bradley D. Pack, board-certified specialist since 1995; Commercial Bankruptcy expert witness

     

    CRIMINAL LAW CERTIFIED SPECIALISTS & EXPERT WITNESSES:

    Robert Campos, board-certified specialist since 1995

    Clark Derrick, board-certified specialist since 1994 

    Bruce Feder, board-certified specialist since 1983 

    Vicki Lopez, board-certified specialist since 2008 

    Robert J. McWhirter, board-certified specialist since 2006

    Chad Eric Pajerski, board-certified specialist since 2010; 21 years of experience in criminal law

    Marc J. Victor, board-certified specialist since 2000; expert witness in Ineffective Assistance cases; 27 years of trial experience

     

    ESTATE & TRUST LAW CERTIFIED SPECIALISTS & EXPERT WITNESSES:

    Marlene Appel, board-certified specialist since 1999

    Roger D. Curley, board-certified specialist since 2002

    Robert B. Fleming, board-certified specialist since 1999

    Nora L. Jones, board-certified specialist since 2020; practice exclusively focused on probate and trust litigation and related elder law issues, including breach of fiduciary duty and standard of care matters; acting judge pro tempore for the Probate Court of the Maricopa County Superior Court

    Teresa Lancaster, board-certified specialist since 2014

    Les Raatz, board-certified specialist since 2019; Also board-certified in Tax law since 1991

    James W. Ryan, board-certified specialist since 1998

    Louis Silverman, board-certified specialist since 2015

    Michael J. Tucker, board-certified specialist since 2005

    Alan W. Wilson, board-certified specialist since 1998

    Mark Alan Wilson, board-certified specialist since 2015

    Craig Wisnom, board-certified specialist since 2001

     

    FAMILY LAW CERTIFIED SPECIALISTS & EXPERT WITNESSES:

    Keith Berkshire, board-certified specialist since 2011; testifying and consulting expert for family law and appellate legal malpractice, as well as for other family law issues; 27 published family law Opinions, including two at the Supreme Court of the United States

    Annette T. Burns, board-certified specialist since 1994; expert witness designation in 20+ cases

    Steven H. Everts, board-certified specialist since 1998; expert witness in family law cases or cases with family law issues; lead counsel and/or written the briefs in 67 appeals and special actions, including two at the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

    Angela K. Hallier, board-certified specialist since 1997

    Kathleen McCarthy, board-certified since 1992

    Susan Schauf, board-certified specialist since 2003

    Robert L Schwartz, board-certified specialist since 1992; testified as expert in Maricopa County Superior Court regarding family law malpractice/standards of practice/reasonableness of fees

    James Wees, board-certified since 2005; expert testimony on family law practice and attorney's fees in family law cases

     

    PERSONAL INJURY/WRONGFUL DEATH LAW CERTIFIED SPECIALISTS & EXPERT WITNESSES:

    Scott Ambrose, board-certified specialist since 2020; experience in personal injury, medical malpractice, legal standards, with an emphasis on litigation

    James R Broening, board-certified specialist since 1995; concentrating in medical malpractice

    Larry J Cohen, board-certified specialist since 1991; concentrating in brain injury, neurological injury, psychiatric/psychological injury

    Evan Goldstein, board-certified specialist since 1999; experienced in insurance bad faith, insurance coverage analysis, policy interpretation, claims analysis, personal injury and wrongful death

    Bradley Jardine, board-certified specialist since 1992; member, then Chair, of the State Bar of Arizona Board of Legal Specialization (2010-2020)

    Lisa M. Kimmel, board-certified specialist since 2020

    Paul McGoldrick, board-certified specialist since 1997

    Jeffrey Boyd Miller, board-certified specialist since 1999; expert testimony personal injury/wrongful death legal malpractice and case valuation; Also serves as Guardian ad litem

    Lloyd L. Rabb, III, board-certified specialist since 1994

    Joel Robbins, board-certified specialist since 1998

    Thomas J Shorall; board-certified specialist since 1999

    S. Jon Trachta, board-certified specialist since 1991

    Nicholas E Vakula, board-certified specialist since 1998

    Peter Wittekind, board-certified specialist since 2019

    Christopher J Zachar; board-certified specialist since 2004; 29 years as an Arizona trial lawyer

     

    REAL ESTATE LAW CERTIFIED SPECIALISTS & EXPERT WITNESSES:

    Andrew Abraham, board-certified specialist since 1990

    David R Baker, board-certified specialist since 1991

    Christopher Charles, board-certified specialist since 2014

    Robert Itkin, board-certified specialist since 1995

    Marc R Lieberman, board-certified specialist since 2001; expert testimony in legal malpractice arising from documentation of institutional investments

    Douglas G Martin, board-certified specialist since 1987

    Philippe Martinet, board-certified specialist since 2018

    Ari Ramras, board-certified specialist since 2007; expert witness specifically on title insurance and real estate litigation standard of care issues

    David E Shein, board-certified specialist since 2002; expert testimony in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including leasing and equity and debt financing transactions; offices in Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tucson

     

    TAX LAW CERTIFIED SPECIALISTS & EXPERT WITNESSES:

    Michael Galloway, board-certified specialist since 1997; expert witness regarding Arizona state tax and other tax matters

    Otto S Shill III, board-certified specialist since 2016; expert witness in tax matters

    Les Raatz, board-certified specialist in Tax Law since 1991; expert witness in Federal tax matters; Also board-certified in Estate & Trust law since 2019

    Richard Onsager, board-certified specialist since 1989; expert witness in tax matters

     

    WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW CERTIFIED SPECIALISTS & EXPERT WITNESSES:

    Robert Wisniewski, board-certified specialist since 1996; expert in workers compensation damages and bad faith; Testify on legal malpractice in workers compensation matters as to standard of care

    Kirk Barberich, board-certified specialist since 1998; expert witness providing workers compensation bad faith testimony; Practice has been limited to defending workers compensation claims for 30 years

    Don Fendon, board-certified specialist since 1979; expert witness in workers compensation matters

    Adam P Palmer, board-certified specialist since 2009; expert witness in workers' compensation matters including standard of care for legal malpractice and bad faith

    Javier Arturo Puig, board-certified specialist since 2013; expert witness in workers compensation matters