Apparel: Mr. Sarabia can provide expert testimony and analysis about Contracts, Manufacturing (local, abroad), Import, Export, Sales, Distribution, Similarity of Apparel Lines and Protection of Designs.

Licensing: More than 25 years of experience in consumer licensing: international and domestic licensing including revenue projections, monitoring of licensees, standards of the industry, performance and breaches. He was an expert in licensing for the Vatican, Converse and Jones Apparel.

Trademarks: registration, secondary meaning, infringement, dilution, searches, investigations, due diligence, trade dress and counterfeiting.

Copyrights: originality and substantial similarity of copyrights.

Design patents: defenses based on lack on originality, identify and analyze obviousness and prior art

Standards of Practice of Apparel Business Lawyers, Intellectual Property Lawyers and Licensing Lawyers: Based on his 25 years of in depth experience as a lawyer in the apparel business and with intellectual property and licensing law, Mr. Sarabia can provide expert opinions as to the standard of care of lawyers

Alvin Mathews is a member of the Bricker & Eckler litigation group with a Civil Litigation and Administrative Practice. Mr. Mathews spends a great deal of time providing preventive consultation and advisory opinions to Ohio lawyers, including solo practitioners, law firms, in-house counsel and governmental lawyers on Legal Ethics Issues, defense of lawyer discipline complaints and on various litigation matters. He also provides expert witness opinions on lawyer professional conduct issues in litigation. Mr. Mathews represents businesses and individual licensees in litigation before administrative agencies, state professional licensing boards and courts.

Areas of Practice Include:

• Conflict of Interest Analyses
• Ex-Parte Contact with Current or Former Employees
• Client-Lawyer Confidentiality Issues
• False Testimony
• Document Preservation / Destruction Issues
• Sarbanes-Oxley Issues of Legal Compliance
• Responsibilities when Lawyers Change Firms
• Terminated Representation
• Multi-Jurisdictional Practice Issues
• File Maintenance / Destruction Issues
• Fee / Engagement Disputes
• Malicious Prosecution / Abuse of Process
• Unauthorized Practice of Law Representation

William G. Ross is a nationally-recognized expert on the Ethics of Legal Fees. He is the author of two books on attorney billing issues, The Honest Hour: The Ethics of Time-Based Billing by Attorneys (Carolina Academic Press, 1996) and Legal Fees: Law and Practice (with John W. Toothman, Carolina Academic Press, 2003), as well as numerous articles.

Professor Ross’s work in this field has been recognized in various publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The ABA Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and U. S. News and World Report. He often serves an consultant and expert witness on issues concerning legal fees. He also consults on judicial ethics, a subject on which he has published various scholarly articles.

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San Diego attorney James E. King is regularly called upon to serve as an expert witness in trials in California, and has provided those services, as well as fee arbitration, in five counties. He has qualified and testified, even over opposition in the following areas:

Dr. Linsey C. Willis, SPHR has over 29 years of experience in the Human Resources and Management Consulting Field. Her services include management / employee selection processes, management tools design, training and development and expert witness services. She is the founder and president of L.J. CRAIG & Associates Inc. and has been a management and organizational consultant for public safety agencies, companies, not-for-profit organizations, and educational institutions since 1988.

Dr. Willis frequently speaks at national and international conferences on pertinent topics. She is a member of several professional associations, including the Society of Human Resource Management.

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Phillip Feldman B.S., M.B.A., J.D., A.V. (310) LEG MALP (534-6257)

• Former Judge Pro Tem
• Arbitrating Fee Disputes 31 years
• 41 years legal malpractice litigation & transactions
• 29 years testifying as a legal malpractice expert
• Any transaction or litigation matter, plaintiff or defense, any state or federal court or arbitration
• Standard of Care, Rules of Professional Conduct, DR's EC's ethics, conflicts, competent lawyering, lawyer duties), Causation, informed consent, fiduciary duties, reasonableness of fees etc

Howard Garfield has over 25 years of experience in Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith. He has qualified and testified in state and federal courts as bad faith expert. Mr. Garfield graduated from JD Harvard Law School, and AB Stanford with great Distinction. He has been admitted into the California Bar, U.S. Supreme Ct, as well as all Federal courts in California and elsewhere.

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Sherry Michael is a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant with over 15 years of experience. As the medical insider on your litigation team, our CLNC will review, analyze and provide expert witnesses to give your law firm the competive medical edge. Use our CLNC to discover the hidden secrets in your medical related cases!

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Professor Leonard Gross has been a member of the School of Law Faculty at Southern Illinois University since 1983, first as an Assistant Professor and later as an Associate Professor before becoming a Professor of Law in 1993. His specialty is legal ethics. He teaches legal ethics at Southern Illinois University and as a visiting professor at Washington University In St. Louis.

He received his J.D., Magna cum laude, from Boston University School of Law in 1976.

Before coming to SIU, Professor Gross clerked for Judge Frederick L. Brown of the Massachusetts Appeals Court from 1976 to 1977 and practiced corporate litigation with the New York City law firm of Shearman & Sterling from 1977 to 1983.

He has testified for the plaintiff and defendant on legal ethics matters, and also consults with attorneys related to ethics.

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