Furniture Design Expert Witnesses: 3

J. Robert Bazemore is a Furniture, Product, and Interior Designer with more than 40 years of professional experience in the design, development, manufacturing, specification, installation, and field performance of furniture and interior products. As Principal of J. Robert Bazemore Designs, Inc. since 2002, he has designed and developed hundreds of products and environments for commercial, hospitality, healthcare, institutional, workplace, retail, and residential applications.

Litigation Support - Ideal clients include law firms, insurance carriers, manufacturers, property owners, and other parties requiring independent analysis of Product Liability or Premises Liability matters involving furniture and interior components. He accepts engagements from both plaintiff and defense counsel. The ideal engagement allows for early involvement, a clearly defined scope, preservation of the subject product, access to relevant drawings, specifications, photographs, maintenance records, and discovery materials, and an opportunity to conduct a site or product inspection when appropriate.

Areas of Expertise:

Mr. Bazemore's background combines design leadership with extensive practical experience coordinating engineers, manufacturers, fabricators, suppliers, installers, and end users. His products have been manufactured and marketed by nationally recognized contract-furniture companies. His work has received Best of NeoCon Gold, NeoCon Editors’ Choice, and other industry honors.

Mr. Bazemore also served as a Professor of Furniture Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design from 2009 through 2017. His combination of design expertise, manufacturing knowledge, and field experience allows him to identify and explain complex product and interior-environment issues in clear, practical terms.

Leonard J. Backer has over 28 years of extensive and successful Seating, Tables and  Furniture Industry experience in all key areas. Mr. Backer has been directly involved in the design and development of 250+ seating and table collections. He specializes in Private Label Manufacturing, Sourcing, and Product Development expertise. Mr. Backer provides aggressive Expert Witness and Litigation Support services to attorneys, insurers and businesses for Plaintiff or Defense. He performs site inspections, detailed product reviews and incident analyses. He has worked with law firms and insurance companies to develop and coordinate strategies for various types of legal actions and lawsuits. Very strong hospitality background. Mr. Backer has extensive experience with hotel, restaurant, cruise ship, retail store and senior living incidents. Personal Injury and Product Liability Cases. He provides detailed analyses, written opinions, and expert witness reports for clients throughout the U.S. Strong proven deposition and court testimony. Areas of Expertise:

View Leonard Backer's Consulting Profile.

• BACKGROUND:

40+ years' experience including in product design, product development, and manufacturing in consumer, medical, and industrial product markets. Product innovation part-time academic since 2009, public speaker since 1985. Certified New Product Development Professional (NPDP) since 2008 by the Product Development and Management Association. Member of: Society of Plastics Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, American Society for Quality. Expert witness services to Product Liability, Intellectual Property, and Commercial Dispute litigators.

• PRODUCT LIABILTY EXPERTISE:

Retained by both plaintiff and defense counsel. Specialize in personal injury cases involving product defects, manufacturing defects, product safety, engineering design, mechanical failures, material failures, product quality assurance, and foreseeable misuse. 

• CASE EXAMPLES:

• Retained in cases involving 3M, Honeywell, Clorox, Ace Hardware, and others. 
• 3M Combat Arms earplug case, retained by two plaintiff firms. More at, https://bit.ly/Forbes-on-3M Daubert ruling at, https://bit.ly/EPR-3MEP-Daubert (Page 98). Two depositions. (Plaintiff) 
• Furniture review of the state of competitive product safety, mechanisms, warnings. Counsel represented major insurance company. Settled after report. (Defense) 
• N95 mask commercial dispute, settled after report. (Plaintiff) 
• Consumer electronics patent infringement, settled after report. (Defense) 

• MORE INFO AT:

Expert witness services offered can be seen at, https://bit.ly/PDEWS Preferred contact: eric@pinnaclepi.com

Content above is a selection of work, current case history available upon request. Expert witness testimonials at, https://bit.ly/EPR-EWT

• EXPERT WITNESS PODCAST INTERVIEW