Utilities (Public) Expert Witnesses

Steven M. Murow has over 45 years of experience in the Land Development and Construction industry with expertise in Earthmoving, Site Development, Street Improvements, and Underground Utilities. 

During that time, Mr. Murow has served as a principal in two leading contracting firms; consultant to major land developers; specifier and bid administrator; senior project manager, and as an expert witness. 

Litigation Support - Over the past 20 years, Mr. Murow has supported developers, municipalities, builders, and contractors through their legal teams. He has a perspective on general engineering contracting unmatched by opposing experts in the field having been involved in the bidding of over 2,000 projects since 1978 and managing over 300 of those projects in the mass grading and site development arena as a principal owner of the firm. Mr. Murow has been deposed 70 times and testified in trial / arbitration 34 times. His expertise has been called upon in Dallas, Texas, Conway, Ark. and throughout California.

Areas of Expertise:

"DIRT, not civil engineering or geotechnical, but as a general engineering contractor performing the work and as a Construction Manager managing the work on projects up to 1,200 Acres and $50,000,000 in value. I can tell you how it was bid, should have been bid, where it went wrong, and cost to repair." - Steven M. Murow

Panorama Consulting Group specializes in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems and has multiple testifying experts for failed software litigation. This high-profile firm is called upon to investigate the feasibility of litigation, provide software expert witness testimony, and build background reporting for some of the industry’s highest-profile software lawsuits. They have worked with organizations ranging from multi-national conglomerates to boutique and large law firms, as well as state offices of the Attorney General.

As independent enterprise software experts, Panorama Consulting Group has hands-on experience with hundreds of software vendors. Their firm is not tied to a single law firm or software vendor, allowing them to focus on all types of clients and industries.

Litigation Support: The experts at Panorama Consulting Group work for both plaintiffs and defendants, software vendors and system integrators, and their customers. Their differentiator is using a team-based approach to provide expertise beyond just the testifying expert, which is cost-effective and efficient for their clients. They have multiple software expert witnesses available for provision of reports, depositions, and testimonies.

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Jamie Popp, PE, is the Owner and Principal Electrical Engineer of Popp Consulting LLC, with 15 years of experience in Electrical System Design, Forensic Engineering, and Engineer of Record Services. As an Engineer of Record, Mr. Popp designs and seals electrical construction documents for commercial, industrial, and petrochemical projects, including single-line diagrams, raceway routing layouts, power flow models, and system loading calculations.

Mr. Popp also performs hazardous area classification evaluations and design reviews for petrochemical and heavy industrial sites. This hands-on design work gives him direct insight into how electrical systems should be designed, installed, and maintained, and where they fall short. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in 21 states, including AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, HI, ID, IN, IA, ME, NV, NH, NC, OK, PA, TN, TX, UT, VT, WA, WI.

Litigation Support - Mr. Popp provides expert witness and litigation consulting on electrical engineering matters. He has consulted with counsel, reviewed case materials, prepared written expert reports, and given deposition testimony. His services include forensic investigations of electrical failures, code compliance audits, independent design and plan reviews, and evaluation of claims and technical disputes, grounded in the National Electrical Code and accepted engineering practice.

Mr. Popp's background spans commercial, industrial, petrochemical, nuclear, mining, and manufacturing facilities. At Jacobs Engineering he managed design, multi-discipline coordination, protection studies, and field commissioning of distribution and substation systems. As Principal Electrical Engineer at Hatch, and later as Senior Engineer at AllNorth, he directed multidisciplinary teams and electrical system integration at industrial, mining, and nuclear sites with strict safety and compliance requirements.

Mr. Popp holds an M.S. in Engineering and an M.S. in Project Management from the University of Wisconsin–Platteville, a B.A.S. in Business and Management from the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, and an A.A.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College.