Commerce / E-Commerce Expert Witnesses

Jonathan E. Hochman, PhD, is an experienced testifying expert specializing in Internet Marketing, SEO, Online Advertising, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Digital Forensics, e-commerce, and Website Technology. He brings more than 35 years of technical experience together with extensive deposition and trial experience.

Litigation Support - Dr. Hochman helps law firms investigate, analyze, and explain complex issues involving Internet technology, digital evidence, and online business practices. Since 2007, he has served as an expert in hundreds of matters involving trademarks, patents, trade secrets, copyright, contracts, defamation, unfair competition, fraud, and online tracking. Dr. Hochman has testified in 24 trials and more than 70 depositions. He is available to both plaintiffs and defendants in significant disputes requiring sophisticated technical analysis and experienced expert testimony. 

Dr. Hochman earned his B.Sc./M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University, where he studied computer science. After completing his doctorate, he continued his work at Yale faculty as a lecturer and research affiliate. His academic training provided the foundation for more than 35 years of work in software engineering, Internet technology, cybersecurity, privacy, digital identity, and data analysis.

David Peterson, is a well-recognized ebanking pioneer, with a national reputation as a subject matter expert in Financial Technologies and Electronic Payments. As expert witness - 39 years experience in banking technology, 36 years experience in payments, 29 years experience with internet/online banking, 27 years experience in correspondent banking.

Provides expert witness services in correspondent banking, payments and electronic banking. Founder of Goldleaf Technologies. Member National Speakers Assoc. Board member of PaymentsFirst (Regional Payments Association serving FIs in the Southeastern U.S.) Atlanta GA, ArgosRisk, Minneapolis, MN, and softgiving Atlanta, GA.  Chief Innovation Officer of First National Bankers Bank Baton Rouge LA. Extremely qualified in electronic banking, payments and general banking operations. Self-motivated and will take necessary initiative for investigations, with direction from retaining counsel. Experience with expert reports, depositions and trial testimony.

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Bruce Weiner has worked in technology, product development, and software engineering since 1988, applying industry-standard design, testing, and post-deployment evaluation methods to determine whether technology products and features achieve their stated objectives.

Through Weiner.net LLC, he has been retained in 30+ matters since 2011 across U.S. District Courts, PTAB, state courts, arbitration, and administrative proceedings — retained by both plaintiff and defense counsel. 10+ depositions, with live testimony experience. Expert declarations cited by name in Federal Circuit opinion, 986 F.3d 1367.

Representative matters span gig-economy platform governance, airline and loyalty-program technology, e-commerce and affiliate systems, banking software, AI governance and AI-weighted model evaluation, source code / technical analysis, SDLC/PDLC governance, and billing substantiation. Opinions are anchored to ISO/IEC 12207, ISO/IEC 25010, IEEE 730, ISO/IEC 42001, and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.

Beyond litigation, he is an at-the-table technical advisor in labor negotiations, including CBA development under NMB mediation.

Since 2012, progressive technology leadership roles at a large financial services institution, most recently Vice President and Chief Product Owner. Princeton BSE, Magna Cum Laude. ACM and IEEE member. Named inventor, U.S. Patent 7,203,734. A-CSPO, CAL 1. Federal Top Secret Security Clearance — DCSA Tier 5 (Active).