Data Analytics / Data Visualization Expert Witnesses: 5

Joe Sremack, CFE, CISA,  is an expert in Enterprise IT Systems, Data Analysis, and Source Code Analysis and is a managing director in Kroll’s Data Insights and Forensics practice, based in the Los Angeles office. Joe leverages more than 20 years of data analytics and technology experience in assisting law firm, corporate, and government clients respond to large-scale data, software development, and enterprise systems issues. 

Joe brings a unique perspective and cutting-edge data solutions to assist his clients with dispute and investigation matters by incorporating advanced technologies and pragmatic solutions. His career encompasses advising clients on a variety of issues across various global jurisdictions where data and enterprise systems play a central role.These issues range from U.S. trade enforcement, securities litigation, consumer class action litigation, SEC/CFPB/FinCEN/CMS regulatory compliance and internal investigations. Joe is the author of Big Data Forensics and a frequent contributor to academic and commercial journals and conferences.

Litigation Support - Joe works with white collar, class action, and commercial litigation clients who are facing complex IT issues and issues involving large-scale, complex data questions. He has assisted clients across the US and over fifty countries. His services include thorough reporting, depositions, and trial testimony as needed.

Areas of Expertise:

Eric Forister, PhD, is an expert Economist with testifying experience on market definition, market power, and damages. His expertise includes applying advanced statistical techniques to datasets, synthesizing information from documents, and designing and evaluating surveys. A Senior Economist at Econ One, he focuses on relevant questions to tackle complex issues with an efficient and effective style of communication. Dr. Forister also has extensive experience consulting on issues including royalty rates, irreparable harm, sampling, survey design, common impact, and materiality.

Ideal Client Engagement: For litigation-related matters, an ideal engagement would be providing an opinion on economics, damages, market power, or market definition; or providing pre-litigation advice on the economics of potential claims, or the merits of a survey. For non-litigation matters, an ideal engagement would be helping to explain the economics of different business models or consulting to those considering buying or starting an optometry office.

Experience: Dr. Forister has acted in a support/consulting role on over 100 matters. His support work has been a mix of plaintiff and defense work. Dr. Forister has designed and evaluated surveys for IP and marketing cases and worked on a wide range of other matters, including:

• Antitrust - price fixing, exclusionary conduct, monopsony, unfair competition, Robinson-Patman
• Intellectual Property - SEP, FRAND, patents, trademark, irreparable harm
• Marketing - false advertising, product labeling
• General Damages - breach of contract, bankruptcy

Education/Training:

• PhD in Business Administration (Field: Economics), Stanford Graduate School of Business
• BS in Mathematics / Economics, University of California at Los Angeles, magna cum laude

View Dr. Forister's Consulting Profile.

Mark McFarland, PE, DFE, is a licensed and Board certified electrical and telecommunications engineer.  He provides expert consulting for plaintiff and defense counsel on civil and criminal cases nationwide. 

Mark's practice covers a wide range of cases, typically involving electrical, electronic, software, cellular, GPS, and telecommunications evidence. He has worked with lawyers in several fields including: wrongful death, personal injury, product liability, securities fraud, homicide, sex trafficking, medical malpractice, class action, insurance claims, patent litigation, contract disputes, and more.

Mark has worked dozens of cases and testified in court for civil and criminal trials. 

Many of the cases he's worked have settled on his expert report.

Contact Mark at Discovery Engineering when you have litigation involving electrical, electronic, software, cellular, or GPS evidence.  Licensed & Board Certified.  720-593-1640

For more information, please give me a call or visit my website.  

Have a fantastic day!    

CyberTruth, LLC is a full-service Digital Forensics expert witness consultancy that provides services primarily to law firms in both civil and criminal defense cases. They provide analysis, reporting and testimony in cases involving a wide range of Digital Devices and Cloud Services, as well as Audio and Video Evidence Analysis. 

John H. Morris, Esq., Owner and Principal Analyst at CyberTruth, has over 40 years of experience in technology, including 17 years at Microsoft in a variety of technical services roles. Mr. Morris left Microsoft to open Nashville Vanguard Law and, later, CyberTruth, allowing him to focus on working with those who needed his expertise most. 

Mr. Morris is licensed to practice in the Tennessee state courts, admitted to practice in the Middle District Tennessee Federal Court, pending admission to Eastern District Tennessee Federal Court, as well as admitted Pro Hac Vice to the Southern District of New York Federal Court. He is a current member of the Tennessee Bar Association (TBA), Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (TACDL), Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association (TTLA), and American Society of Digital Forensics and eDiscovery.

Litigation Support - Mr. Morris works with criminal defense attorneys, civil litigators, divorce attorneys, and select Individuals. He has provided analysis, expert reports, and testimony in hundreds of cases and can provide numerous references as to the results. 

Depending on the case, Mr. Morris serves as a forensic expert with years of experience in finding digital evidence others have tried to hide, an expert witness able to reinforce or disprove forensic practices and results, an assisting attorney for lead attorneys in need of a technology-oriented second chair, or as a provider of eDiscovery for small and midsized firms otherwise unable budget for such services.

Areas of Expertise:

• Audio / Video Forensics - CCTV, traffic cameras, teller machines, police cameras, and cell phones; Digital media authentication, Exif (Exchangeable Image File Format) analysis for audio and video files, Forensic data analysis and interpretation, Media conversion, Recovery of deleted or corrupted data, Audio / video editing, Demonstrative exhibit creation
• Cell Phone Forensics - Contacts, Photos, Calendars, Notes, SMS and MMS messages, Video, Email, Web browsing information, Location information, Social networking messages, Social networking contacts
• Cellular Technology / Tracking - Navigation data analyzed for position and location to forensically reconstruct traveled path
• Cloud Forensics - Locating, identifying, and separating suspected or compromised data for OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, iCoud, Sharepoint, iDrive
• Computer Forensics / eDiscovery - Identify, collect, examine, and preserve evidence stored on digital media including E-mail, Activity logs, Correspondence, User documents, Internet activity, Browser history, Computer backups, Email archives, Wifi history, Hard drives, Recovery of deleted data, Intrusion detection, Spyware detection, Malware detection
• IoT Forensics - Electronic devices including gaming consoles Home automation (Alexa, Simplisafe, Ring, etc), Fitness trackers, Automotive, Infotainment, Office equipment, Database analysis
• Social Media Forensics - Analysis of platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Discord, Reddit, Match, Tinder, LinkedIn Signal, What's App, Periscope, MeWe, Tumblr, YouTube, Snapchat, and more.

Jessie Stricchiola has over 23 years of experience in the fields of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Digital Marketing, and  Internet Technologies. She is the founder of Alchemist Media, Inc., a digital marketing consultancy launched in 2002 that provides various internet and search engine marketing consulting services, including SEO, website development, web analytics, and digital marketing strategies.

Ms. Stricchiola began studying search algorithms and digital information discoverability in 1997, and was first employed as a full-time search engine optimization (SEO) specialist in 1998. She is co-author of The Art of SEO, (O’Reilly Media, 1st Ed. 2009, 2nd Ed. 2012, 3rd Ed. 2015, 4th Ed, 2022), a treatise on the practice of SEO that has been used as required or recommended reading in courses at Georgetown University, USC, UCLA, UCSD, UC Davis, the University of Wisconsin, Syracuse University, the University of Mumbai, the City University of Hong Kong, and others.  

Ms. Stricchiola has been a presenter and/or moderator at various search engine and internet industry conferences since 2002, including Ad:tech, O'Reilly's Web 2.0, Pubcon, Shop.org, FOO Camp (O’Reilly), Search Engine Strategies, Search Marketing Expo (SMX), and others.  She is credited with having been the first to identify Click Fraud in the PPC (pay per click) industry in 2001. Her work on this issue has been featured in numerous media outlets, including NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired.com, CNN Money, and in The Google Story (First Edition, David a. Vise).

Litigation Support - Jessie Stricchiola has been qualified as an Internet Discoverability, Web Analytics, and Search Engine Optimization Subject Matter Expert in two US Federal District Courts, the Federal Court of Canada, and various California Superior Courts. Her services include pre-file case evaluation and research, expert consultant (non-testifying) engagements, and expert witness testimony at deposition and trial including claims construction and related testimony for patent litigation. CV available upon request

Parties to Litigation: U.S. Government, Uber Technologies Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Dyson Technologies, Inc., IHG Hotels & Resorts, FremantleMedia, and others.

Areas of Expertise:

 View Alchemist Media Inc.'s Consulting Profile.