Defamation Expert Witnesses: 2

Shannon M. Wilkinson, CEO of Reputation Communications, is a nationally recognized expert in Online Reputation Management. Her New York City-based firm advises clients on all aspects of reputation management. As a commentator for The Wall Street Journal, her analysis of how leading corporations are managing their crises have focused on Equifax, NBC, Ohio State University, Purdue Pharma, Sanofi, UBER, and others. She has been quoted in Consumer Reports, Huffington Post, USA Today and the NBC Today Show.

Founded in 2009, Reputation Communications was one of the first companies to specialize in online reputation management. It is the only online reputation management firm to specialize in the needs of influencers: individuals with newsworthy or industry-wide impact in business, politics, or social issues. Ms. Wilkinson’s thought-leadership has attracted interviews with many media outlets on issues relating to reputation management, celebrity and corporation scandals, and other crises.

Ms. Wilkinson leads a team of U.S.-based content creators, digital designers, IT and SEO specialists and social media managers to perform client work. Reputation Communications partners with Carrie Chatterson Studio to develop optimized, SEO-rich personal branding campaigns. Ms. Wilkinson has resolved reputation issues for Forbes 400 philanthropists, Fortune 500 leaders, Investment, FinTech & financial services firms, Silicon Valley tech founders and others.

Litigation Support: Shannon Wilkinson serves as an expert witness for legal cases related to Reputation Issues. She offers services to attorneys representing plaintiff and defendant which include thorough investigation, deposition, and trial testimony as needed.

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Reasoning, Inc. provides expert testimony for trademarks, defamation, authorship attribution, and communicative malpractice related to faulty tests and surveys. Reasoning is a group of doctoral-level linguists and logicians with superior understanding of all aspects of language. We do linguistic and logical analyses of publications, newspapers, books, letters, interviews, advertisements, manuals, contracts--to identify meanings, inferences, innuendoes, bias, actual malice, damage to reputation, similarity to other documents, copyright infringement, plagiarism, breach of contract, authorship, and fraud.

As a specialist in educational testing, Dr. Habick provides expert testimony on educational practices related to fairness, bias, psychometrics, and flawed test questions or testing programs. He provides Linguistic Analysis of news reports and other communications and in the assessment of Violations of Legal, Ethical, and Professional Standards.

Dr. Habick testified as an expert witness in linguistics in the U.S. District Court, Trenton, in The United States of America v. Tyshon Bey. Dr. Habick performed linguistic analyses on defamation and trademark cases for Pisanelli-Bice, Las Vegas; Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, Tampa; Seed Intellectual Property Law Group, Seattle, and Perkins Coie, Seattle.

Reasoning, Inc. also provided expert testimony on unfair testing, grading, and educational practices for Seals v. State of Mississippi et al.

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Professional Affiliations
American Dialect Society (ADS)
International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL)