Corporate Law Specialty Expert Witnesses: 3

Attorney, Lawrence H. Jacobson, has been practicing in the area of Real Estate Transaction Law and Litigation for more than 50 years. Over the past 30 years, he has been sought out as an expert witness in real estate and legal malpractice disputes and lawsuits in litigation cases throughout the country. 

His firm, The Law Offices of Lawrence H. Jacobson, A Professional Corporation, is recognized as one of the nation's premier offices providing expert testimony in litigation involving all Real Estate Matters and Legal Malpractice. 

Mr. Jacobson has been engaged in the practice of law in Los Angeles since 1968. Formerly Vice President of Legal Affairs for the California Association of Realtors, Mr. Jacobson has served as a judge pro tem for the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills Municipal Court Systems and as an adjunct professor of law focusing on real estate secured transactions and administrative law. He is Past President of the Beverly Hills Bar Association. He has written and lectured extensively on business and real estate related matters. He has served on the faculty of the Graduate Realtors Institute of the California Association of Realtors and a lecturer author for the California Continuing Education of the California Bar.

Litigation Support - Mr. Jacobson offers an impressive record of success as an expert witness in real estate, business, and finance. Included among the numerous cases in which he has testified as an expert witness are disputes over the interpretation of real estate documents, real estate and mortgage brokers’ standard of care and legal malpractice related to real estate transactions and business law including issues involved in corporate finance, merger and acquisition and ethics.

Areas of Expertise:

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Jacob Rebo is an AI governance attorney and expert witness who brings an uncommon combination to the standard of care for artificial intelligence: the law of a JD, the business judgment of an MBA, the analytical discipline of a Six Sigma Master Black Belt, the credentialed expertise of the IAPP AIGP, and years spent building and transforming enterprise AI governance at scale. Mr. Rebo renders opinions grounded in all of them.

He opines on how a reasonable organization or professional should select, validate, govern, monitor, and document AI systems, including large language models, and on whether a party met that standard. His approach is analytical rather than theoretical: he measures the actual decisions, controls, and documentation against the duties and frameworks that govern them, the way a Master Black Belt measures a process against its requirements.

Mr. Rebo has built and led enterprise AI governance for two multibillion-dollar technology companies. At Infinera he built the AI governance program from the ground up. At Nokia he transformed an outdated and ineffective function into a compliant and efficient program, approving large language models for deployment and authoring the policies, procurement standards, and contracting terms that put responsible AI into practice. He also led the enterprise-wide adoption of an AI-based contract lifecycle management system.

Litigation Support: Mr. Rebo assists litigators and firms in matters where AI use is at issue, including professional malpractice, standard of care, and commercial disputes. He also advises insurers and corporate legal departments, and accepts engagements nationwide, for plaintiff and defense, for case review, consulting, and testimony.

Areas of Expertise:

Mr. Rebo holds a JD and an MBA from the University of Montana, the IAPP AIGP credential, and Six Sigma Master Black Belt certification. He previously litigated civil matters in Montana state and federal courts, and is a decorated United States Army veteran who served 15 years and retired at the rank of Captain.

Jess Birken, MNM, Esq.

Jess is the owner of Birken Law Office PLLC, a boutique law firm serving nonprofits and charitable entities with their compliance and operational issues. Jess empowers nonprofits to achieve their mission by doing things right. She connects clients with the right tools, right coaching and right contacts. Ms. Birken is a nationally recognized attorney both for her service and understanding of the nonprofit & charitable sector as well as for her innovative subscription based law firm model. Listen to Jess' podcast Charity Therapy on your favorite podcast player.

Credentials

• BA, Sociology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• JD, Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Magna Cum Laude
• MA, Nonprofit Management, Hamline University School of Business
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Litigation Support 

Ideal client engagements are with attorneys for either plaintiff or defendant representing nonprofits involved in complex nonprofit business or compliance cases.

Biography

Ms. Birken is the former CEO & Managing Partner at Urban Birken PLLC, a boutique firm that focused on serving the nonprofit community and started her own firm in 2016. Jess has extensive non-legal experience working inside nonprofit organizations for most of her career prior to law school as well as after attaining her masters.

Before becoming a private practice attorney, Ms. Birken served inside a mid-sized national nonprofit organization, Pheasants Forever. In that role she managed ~$50,000,000 in state and federal government grants and worked on hundreds of conservation real estate transactions. Jess is deeply experienced in the reality of federal grants management across the entire life cycle. Ms. Birken has a deep understanding of the norms and best practices of the nonprofit sector, as well as the legal and regulatory environment these organizations exist within. This expertise was developed through her academic work obtaining a Masters in Nonprofit Management, in the work environment and through private practice experience.

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