Many cases go to trial over a monetary loss or injury, and damages experts are often retained in order to lend their expertise to these cases. Our damages expert witnesses, speakers, and consultants are scholars from major universities, lawyers, accountants, economists, and industry professionals who have worked in the healthcare, computer services, construction, and real estate industries, among others.

The analysis of data is more important than ever, as the amount of data generated and informing decision making has been increasing with the advancement of new technologies. Our data analysis experts have deep experience identifying, collecting, and organizing data as they have worked as applied statisticians, educators, geologists, economic consultants, database engineers, and data scientists.

The rise of big data has been monumental, and as of 2019, 90% of the world’s data was generated in the previous two years alone. By the end of 2020, the world will contain over 50 billion connected smart devices that are all collecting and sharing data. Our data mining expert witnesses have advised the National Science Foundation and worked or consultant for several private companies such as Bell Labs, NCR, Novell, Union Bank of Switzerland, and various law firms, as well as clients on Wall Street and in the internet gaming and biotechnology industries.

The amount of data being generated daily around the world is significant, as U.S companies alone generate enough data each year to fill 10,000 Libraries of Congress. Ourdatabase expert witnesses, speakers, and consultants are scholars from major universities and industry professionals who have worked extensively with organizations in the financial services, manufacturing, transportation, government, and military industries, such as Bell Laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory, the US Army Research Laboratories, the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences at NASA, and the United Nations Environment Program.

Decisions are made within every industry and in every individual’s personal lives. These decisions occasionally lead to negative ramifications which can result in litigation, and decision-making expert witnesses are equipped with the expertise to speak to decision making on a deeply informed and scientific level. Our decision-making expert witnesses, speakers, and consultants are scholars from major universities and industry professionals who have consulted for organizations such as Royal/Dutch Shell, Eli Lilly, IBM, General Motors, and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and National Bureau of Standards. Their expertise spans many disciplines ranging from psychology and medicine to business and political science.

Every 3 seconds, someone on the planet develops dementia, with an estimated 50 million individuals living with dementia in 2017. Our dementia experts have worked as neurologists, nurses, psychiatrists, educators, and pharmacologists.

Oral diseases affect 3.9 billion people around the world, and oral conditions are the fourth most expensive to treat. Our dental experts have worked as dentists, insurance brokers, oral surgeons, educators, and researchers.

The dental implant market was valued at just under $700 million in 2018, and it is estimated that 5 million implants are placed every year in the US. Our dental implants experts have worked as directors of implant restorations, educators, dentists, periodontists, and prosthodontists.

Dentistry is the medical specialty concerned with the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions of the oral cavity, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures. Our dentistry expert witnesses, speakers, and consultants specialize in a broad array of disciplines including material science, healthcare, orthodontics, dental surgery, prosthodontics, biomedical engineering, pediatric dentistry, oncology, biology, medicine, and more.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 16.2 million adults in the United States (6.7% of the adult population) had at least a single major depressive episode in 2016. Experts on depression are often retained in order to lend their expertise to cases that involve psychology, social work, addiction, mental health, and more.

Our derivatives expert witnesses, speakers, and consultants are scholars from major universities and industry professional who have extensive knowledge in the fields of finance, economics, law, banking, management, and risk management, among others. Areas of expertise include financial derivatives, over-the-counter derivatives, derivatives valuation, energy derivatives valuation, derivative strategies, risk management, derivative securities, derivatives markets, options, futures, swaps, banking law, software, and more. Our derivatives experts have consulted with major public utilities, energy companies, auditing firms, corporations, investment bankers, elected municipal officials, and commercial bankers; have provided expert testimony and participated in speaking engagements worldwide; and have been widely published.

Our dermatology expert witnesses, speakers, and consultants are medical professionals with comprehensive knowledge and experience in areas including cosmetic dermatology, medicine, varicose vein treatment, and Mohs and laser surgery. Our experts have lectured and appeared on television, including ’20/20′ and ‘The Today Show’, in their areas of expertise. They have been published on such topics as laser therapy, Mohs surgery, cosmetics, varicose vein treatment, sclerotherapy, lasers, and cosmetic dermatology surgery and aesthetic procedures. Our dermatology experts have successfully testified for both plaintiffs and defense in a variety of cases including medical malpractice cases.

Design disputes arise wherever a commercial party paid for a plan, specification, or form and believes it did not receive what was promised. Developers pursue architects and engineers over building systems, facades, and structural calculations that fail in service; manufacturers dispute industrial design deliverables and product durability; and competitors litigate design patents and trade dress covering product forms and packaging. The contested question is rarely whether something went wrong. It is whether the design itself was deficient, or whether the problem traces to construction, manufacturing, use, or a change in requirements that the designer never controlled.

A design expert tests the design against the codes, standards, specifications, and professional practices that applied when it was prepared. That may involve rechecking load and thermal assumptions in a structural or facade design, reviewing materials selection and stress modeling for a product housing, or comparing approved wireframes and specifications against what was ultimately delivered. In design patent and trade dress matters, the analysis shifts to the ordinary observer's perception, prior art, and the distinction between functional and ornamental features. Each inquiry helps counsel connect a design decision to the failure or loss at issue, separate design error from other causes, and support or rebut the damages that follow.

Design litigation spans architecture, engineering, industrial design, and intellectual property, so the strongest expert is the one whose practice matches the specific design discipline in dispute. Round Table Group can connect counsel with architects who have testified on design defects, accessibility compliance, and professional negligence, structural engineers who have addressed seismic design and errors and omissions, and a mechanical engineer who is also a registered patent agent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The network also includes a member of the National Academy of Engineering who served as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has testified on composite product failure and manufacturing patents, as well as a digital imaging pioneer inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame. With more than 75,000 expert searches completed for litigators, we can help you identify the designer or engineer whose experience fits your matter, and we invite you to start the conversation by calling us at (202) 908-4500.

Real estate development involves multiyear projects, complex financing, and multiple parties whose interests can diverge sharply when a project falters. Developers, equity partners, lenders, landowners, municipalities, and contractors litigate over development agreements, joint venture obligations, entitlements, budget overruns, schedule delays, and fees. Disputes also arise over whether a developer met its duties to investors or whether a project's failure resulted from market conditions, regulatory obstacles, or mismanagement. The central question is usually whether development decisions met the standards of a reasonably prudent developer.

A real estate development expert helps attorneys evaluate project decisions, budgets, schedules, and feasibility. The expert can review pro formas, market studies, entitlement records, development budgets, draw requests, and partnership agreements to assess whether assumptions were reasonable and whether the developer managed the project competently. The expert can also analyze the impact of delays, design changes, and regulatory actions on project value and returns. That analysis frames liability and causation and supports damages tied to lost profits, diminished value, or misapplied funds.

Development testimony is most credible when it comes from professionals who have taken projects from entitlement through completion. Round Table Group can identify real estate developers, development executives, land use planners, and real estate finance professionals, including members of the Urban Land Institute and faculty from programs such as MIT's Center for Real Estate. Their practical experience helps a fact-finder understand how development decisions are made and why projects succeed or fail. We've completed more than 75,000 expert searches for litigators and can match the property type and issues in your case with a qualified expert. Let us help you identify that expert by calling us at (202) 908-4500.

Device-related commercial disputes typically arise in patent, product liability, and licensing litigation involving semiconductor, electronic, or medical devices, when a company alleges that a competitor's device infringes a patented design or that a device failed to perform as its specifications or regulatory clearance represented. These disputes surface in patent infringement cases turning on whether an accused semiconductor or electronic device practices a claimed invention, in product liability matters involving device design or manufacturing defects, and in FDA regulatory disputes over whether a medical device met applicable clearance and manufacturing requirements. Because devices span disciplines from semiconductor physics to biomedical engineering, determining whether a specific device functions, was designed, or was manufactured as claimed requires deep technical expertise particular to that device category. The central issue is typically whether the device's actual design, function, or manufacturing process matches what the patent, specification, or regulatory filing describes.

A devices expert helps attorneys resolve that question by examining the device's engineering, materials, and manufacturing records against the patent claims, product specifications, or regulatory standards at issue. That might mean comparing an accused semiconductor device's circuit architecture against a patent's claim elements, evaluating whether a medical device's design controls and manufacturing processes complied with FDA good manufacturing practice requirements, or analyzing whether a device failure traces to a design flaw, manufacturing defect, or misuse. These technical findings support positions on infringement, product defect, and regulatory compliance, and often anticipate the arguments an opposing device expert is likely to raise.

Because devices span such a wide technical range, from semiconductor and photonic components to medical and biomedical devices, selecting the right expert means matching the assignment to someone with hands-on experience in the specific device category at issue rather than devices in general terms. Round Table Group's devices network includes electrical engineers, bioengineers, and materials scientists who have worked with organizations such as the U.S. military and major industrial research laboratories, many of whom are prolific authors and hold multiple patents in their fields. With more than 75,000 expert searches completed for litigators, we help attorneys narrow that broad technical field to the individual expert whose credentials fit the specific device dispute. Let us help you find the right devices expert for your case by calling us at (202) 908-4500.

In the US today, it is estimated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that more than 100 million adults are living with either diabetes or prediabetes. This is 9.4 percent of the U.S. population. Our diabetes experts have worked as internal medicine practitioners, educators, endocrinologists, oncologists, psychologists, nutritionists, and researchers.

Content is being digitized at an incredible rate, as the internet is responsible for the majority of the distributed video, audio, written, and social content. Digital media experts can speak to the design of media systems, advertising practices, consumer technology, digital communication, intellectual property, and more. Our digital media experts have worked as technology executives, educators, digital effects professionals, broadcast professionals, media policy consultants, to name a few.

Director is a position held in business, government, sports, and the arts. This means that directing experts are retained to lend their specific expertise to a variety of legal matters. Our directing experts have worked as directors, professors, writers, producers, actors, artists, executives, theatre owners, stage combat technicians, and more.

Disability issues drive a substantial volume of institutional and commercial litigation, much of it between sophisticated parties. Disability insurers dispute reserve methodology and recoverables with their reinsurers, pursue third-party administrators and actuarial consultants whose work proved unreliable, and litigate underwriting, misrepresentation, and benefit coordination questions across entire blocks of business. Building owners, employers, and technology companies face accessibility and accommodation claims that turn on federal standards, and frequently look to their own consultants and vendors when compliance audits fall short. The central dispute is usually whether a disability-related decision, product, or assessment conformed to the industry and regulatory standards that governed it.

Expert analysis typically begins with the governing documents and standards: the policy or treaty language, the plan's coordination-of-benefits provisions, the applicable ADA accessibility requirements, or the claims administration agreement. A disability expert can then audit claim files, underwriting classifications, reserve assumptions, or accessibility assessments to determine whether decisions were consistent, documented, and supportable. Where medical or vocational questions arise, physicians, occupational medicine specialists, and vocational experts evaluate functional capacity, impairment, and earning capacity under accepted methodologies. That combined analysis lets counsel tie specific failures to quantifiable losses and challenge opposing opinions that rest on outdated assumptions or incomplete records.

Disability litigation draws on insurance, medicine, rehabilitation, and civil rights expertise, so selecting the right expert begins with defining which of those disciplines the dispute actually tests. Round Table Group works with insurance professionals who have spent decades in disability underwriting, claims, pricing, and reinsurance, including one who argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court and another who served as a key witness in one of the largest reinsurance arbitrations ever decided. The network also includes occupational medicine and physical medicine physicians who have testified extensively on impairment and fitness for duty, psychologists who have published on disability determination and workplace accommodation under the ADA, and experts who have served with organizations such as Rehabilitation International, the Special Olympics, and the National Institute of Justice Advisory Board. Backed by more than 75,000 expert searches, we can help you assemble the right disability expertise for your matter, and we would welcome the opportunity to discuss it by calling us at (202) 908-4500.

Discrimination is a specific social behavior in which prejudice exists based on group, class, or category that an individual is perceived to belong. Our discrimination expert witnesses, speakers, and consultants are scholars and researchers from major universities and industry professionals.

The World Health Organization states that chronic diseases are the primary cause of death around the world, and retaining the right disease expert for a case makes a huge difference when you consider the range of diseases that exist. Our disease experts have consulted for numerous pharmaceutical companies and have successfully testified in a variety of cases.

Distribution experts are often retained to lend their expertise to cases that arise within various industries and across a wide range of focus areas. Our distribution expert witnesses, speakers, and consultants are scholars from major universities and industry professionals who are knowledgeable in numerous areas such as finance, e-commerce, income distribution, food distribution, gas distribution, Internet distribution, sales, utilities, and warehouse distribution.

Gen Z and millennials are the most diverse generations in history, and a majority of job seekers prefer a diverse workplace. Our diversity experts have conducted presentations, workshops, and training on diversity and change; worked with government, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations; and have written extensively on diversity in their respective fields.

About 50 percent of marriages in the U.S. end in separation or divorce, which is the sixth-highest divorce rate in the world. Our divorce experts have worked as attorneys, educators, divorce specialists, forensic accountants, psychologists, and marriage counselors.

Drilling practices can result in accidents, misunderstandings, and political or business disputes. There are a lot of subspecialties when it comes to drilling, such as geography, economics, resources, and various technologies are all involved. Our drilling experts have worked as oil and gas executives, engineers, log analysts, petrophysicists, educators, drilling technology consultants, contract consultants, and energy advisors.

The drug delivery market is expected to reach an aCAGR of 5% between 2019-2024, which is largely driven by the development of new drugs and the growing understanding of human biology and diseases. Our drug delivery experts have worked as pharmaceutical executives, chemical engineers, educators, biomolecular engineers, drug delivery researchers, and doctors.

New medications are being designed and made available every year, and the process from invention to market release can be complex and full of legal vulnerabilities. Our drug design experts have worked as biochemists, biomedical consultants, educators, organic chemists, drug designers, pharmaceutical executives, and data scientists.

The development and go-to-market process of new pharmaceutical drugs is complex and nuanced. Drug development experts are often retained to lend their expertise to cases that require knowledge of drug discovery, FDA regulations, clinical trials, regulatory approval, and more. Our drug development experts have worked as pharmaceutical executives, chemists, drug development professionals, and pharmacologists to name just a few.

Drug discovery is the name given to the process of discovering new candidate medications, and this process applies to pharmacology, biotechnology, and medicine. Our drug discovery experts have worked as pharmaceutical professionals, consultants, educators, biotechnology professionals, chemists, drug development professionals, pharmacologists, and more.

Drugs experts are often retained in one of two contexts, pharmaceutical or recreational. This leads to a wide array of focus areas as it relates to drugs, and our drugs experts have worked as chemists, psychologists, nutritionists, biologists, forensic medicine professionals, drug regulation professionals, law enforcement professionals, educators, and more.

The process of due diligence refers to a voluntary investigation that takes place prior to a legal process. There are many areas of litigation that could call for a due diligence expert, including valuations, accounting, fraud investigations, risk management, and more. Our due diligence experts have worked as financial executives, real estate appraisers, development consultants, forensic engineers, health care professionals, educators, insurance underwriters, and more.

Dynamics experts are often retained in order to lend their expertise to engineering, mechanics, and robotics cases. Our dynamics experts have worked as mechanical engineers, accident reconstruction consultants, mathematicians, economists, and more.