Expert Witness and Litigation Support

Introduction

NewPoint Group senior personnel have been retained as expert witnesses on over 150 separate legal cases concerning economic and financial damages for public and private entities. The firm has an excellent expert witness and litigation support track record. Firm experts have presented over 30 formal sworn court case depositions, and participated in over 17 judge or jury trials.

NewPoint Group specializes in large and complex government and business litigation, including economic, financial, statistical, accounting, and market liabilities and damages. Members of the firm have served as impartial California Hearing Officers. Firm members also have made economic damage presentations to mediation settlement conferences and local government Board hearings.

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Areas of Economic Damage Analyses

Areas of NewPoint Group economic damage analysis experience includes the following:

  • Antitrust economics
  • Business valuations
  • Complex real estate transactions
  • Construction contract claims
  • Consumer protection fraud
  • Environmental economics (including defending California's state-wide beverage container recycling program)
  • Government regulation (including mobile home park rent control, growth management initiatives, and building codes and regulations)
  • Housing markets
  • Industry structures and economics
  • Inverse condemnation lost earnings
  • Lender liability suits
  • Lost business profits
  • Personal injury lost earnings and future wage losses
  • Real property development
  • Rent control analyses
  • Trade secrets valuation
  • Wrongful death valuations
  • Wrongful termination lost earnings and future wage losses
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Expert Witness Professional Affiliations

Firm personnel are members of the National Association of Forensic Economists, The American Academy of Economic and Financial Experts, the American Rehabilitation Economist Association, and the Sacramento Chapter of the Litigation Services Committee, California Society of Certified Public Accounts. Firm professionals also are registered with the Expert Witness Network, The Technical Advisory Services for Attorneys, The Bar Association of San Francisco Register of Experts and Consultants, and the Defense Research and Trial Lawyers Association.

Relevant expert witness and litigation support firm professional affiliations include the following:

  • American Law and Economics Association
  • American Academy of Economic and Financial Experts
  • American Agricultural Economics Association
  • American Economics Association
  • California Society of Certified Public Accountants, Sacramento Chapter, Litigation Services Committee
  • Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society of Agriculture
  • National Association of Business Economists
  • National Association of Forensic Economists
  • National Economists Club
  • Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society
  • Sacramento Economics Roundtable
  • Western Economics Association
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Representative Expert Witness and Litigation Support Clients

  • Anwyl, Wiesenfeld & Rushford
  • Atkinson Farasyn
  • Bailey & Brown
  • Bailey, Lea & Brown
  • Barrett & Byrd
  • Barrett, Harper, Woll, Raatz & Stenson
  • Barrett, Penney & Byrd
  • Best, Best & Krieger
  • Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP
  • Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon
  • Brunick, Alvarez & Battersby
  • Burke, Williams & Sorensen
  • Cardozo, Nickerson, Martelli, Curtis & Arata
  • City Attorney, City of Calimesa
  • City Attorney, City of Concord
  • City Attorney, City of Escondido
  • City Attorney, City of Oceanside
  • City Attorney, City of Palmdale
  • City Attorney, City of Santa Paula
  • Clausen & Campbell
  • Coffey, Mehlhop & Brown
  • Contra Costa County
  • County of Sacramento Counsel
  • Crosby, Heafey, Roach and May
  • David W. Falconer, Esquire
  • Dawson, Kassow & Harman
  • Dean Witter Reynolds Inc.
  • Desmond Miller Desmond & Bartholomew
  • Diepenbrock, Wulff, Plant & Hannegan
  • Dingus, Haley & Foust
  • Downey, Brand, Seymour & Rohwer
  • Endeman, Lincoln, Turek & Heater
  • Gibson & Gibson
  • Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher
  • Greve, Clifford, Wengel & Paras, LLP
  • Grossfeld & Diaz
  • Grossfeld & Grossfeld
  • Gruensich, Ellison & Schneider
  • Hardy, Erich, Brown, & Wilson
  • Hedges, Powe & Caldwell
  • Hefner, Stark & Marois
  • Hession & Creedon Law Corporation
  • Hirschfield and Nadler
  • Ingoglia, Marskey & Kearney
  • Ingoglia, Marskey, Kearney & Nielsen
  • John B. Lewis and Clarence D. Walters
  • Knecht, Haley, Lawrence & Smith
  • Law Office of Claude W. Vanderwold
  • Littler, Mendelson, Fastiff & Tichy
  • Los Angeles County Counsel
  • Lozano Smith
  • McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen
  • McDonald, Saeltzer, Morris, Creeggan & Waddock
  • McDonough, Holland & Allen
  • McKinley, Gay & Keitges
  • Miller Starr & Regalia
  • Morris, Polich & Purdy, LLP
  • Morrison & Foerster, LLP
  • Murchison & Cumming
  • Office of the County Counsel, County of Los Angeles
  • Office of the County Counsel, County of Santa Cruz
  • Patrick J. Riley
  • Ramsey, Morrison, Keddy & Wallis
  • Robison, Belaustegui, Robb and Sharp
  • Salter & Struck
  • Santa Cruz County Mobile Home Commission
  • Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson
  • Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger
  • State of California, Department of Transportation Legal Division
  • Stevens & Davis
  • Steyer Lowenthal & Walker
  • Strauss, Neibauer, Anderson and Hollenback
  • Thompson & Heller
  • Toy, Coleman & Davies
  • Trainor, Robertson & Smits
  • Trainor, Robertson, Smits & Wade
  • U.S. Federal Trade Commission
  • Vitale & Hardy
  • Vitale, Vanderwold, & Hardy
  • Weintraub, Genshlea, Hardy, Erich & Brown
  • William Stoddard and G. Vern Albright
  • Wohl & Eggleston
  • Zumbrum, Best and Findley
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