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You need an affirmative opinion on what failed and why: site examination, evidence preservation, failure analysis, and a report written to survive Daubert and cross-examination.
Retain an affirmative expert →A report landed and the electrical reasoning does not hold. We work through the opposing analysis, isolate the assumptions the physical evidence does not support, and deliver the rebuttal along with a cross-examination outline.
Request a rebuttal review →Pre-suit, pre-mediation, or deciding whether to take the case at all. A preliminary read on whether the electrical evidence supports the theory, before the expert budget is spent.
Get a preliminary read →Most forensic electrical work is done by engineers whose careers were spent inside buildings. When the dispute involves the grid, a substation, a storage system, or a critical power plant, the analysis needs someone who has designed them.
Expert analysis for disputes involving substations, solar, battery storage, EV charging, microgrids, data center power, and grid interconnection. This is the side of the meter where we have spent most of our careers, and where very few forensic experts have actually worked.
Forensic investigation of electrical equipment failures, from commercial and industrial equipment to utility-scale transformers. Product liability, manufacturing defects, and warranty disputes.
Electrical engineering analysis for fire losses: whether an electrical failure caused or contributed to the fire, examination of wiring, panels, appliances and equipment, code compliance, and subrogation support.
Wrongful death and personal injury investigation. Root cause analysis for electrocution, shock injuries, and arc flash incidents. OSHA compliance and employer liability assessment.
Claim construction, infringement analysis, IPR support, and prior art research for electrical and energy technology patents, grounded in hands-on design experience with the underlying technology.
Practice pages: Electrical Expert Witness · Utility and Power Line Expert Witness · Electrocution and Arc Flash Expert Witness · Substation and Transformer Expert Witness · Solar and Battery Storage Expert Witness · EV Charging Expert Witness
Complex, high-exposure electrical disputes where causation is contested and the technical record decides the outcome. Smaller matters are taken as well, but this is where the depth is.
From hyperscale data center campuses and utility substations to commercial and industrial facilities, forensic expertise across the power system.
Power lines, substations, utility negligence, utility equipment in wildfire matters
Outage analysis, redundancy failures, critical power disputes
Manufacturing, warehouses, arc flash, machinery, OSHA
Inverter failures, battery storage failures, rooftop installation defects
EV charging station failures, installation defects, electrical code compliance
New build defects, renovation, contractor disputes, code violations
Office buildings, retail, hospitality, large multifamily properties
Hospitals, labs, campuses, backup power and UPS failures
Every engagement is structured for the demands of litigation, defensible methodology, clear reports, and testimony that holds up.
Plaintiff and defense counsel for personal injury, wrongful death, product liability, construction defect, patent infringement, and commercial disputes. Expert reports, depositions, and trial testimony.
Electrical cause analysis and subrogation support for property insurers. Equipment failure analysis, scope-of-damage assessment, and code compliance evaluation, coordinated with your origin and cause investigator.
Independent electrical assessment for HOAs, commercial property owners, and facility managers. Electrical failure analysis, construction defect evaluation, and electrical system safety audits.
Testimony backed by current engineering work on today's most complex systems, not outdated knowledge from a decade ago.
Licensed Professional Engineer with an MBA and more than twenty years in power systems. Available nationwide.
Commercial and industrial electrical, solar, battery storage, EV charging, modular/prefab power systems, substations, microgrids, data centers, semiconductors, power electronics, and emerging technologies.
Patent disputes, contractual claims, construction defects, product liability, electrical analysis in fire losses, personal injury, and insurance subrogation. Plaintiff and defense, in roughly equal measure.
A clear, systematic process designed for the demands of litigation timelines.
Site inspection, evidence preservation, equipment examination, and initial assessment. Coordination with counsel on scope and timeline.
Engineering calculations, code compliance review, failure analysis, patent claim evaluation. Industry-standard tools and defensible methodology.
Clear, comprehensive forensic report meeting Daubert standards. Written to be technically rigorous and accessible to judges and juries.
Deposition and trial testimony. Complex engineering translated into clear, persuasive narratives that withstand cross-examination.
Published standard for the first substantive reply, written by the engineer who would handle the matter, not an intake coordinator.
Conflicts cleared immediately. Send party names and we confirm clear or conflicted before anything else happens. Nothing privileged is requested.
Deadlines are triaged, not queued. Tell us the designation or trial date on the first call. If it is a deadline we cannot meet properly, we say so on day one, while you still have time to find someone who can.
Engineering perspective on electrical failures, claims, and evidence, written for attorneys, insurers, and claims professionals.
Rates depend on the matter and what the analysis actually requires, so we send the schedule the moment you ask, unprompted, with the CV. You will know what something costs before you spend an hour on a call.
| Conflict check result | Immediate |
| Current rate schedule | Same business day |
| CV of the designated expert | Same business day |
| Retainer structure and billing terms | Same business day |
| Written scope and phase estimate | After the scoping call |
What to photograph, what to preserve, what never to energize or reset, and which utility and equipment records age out first. Written for adjusters and counsel in the first 48 hours of a loss. No email required, built to print and hand to a field adjuster.
Open the checklist →Most counsel decline to serve as a named reference, and they are right to. Identifying your electrical expert reveals more about your case strategy than you want revealed. Judge the work instead: the articles on this site set out the methods we apply, and the full CV, testimony history, and rate schedule of the engineer who would handle your matter come with the proposal.
Both, deliberately. An expert who only ever appears for one side hands opposing counsel a free line of impeachment, and over time it tends to bend methodology. The analysis runs identically either way. Only the retention differs.
Yes. A substantial part of the work is non-testifying consulting under the work product privilege: case evaluation, examining the opposing expert's report, deposition outlines, and site inspection direction. If you later want to designate, the disclosure implications get discussed before that decision is made rather than after.
It depends far more on the condition of the evidence than on the calendar. A single equipment examination with preserved components can move in days. A substation or switchgear failure needs longer, because relay event data, control system logs, and protection settings have to be pulled and reconstructed before any opinion is worth writing. A battery storage or solar thermal event with several parties, a joint inspection protocol, and destructive testing runs to weeks. If you are inside a deadline, call and say so, and you will get an honest answer about whether it can be done properly in the time available.
Yes. Electrical failure analysis is not jurisdiction-bound, and the governing codes and standards are national. Matters are accepted nationwide, and where a state-specific code amendment or licensing question matters, the analysis works from the governing edition and your legal instructions.
Party names for the conflict check, the nearest deadline, and a short description of the loss. That is enough to confirm conflicts, tell you whether this is the right discipline for the question, and identify what evidence needs a preservation letter today.
No engagement, no cost, no sales process. If we are conflicted or this is not the right discipline for your question, we will say so and point you somewhere useful.
Party names are what the check runs against. Nothing privileged is requested.
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