This Ph.D. forensic linguist has more than 30 years of experience applying the science of linguistics to civil and criminal matters, with over 25 years of expert witness experience involving consultation, deposition testimony, trial testimony, and evidentiary hearings. He has been qualified as an expert in linguistics under both Frye and Daubert standards in numerous courts and has testified before international tribunals in contract-related disputes. His forensic linguistics work addresses disputed authorship, plagiarism, libel and defamation, trademark disputes, contract interpretation, confessions, undercover recordings, threat communications, and the semantic and pragmatic analysis of written and recorded language. Case experience includes homicide matters, conspiracy allegations, terrorism-related charges, internet sting operations, capital cases, intellectual property disputes, and complex commercial litigation. He has analyzed linguistic evidence in high-stakes plagiarism and authorship matters, including litigation in which his methodology and findings were expressly credited by the court.

He serves in a senior academic position in linguistics and has held leadership roles in advanced study and research programs related to forensic language analysis. His academic background includes a Ph.D. in linguistics with research specializations in semantic theory and sociolinguistics. He has collaborated with law enforcement agencies on communicated threat assessment and counterterrorism-related linguistic analysis and has consulted for government agencies, prosecutors, defense counsel, and civil litigants in language-centered disputes. His work applies established principles of semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics to evaluate the meaning, authorship, and interpretation of contracts, letters, emails, text messages, recorded speech, and other language evidence in litigation.