This expert holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics and has more than 30 years of professional experience in forensic linguistics, with extensive experience assisting attorneys, legal professionals, and private clients in matters involving language analysis. The expert’s background includes academic, corporate communications, editorial, and forensic experience, with forensic work dating back to 1979.

The expert specializes in forensic linguistics with a focus on authorship analysis, document interpretation, plagiarism, and copyright and trademark matters. Authorship analysis involves evaluation of syntax, word choice, spelling, punctuation, and stylistic features to determine the authorship of anonymous or disputed documents such as emails, text messages, and other written communications. The expert also provides linguistic interpretation of legal and commercial documents, offering analysis of meaning, ambiguity, and intent in disputed language, as well as assessment of plagiarism and intellectual property issues including originality, genericity, and likelihood of confusion.

The expert has extensive expert witness experience, including consultations, depositions, expert reports, and courtroom testimony across a wide range of litigation matters, including intellectual property disputes, contract interpretation, criminal matters, family law disputes, and business litigation. In addition, the expert has held academic appointments and has significant experience in writing, editing, and executive speechwriting, supporting a comprehensive understanding of language structure, variation, and usage in legal and professional contexts.