Expert Testimony & Litigation Support
We have the reputation — and the experts — to support effective negotiations and litigation.
For more information, contact Leslie Katz at 520.881.4912 or Bill Victor at 480.948.7747.
Throughout our history, M&A’s clients have trusted us to provide them with objective, effective litigation support and expert witness services. Our highly credentialed professionals enjoy a well-deserved reputation for meticulous attention to detail and an ability to present information in a clear, defensible manner. These traits are critical to developing a strong technical case and achieving an equitable conflict resolution.
M&A is a valuable partner for clients seeking to effectively represent their technical position to parties in a dispute resolution, settlement process, or judicial proceedings. We also assist clients who need to integrate complex economic, regulatory, policy, and technical concepts into their negotiation / litigation strategy. In addition to providing expert testimony, we…
- Prepare exhibits to communicate complex information to nontechnical audiences
- Design and implement forensic hydrology investigations
- Develop groundwater models to support legal disputes and proceedings, as well as critique analyses and models developed by opposing experts
- Analyze technical information and prepare expert reports
Applications
Environmental disputes. M&A provides the technical skills required to allocate responsibility and costs associated with contaminant cleanups and to assess claims for liability and damages.
Water rights negotiations. M&A provides expert advice to negotiating teams on the economic, policy, and technical factors that affect water-resource interests, helping them evaluate various settlement proposals.
Adjudication proceedings. We have a long history of assisting legal teams by characterizing the complex interactions between surface water and groundwater systems using models and analytical methods.
Impact analyses. M&A can predict the potential impacts of past or future actions such as groundwater pumping (which may reduce spring flows, for example) or industrial operations, which may cause the deterioration of water supplies. Our work gives legal teams a defensible foundation for negotiations or litigation.
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