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For more than thirty years Expert has been a Forensic Economic Consultant, assisting attorneys in the evaluation of economic damages in a wide variety of issues, including medical malpractice, wrongful death, personal injury, wrongful termination, business loss, employment discrimination, and shareholder/security issues . He serves both plaintiff's and defendant's attorneys, and has provided expertise in the development and analysis of many structured settlements. He has extensive courtroom experience, having testified as an expert economic witness in more than sixty trials in numerous courts, including D.C. Superior Court, Federal District Courts in Washington, Baltimore and other jurisdictions, and the Maryland Health Claims Arbitration Board.

As a member of the National Association of Forensic Economics (Special Programs, Nominating, and other Committees) and the American Economic Association, Expert has conducted and participated in many professional workshops, continuing education sessions, and national and international conferences. In 2001, he was asked to serve as an economic resources advisor to Trial Lawyers Care, Inc., the non-profit corporation created by the American Trial Lawyers Association to assist claimants filing for compensation from the Federal Victims Compensation Fund, (VCF) established for families of those who lost their lives and those who were injured in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. He provided the economic damages analysis on two of the lead cases presented to the VCF, working with attorneys and with the families on a pro bono basis.

He was recently selected to write a chapter entitled “Deposing Economists” for a new Practice Manual published for the Rhode Island Bar by MCLE, as part of an effort to update Continuing Legal Education in New England.

Expert’s undergraduate work was in mathematics and economics at the University of Massachusetts, and his graduate economics training was at Washington University in St. Louis, where he specialized in labor economics and the economics of education. In addition, he was an actuarial trainee at Mass Mutual Life Insurance Company, in Springfield, Mass. He taught economics at Pennsylvania State University prior to joining the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1970.