Expert Witness and Litigation Support
Services Rincon Consultants has extensive experience in providing litigation support and expert witness services related to environmental projects throughout California. Our litigation support team assists clients in managing and resolving environmental litigation. Our expertise provides attorneys with the technical know-how needed to litigate or mediate a dispute. Our on-staff professionals have provided testimony at State and Federal courts, arbitration hearings, and in settlement conferences.
When providing expert witness or litigation support services, Rincon Consultants reviews available data to develop an understanding of the facts of the case. If there are deficiencies in site data, we will advise our client of this and provide assessment advice to help fill the data gaps.
In general, our approach to litigation support involves the following items:
We understand that technical data can be complex and confusing to both a judge and jury. Knowing these difficulties inherent in litigation of technical issues, we work closely with attorneys to format the data in a way that can be readily understood by the general public. Through the appropriate use of graphics and the intelligent simplification of complex matters, we are able to provide our services in a way that clarifies technical issues. We believe that a client is poorly served if the technical issues and facts are not readily understood by all.
Our litigation support services often involve the following matters:
- Landlord-tenant disputes related to contamination
- Allocation of responsibility related to assessment or remediation of contamination
- Valuation of costs associated with environmental degradation
- Negotiating liability and cost allocations during property transfers
The types of services that we provide include:
- Technical review of environmental documents
- Litigation strategy development based on the technical merits of the case
- Deposition and in-court testimony
- Privileged and confidential reports and documents
- Graphics
Representative Projects
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