Harvard-Trained · Board-Certified Spine Surgeon · Expert Witness
Independent surgical opinion
for high-stakes spine litigation.
Case review, Rule 26 reports, and deposition and trial testimony — for defense and plaintiff counsel.
Confidential intake. Conflicts checked within 24 hours. Independent review from a Harvard-trained, board-certified spine surgeon.
Harvard-Trained
Spine Surgery & Research
Board-Certified
Orthopaedic Surgery
Fellowship-Trained
Spine Surgery
Active Practice
Operative & Non-operative
Services
Before the deposition. Before mediation. Before you commit to a theory.
An active surgical practice keeps the work grounded in current standards — not what the textbook said a decade ago. Each engagement begins with the question the record will actually answer.
Case Review
An independent surgical read of the records, imaging, and operative notes — mechanism, timing, what was reasonable, what wasn't. Sample 3D reconstructions and surgical animations available on request to recreate what happened.
Written Expert Opinions
Reports conforming to federal Rule 26 or applicable state expert disclosure templates. Self-authored. Reasoned, cited, and built to survive Daubert challenge.
Depositions
Composed, methodical, and clear under cross. Complex spinal anatomy and surgical decision-making translated for the record.
Trial Testimony
Direct and cross-examination at trial. Available to travel — domestic and regional venues. Visual exhibits and animation walkthroughs supported.
Approach
Winning isn't determined by who is right. It's determined by which narrative survives the decision system.
Juries do not adjudicate truth. They adjudicate the most coherent story that fits the evidence they are willing to retain. The case with the cleanest causal chain wins more often than the case with the strongest underlying facts.
The work is to find the variable the other side discounted — the pre-existing condition treated as background, the timeline gap never explained, the single image that re-anchors the jury. That variable is usually where the case is actually decided.
Better odds.
Fees
Transparent, fixed fee schedule. No surprise hours billed.
Every service is quoted as a fixed fee with the deliverable and timeline named up front. No open-ended hourly meters. No padded invoices at the end of the case. The fee schedule is shared with retaining counsel before any record is reviewed.
Case Review
Flat fee. Written impressions within a defined window. No surprise add-ons.
Rule 26 Report
Quoted on the scope of opinions, not a meter. One fee covers drafting and revisions.
Deposition
Half-day or full-day rate, agreed in advance. Travel quoted separately and capped.
Trial Testimony
Per-day trial rate. Preparation, demonstratives, and travel disclosed in writing.
The 51 : 49 Principle
Most cases aren't 90 : 10. They are 51 : 49 — and the 51 is the variable everyone else discounted.
51
The overlooked variable
A pre-existing finding written off as background. A two-week gap in the chart no one explained. The single image that re-anchors a juror who has stopped listening.
49
The obvious theory
What both sides argue at first pass. Necessary but rarely sufficient. Cases tied at 49 are decided by what the 49 ignored.
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Find the 51
Surgical review of the record with one goal: surface the variable the other side discounted, early enough to change what you ask, file, or settle for.
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