Are expert witnesses allowed to do national work, or can they only represent local clients? I’ve been asked that question too many times to count. I’ve even had some of my expert witness students (I teach a class about how to be an expert witness) ask if there is a way to buy local leads [...]
Read MoreOne of the common requests in my credit expert witness related work is the assessment and quantification of damages caused by allegedly incorrect credit reporting and the subsequent lower credit scores that can be a result of the incorrect credit reporting. In my 100+ cases as an expert it has become apparent to me that [...]
Read MoreIn my world, that of the credit expert witness, there are about a half dozen people who seem to do much of the expert witness work. I’m not sure if that’s coincidental or if there are really only a small handful of people who feel comfortable doing expert witness work, which isn’t for everyone. Some [...]
Read MoreWhen Do I Cancel My Agreement For Non-Payment of Expert Witness Fees? It’s uncommon but there’s always the difficult credit damage expert client. Not a client who bothers you excessively, but a client who can’t seem to find his or her checkbook. Don’t get me wrong, I am the most flexible “vendor” in the world [...]
Read MoreWhat If I Don’t Want to Take a Case as an Expert Witness? Professional expert witnesses won’t publicly admit it, but they’re all hourly employees to some extent. If they don’t work, they don’t get paid. So the dilemma we face when we’re presented with potential “business” that we don’t really want is hard to [...]
Read MoreCredit Damage Discovery, The Value of Dodd-Frank to Credit Expert Witnesses How many of you credit expert witnesses have struggled with the exercise of trying to find suitable documentation memorializing your client’s (or the adverse party’s) FICO scores? Unless you have reports from the myFICO website or tri-merge credit reports provided for a mortgage loan [...]
Read MoreBusiness is picking up in the world of consumer credit related lawsuits. According to Michigan based WebRecon some 617 lawsuits were filed between April 1 and April 15, 2011. Of those 617, 564 were FDCPA lawsuits and 73 were FCRA lawsuits. 564 represents 17% of the FDCPA lawsuits filed so far in 2011. The 73 [...]
Read MoreOn April 27, 2011 a man named Kristopher Johns filed a lawsuit in Federal court against Sony. The lawsuit, which seeks class action status, was filed in the US District Court in the Northern District of CA. The issue is the well publicized data breach where Sony’s PlayStation customer list and some of the information [...]
Read MoreToday I received the following email from Round Table Group, an expert witness consulting service. Dear Mr. Ulzheimer: More than 15 years ago, we established Round Table Group as an expert witness consulting service to connect the right industry experts, corporate executives and academics with litigators building their cases. Today, Round Table Group helps connect [...]
Read MoreWe’re almost 3 months into 2011 and we’re on pace to match the record volume of FDCPA and FCRA lawsuits from 2010. We ended the year with over 12,000 consumer credit protection lawsuits, with the majority being FDCPA and FCRA suits. Of course, there were also countless lawsuits of another nature that included a credit [...]
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John Ulzheimer is the President of The Ulzheimer Group, LLC, and founder of CreditExpertWitness.com. He is a nationally recognized expert on credit reporting, credit scoring and identity theft.
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