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Review of Case Materials
Reviews records, documents, testimony, data, and other relevant materials and consults with counsel regarding technical issues related to the matter.
Provide Expert Analysis
Applies specialized knowledge and experience to evaluate the technical or professional issues involved.
Form Expert Opinions
Develops independent, supportable opinions based on the available evidence and relevant standards.
Prepare Expert Reports
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Material handling can expose a package to drops, impacts, vibration, compression, stacking loads, punctures, pallet movement, and changes in orientation. In a packaging dispute, those conditions can be compared with the container design, cushioning, pallet configuration, shipment records, distribution testing, and observed damage. The goal is to determine whether the package provided the expected protection or whether damage is more consistent with conditions encountered during handling or transportation.
Chemical packaging can raise questions about leakage, closures, seals, container materials, permeability, pressure, corrosion, and compatibility between the package and its contents. For regulated hazardous-material shipments, packaging specifications and performance testing may also be relevant. PHMSA's 49 CFR Part 178 includes specifications and test requirements for various hazardous-material packagings, including drop, leakproofness, hydrostatic pressure, stacking, and vibration tests where applicable.
Medical device packaging disputes can involve seal quality, package integrity, sterile barrier systems, forming and sealing processes, distribution damage, storage, or shelf-life evidence. For terminally sterilized medical devices, FDA currently recognizes ISO 11607-1 and ISO 11607-2, including the 2023 amendments, addressing packaging systems and validation of forming, sealing, and assembly processes.
The distinction usually turns on what is actually disputed. Packaging expertise is centered on the physical system that contains, protects, seals, and transports the product. If the principal question concerns label language, claims, warnings, instructions, disclosures, or other communicated information, separately qualified labeling expertise may be more appropriate. A matter can involve both packaging and labeling issues, depending on the opinions at issue.
Prepares clear, well-supported expert reports outlining methodology, analysis, findings, and opinions.
Provide Deposition Testimony
Explains findings and opinions under oath and responds to questioning during deposition testimony.
Testify in Court
Presents specialized findings and opinions clearly to judges, juries, arbitrators, or other decision-makers.
Beverage cases may involve bottles, cans, cartons, closures, seams, leakage, pressure, or barrier performance. Packaged meat may involve trays, films, lidding materials, seals, absorbent components, and other food-contact materials. FDA regulates substances used in food packaging as food-contact substances when they meet the statutory definition, and the intended food type and conditions of use can matter. Questions about pathogens, spoilage, or food processing may require separate Food Safety expertise.
