Title insurance, escrow, and real estate transaction expert witness with more than 30 years of industry experience and more than 25 years of expert witness experience involving consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony. The expert's areas of focus include title insurance, escrow practices, and real property transactions. Their background includes a master's degree in administration, a bachelor's degree, and designation as a Senior Certified Escrow Officer. Their current work includes underwriting and coordinating land and personal property transactions, along with review and approval of high-liability and extra-hazardous-risk transactions.

His expertise includes title insurance, escrow, standard of care, claims process, custom and practice, hiring and training standards, fraud, easements, liens, policy coverage, probate, tax sales, and water rights. His real property transaction experience includes coordination, underwriting, and closing of real property transactions, escrow file review, audit and reconstruction, forensic document and real property title chain examination, underwriting advice, contract examinations of title chains, and specialized research involving easements, legal descriptions, ownership determinations, title policy coverage, and chain-of-title issues.

His expert testimony experience includes deposition and trial testimony in matters involving title insurance, escrow duties, title practice, easements, tax sale validity, deeds of trust, probate property interests, real property ownership, water rights, policy coverage, marketability, reconveyance procedures, payoff demands, wire fraud, foreclosure processes, and escrow standard-of-care issues. His professional involvement includes the Southern Nevada Escrow Association, Nevada Escrow Association, American Escrow Association, Nevada Land Title Association, and National Alliance on Mental Illness.

His leadership and decision-making experience includes commercial and special projects responsibilities, title operations management, branch management, title and escrow underwriting decisions, claims investigation and settlement, employee recruitment, employee training, day-to-day department supervision, quality control procedures, and approval or resolution of high-liability and high-risk transactions. He has provided title and escrow training, continuing education and continuing legal education instruction involving title policies, endorsements, commercial lending requirements, escrow process, ALTA policy forms, commitments, documents, title examination, and title insurance underwriting.