Element's clients from legal and insurance firms need expert witnesses to provide testimony with a high level of service, precision and expertise. We offer materials science and engineering litigation services to a wide range of industries, including aerospace, product manufacturing, biomedical and medical devices, automotive, oil & gas, construction, and more.
About our expert witnesses and laboratories
Element engineers and scientists possess work experience, advanced degrees, and certifications in many subdisciplines including Materials Science & Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Polymer Science, Metallurgical Engineering, Welding, and Corrosion. We have established chain-of-evidence procedures and locked legal storage to properly handle evidence in accordance with established standards (e.g., ASTM standard practices E860, E1188, and E1492).
Among other qualifications, Element expert witnesses specialize in:
- Detecting defects or evidence of abuse
- Determining physical, mechanical or chemical properties of materials
- Assisting with subrogation claims
- Developing precision evidence analysis protocols
- Determining specification compliance
- Evaluating patent infringement
- Responding to Daubert challenge
- Delivering detailed and convincing deposition and trial testimony
- Advanced instrumentation and qualified expertise
In support of our legal and insurance investigations, Element laboratories house highly advanced analytical instrumentation, such as state-of-the-art Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) equipped with ultrathin window Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) systems, Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) for molecular analysis.
Supporting lawyers and claims adjusters with complete testing programs
Element laboratories serve individual or groups of legal and insurance customers, including joint plaintiff and defendant investigations for litigating parties. Element engineers are also able to coordinate testing with outside engineering expert, testing, and support firms. Our staff frequently arrange for video documentation of joint investigations; we author articles, testing protocols and issue third party reports with or without expert opinion. Visit our Experts page to browse Element Corrosion Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Metallurgical Engineers, Polymer Engineers, Chemists and Chemical Engineers, Welding Engineers, and more.