Product Failure Expert Witnesses

Tallahassee, Florida

Accident Reconstruction, Failure Analysis - Accident Reconstruction, Drone, Commercial Vehicles (CMVs), Pedestrians, Failure Analysis, Product Failure, Agricultural Equipment, Video Analysis, Slip Trip and Falls, Event Data Recorders (EDR), Motorcycles, GPS, Downloads, Mechanical Component Investigation, Bicycles, Infotainment

Jake Boynton is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) specializing in accident reconstruction, failure analysis, and slip, trip and falls. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Central Florida and is a certified Crash Data Retrieval (CDR) technician, SolidWorks Professional in Mechanical Design, and licensed drone pilot. Jake has investigated hundreds of accidents ranging from passenger vehicles, motorcycles, pedestrians, and commercial motor vehicles.

Tallahassee, Florida

Products Liability, Mechanical Engineering - Chair, Chair failure, Chair design, furniture design, consumer products, product, product failure, industrial machine failure, industrial accident, agricultural product, agricultural accident, machine failure, fire truck apparatus, mechanical failure, mechanical product, chair accident, chair collapse, plastic chair, weld failure

Professional Engineer licensed in Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. Board Certified Forensic Engineer (National Association of Forensic Engineers). Product design engineer for Cummins, Emergency One Incorporated (Fire Apparatus), and Alliance Laundry Systems (Laundry and dry-cleaning equipment) prior to Forensic Consulting. Authored a peer-reviewed paper " Forensic Engineering Analysis of Common Failures and Inspection Procedures for Residential and Commercial Chairs" (NAFE 2020).

Dallas, Texas

Engineering, Software Engineering - Semiconductors, Semiconductor Mfg, Software IP, Patent Litigation, Trade Secrets, Source Code, Embedded Systems, ASIC Modeling, Wafer Fabrication, Yield Forecasting, Manufacturing Systems, Product Failure, Reliability Testing, Electronics Design, Process Engineering, International Disputes, Expert Testimony, Federal Court, Arbitration

Richard Fincher is a consulting and testifying expert witness in semiconductors, software intellectual property, patents, and advanced manufacturing systems. He supports litigation teams in U.S. Federal and State Courts, JAMS arbitration, and PRC civil proceedings, delivering clear, technically rigorous, and defensible expert analysis. Mr. Fincher specializes in ASIC cost and yield modeling, wafer manufacturing economics, and semiconductor process engineering. His experience includes deep analysis of cost models, yield forecasting, and wafer-level fabrication data used to assess production efficiency, defect causes, and technology node economics. He has provided testimony and reports on software source code, trade secret misappropriation, and patent validity/non-infringement across both hardware and software domains. With over 40 years of global engineering and executive leadership, Mr. Fincher has served as Vice President of Engineering, Chief Technology Officer, and General Mana...