Specific Comments about Litigation Support

In 1993’s Daubert v. Merrell-Dow decision, the Supreme Court ruled that trial courts must make value judgments about the quality of expert witness testimony and evidence. Initially this test applied only to scientific evidence but, in 1999, the Supreme Court extended the Daubert criteria to non-scientific experts. The Supreme Court recognized that it would be very difficult for district courts to make a distinction between scientific knowledge and technical or other specialized knowledge.

Although Greenfield Advisors had already been in business for nearly two decades before either of these decisions, the ruling validated the need to use only the best consultants whose credentials were impeccable and whose methods were tested and proven. Since then, Greenfield has authored a significant library of work on valuation in the litigation context, particularly in areas such as survey research, real estate class-action certification, toxic tort litigation, and complex eminent domain cases. We have testified in many of the most prominent cases in America, from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill to post-Katrina litigation in New Orleans. Much of our published work is available here on our website.