Expert Witness

Legal Experts, Engineering Consultants, Project Management, Product Liability

Cogent Provides Expert Witness and Subject Matter Experts (SME) Offerings for Construction, Standard of Care, Product Liability, Engineering

This page provides an overview of Expert Witness services at Cogent Experts, LLC spanning across design, engineering, construction, start-up, operations, production, maintenance and repair, among other categories. Included in Standard of Care both Design Standard of Care and Engineering Standard of Care.

Engineering Standard of Care

Cogent’s construction expertise includes project management, construction scheduling, construction defects, construction contracts, construction bidding, construction disputes and the like.

Product liability expertise includes product aspects including the development, design, engineering, production, mass production, supply chain, quality control, mechanical integrity, safety, reliability, etc.

A qualified expert is essential to any legal matter or case. Hire an expert witness at Cogent to leverage our extensive mix of education, training and real world industry experience.

A subject matter expert is “where the rubber meets the road,” for many legal cases and engineering claims. Having the proper, experienced expert can make or break the case.

In addition to our technology and engineering experience, Cogent has much experience in investigating matters as well as providing clear compelling evidence to illustrate a given matter. Whether your matter is engineering, construction, construction delay, manufacturing, accident or fire related, equipment failure, or intellectual property expertise, Cogent will provide a qualified subject matter expert.

Our subject matter experts provide a unique blend of experience not found at many other expert witness and forensics firms. Cogent has a cross-functional experience matrix comprising the many facets of business, design/engineering, technology, construction, commissioning, intellectual property, operations, maintenance etc.

Forensic Engineering

To understand design, engineering and construction matters fully requires a careful examination of many documents including bid documents, engineering and design drawings, as built drawings, project management records, project communication documents, engineering methods and calculations, planner and scheduler documentation and the like.

The forensic investigator on the case should develop a detailed understanding of contract requirements/documents, as well as schedule, change orders, proposed change orders and the like to be able to grasp the evolution of case facts over time. To do this properly, a qualified expert is needed.

Our experience shows that proper integration of forensic facts of a case by an expert witness will help uncover the true nature of a given legal claim or case.

One has to be careful in this industry about hiring an expert that lacks the expertise to integrate the required elements for a given legal matter or claim.

Cogent’s blended experiences in design engineering, construction, process engineering, mechanical – electrical – chemical – instrumentation – reliability engineering, operations and maintenance provide the perfect skills to best understand and present on a given claim.

With over 25 years of experience in engineering, design, manufacturing, product development, patents, and cost optimization, we will work hard to integrate your product’s key and most valuable features into your patent application.

Expert Witness and Forensics Industry Experience:

Consumer and Household Products – Stucco - Stucco Remediation - Construction Failures - Injuries - Information Systems (IT), Web & Internet Technology - Programming and Apps - Mechanical & Electromechanical Products – Tools – Power Tools – Physical Therapy Devices – Electronics – Safety and Construction Products – Automotive – Lawn and Garden – Heavy Equipment – Apparel – Paper and Textile Products – Machinery and Machine Tools – Software and Apps – Instrumentation Components – Building Materials – Insulation – Roofing Products – HVAC - Agricultural – Herbicides – Plastics – Polymers – Packaging – Specialty Products – Energy and Sustainability Products – Supermarkets – Refrigerants – Inks and Pigments – Facility and Real Estate Solutions – Chemical Applications – Military Products – Retail – Commercial and Industrial Products – Process Industry – Toys – Games – Furniture – Ergonomic Devices – Child and Baby Products – Batteries Power Supplies – Petrochemicals – Pharmaceuticals – Athletics – Coatings – Resins – Paint – Metallurgy – Farm and Agricultural – Biosciences – Materials

Expert witness and Forensics engineering