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Expert witness concerning attorneys’ fees

Title: Expert witness concerning attorneys’ fees
URL: http://joelmarkesq.com/
Description: Joel Mark, ESQ offers Legal Litigation Malpractice Expert Witness & Consulting located in Los Angeles California (CA). Serving Worldwide Call: (805)701-7731. Mr. Mark has lectured on and has served as a consultant and expert witness concerning attorneys’ fees, legal ethics, litigation practice and procedure and law practice management issues in over 110 cases, including being retained as an independent expert by the Los Angeles County Superior Court and the State Bar of California. Specialty Focus: Attorney’s Fees, Attorney Fee Disputes, Legal Malpractice, Attorney Ethics, Law Practice Management, Law Firm Dissolution. Mr. Mark has lectured on and has served as a consultant and expert witness concerning attorneys’ fees, legal ethics, litigation practice and procedure and law practice management issues in over 110 cases, including being retained as an independent expert by the Los Angeles County Superior Court and the State Bar of California. As a member of the California State Bar Committee on Mandatory Fee Arbitration (Member 1993-1997, 2002-2008, 2014-2019; Chair 1997 and 2008; Presiding Arbitrator 2009-2012), Mr. Mark wrote the lesson plan for and moderated over thirty-five arbitrator training sessions and has presented numerous Section Education Institute, State Bar, CEB and other provider programs regarding attorneys’ fees, attorney ethics issues and litigation skills. Mr. Mark was the lead editor for the 1997 edition of the State Bar Form Attorneys’ Fee Agreements publication and participated in the update of the document in 2004, 2005 and 2010. Mr. Mark was a sole author or significant contributing author of approximately 15 of the Mandatory Fee Arbitration Committee’s published Arbitrator Advisories. Mr. Mark also has served on the State Bar Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (2000-2002). From 2010 to the present, Mr. Mark has been serving as a Special Deputy Trial Counsel in State Bar disciplinary matters, where he has handled over 20 such matters to date. Mr. Mark served two terms on the Baker & McKenzie Los Angeles Office Executive Committee (including acting as ethics partner for the merger of MacDonald, Halsted & Laybourne with Baker & McKenzie), as Chair of the Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton Litigation Group from 2002 through 2011, and as the Firm’s Managing Partner from 2010 through 2013.