The McEnery Company provides litigation support and expert witness services in disputes involving real property. Counsel, owners, lenders, and institutional stakeholders retain us when a matter requires defensible valuation, market analysis, and testimony that will hold up under examination.
Baldwin R. Justice, MAI heads the Litigation Support & Advisory Division of The McEnery Company and has been qualified as an expert witness in State, Federal, Bankruptcy, and United States Tax Court.
Our professionals have been qualified as expert witnesses in Federal District Court, Federal Bankruptcy Court, and State District Courts. Assignments have ranged from multi-district litigation and environmental stigma matters to eminent domain, lease disputes, and complex commercial rent determinations.
A detailed summary of our litigation support experience and representative clients is available upon request.
We were retained as the lead real estate expert by defense counsel for British Petroleum following the Deepwater Horizon incident, with involvement spanning more than three years and covering the Louisiana Coast and property-related cases as far as the Florida Panhandle. Comparable engagements include litigation support on the Bayou Corne sinkhole matter, before-and-after stigma analysis in the Chinese Drywall multi-district litigation in the Eastern District of Louisiana, and third-party mediation of a lease-rate dispute covering more than 1,000,000 square feet at PhilaPort.
Our litigation support work regularly draws on the firm’s valuation, brokerage, and consulting platforms so that opinions of value, market data, and related real property analysis are prepared as a single, coordinated work product.
A summary of our litigation support services includes:
- expert witness testimony in federal, bankruptcy, and state courts
- litigation appraisal and valuation for disputes involving real property
- before-and-after and stigma impact analysis
- eminent domain and condemnation support
- lease, rent, and contract dispute analysis
- ad valorem tax assessment appeal and negotiation
- market data collection, mapping, and property identification
- general dispute resolution and mediation support
