Litigation Consulting & Expertise

To the attorney who requires trusted advice on matters that involve big data and complex technology products, J.L. Sutherland & Associates provides superior counsel because of our deep expertise in data, technology, and econometric methodologies, which today are inseparable from quality litigation support.

We provide analysis using scientifically established best practice methods and data, and we are especially competitive in complex cases where other leading firms cannot execute on a quality analysis because of a lack of experience and technological capability.

When it is the data analysis or technology expertise that will make or break the case, we are the most capable partner to have.

Dr. Joe Sutherland, President & CEO

Our lead expert, Dr. Joe Sutherland, is lead principal investigator of the Emory branch of the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium, associate faculty at the Empathetic AI for Health Institute at Emory Healthcare, fellow of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Public Policy, and Government at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a professor in Emory’s Department of Quantitative Theory & Methods. His research exploring the utilization of machine learning and AI in congressional lawmaking, state policy leadership, and development economics is published in top peer-reviewed journals, including the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, and Energy. He holds patents for systems that manage and analyze petabyte-level databases, apply machine learning to unstructured data, and artificial intelligence systems that make judgments about the information they observe. His new book, Analytics the Right Way: A Guide for Business Leaders to Data, Analytics and AI will be released in January. His work has been featured on FOX 5 Good Day Atlanta, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Forbes, Georgia Trend, Government Technology, MIT Sloan Management Review, and many other venues. Sutherland earned his PhD, MPhil, and master’s degrees from Columbia University and his bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis.

What We Do

We provide litigation support, testimony, and consulting services to clients involved in a range of data-intensive commercial disputes, investigations, and litigation. Specializing in high-stakes, complex cases, we work collaboratively to create appropriate, well-reasoned research and analyses, reports, and expert testimony. J.L. Sutherland & Associates applies exceptional rigor to ensure arguments are thoroughly substantiated by facts, use proven scientific methodologies, and are easily understood using common sense language.

As a small, expert-driven shop, we commit ourselves to a deep understanding of the matter at hand and are highly available to our greatly valued clients. Our analyses are of the highest standard, and as such, we’ve an earned unmatched trust for our analytic and economic solutions. Our cloud infrastructure is tuned to manage and process petabytes of data in a secure workspace. We’re known for succeeding in cases where other experts could not.

Litigation Support Services

Our portfolio of litigation support services provides clients with exceptional quality and expanded capability. The quality and capability of our services often leads to insights and opportunities that clients would otherwise have missed. We offer for litigation support the following services and solutions.

Pre-Complaint & Preliminary Analysis

• Complex commercial liability and damages, including:
  • Lost profits, breach of contract, business interruption, royalties and licensing agreements, fraud, insurance claims, punitive damages, and class actions, in a variety of industries
• Intellectual property liability and damages.
• Product liability and damages.
• Public nuisance liability and damages.
• Insurance liability and damages.
• Other damages cases where probability sampling is required.
• Technological feasibility analysis.
• Analyzing data discovered in other cases to prospect new cases. 
• Case approach and strategy—what is be needed by when.

Discovery

• Prepare written analyses and reports.
• Evaluate theories and damages claims from opposition.
• Provide deposition testimony and questions for opposition.
• Support documentation requests and inventories.
• Manage large databases of structured and unstructured data.
• Apply machine learning to tabulate data from PDFs.
• Annotate documents, images, and databases with additional information to assist in searchability and analysis (e.g. using our AI capabilities to automatically tag images for objects, people, concepts, or group composition; perform facial recognition).
• Provide unified search capabilities across scanned documents, im- ages, large databases, excel files, and source code.
• Forensic review of source code and other intellectual property.
• Domain specific analysis, including social media analytics, call detail record telemetry, medical history construction, anomaly detection, and natural language processing.

Trial Preparation

• Prepare exhibits.
• Critique old and prepare new analyses.
• Provide inventories for testimony and cross-examination
• Provide explanatory counsel on issues of analysis and method.
• Provide counsel on opposition’s expert opinion.
• Assist in inventory and status of outstanding discovery requests.

Trial or Settlement

• Present liability or damages case.
• Provide expert testimony.
• Conduct real-time trial analysis.
• Provide tactical trial support.
• Respond to unexpected motions or developments. 
• Support structured settlement discussions.

“Dr. Sutherland provided valuable expertise as an expert witness in our case, specifically analyzing telemetry records and conducting geospatial analysis. His work was thorough, well-documented, and clearly presented, making complex data science analysis accessible and understandable. Dr. Sutherland’s testimony was instrumental in supporting our arguments, and his professionalism throughout the process was greatly appreciated. I would not hesitate to engage his services again in similar matters.”

Javier Benavides, Benavides & Robles

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