Joseph C. Slavis

Joe Slavis is a Senior Managing Director and Head of North America Construction, Projects & Assets. Mr. Slavis has more than 30 years of experience focused primarily on litigation consulting services.

Mr. Slavis provides expert testimony and consults on construction and litigation support matters, providing contract claims assistance and litigation support services relating to the calculation of and approach to damages. These damages include breach of contract, terminations for cause and convenience, lost profits, requests for equitable damages in delay and disruption cases and fraud-related issues.

Mr. Slavis is a certified construction auditor and has performed numerous construction cost audits and forensic reviews of construction projects where fraudulent activity was suspected. He has worked on a variety of projects, ranging from $50 million homes to multibillion-dollar plants. His project experience includes bridges, tunnels, multiuse towers, hotels, resorts, casinos, courthouses, multifamily developments, data centers, boilers, chemical plants and power plants.

Mr. Slavis has also assisted on cases involving shareholder class actions, intellectual property, breach of contract, white-collar crime and Rule 10b-5 securities class action Title VII discrimination. He has also performed corporate finance work involving the valuation of companies in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (“HVAC”), cable television, radio broadcasting, restaurant and telecommunications industries.

Relevant Experience:

• Assisted a global pipeline company with the analysis of costs and billings for a pipeline project in Canada
• Provided an expert report and expert testimony related to costs incurred and contract compliance on a $900 million natural gas pipeline project on behalf of the project owner
• Provided expert reports and rebuttal reports as well as expert witness testimony on behalf of the contractor of a $2.5 billion oil sands extraction facility in Canada
• Provided expert report and expert witness testimony for a drilling contractor related to additional costs incurred in closing a salt mine
• Provided expert report and testimony at arbitration for an 83-story multiuse high-rise, including the analysis of additional costs incurred due to hurricane damages