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(1) Relevant prior and part-time employment, with dates:

(2) Degrees and relevant special training:

(3) Other professional activities, etc:

(4) Retainer information:


(5) Names, addresses and telephone numbers of attorneys who may be contacted as references:

(6) Publications that contain your paid advertisement (since 1996):

None

(7) Usual and customary fee:

$5,000 retainer for preliminary review and case assessment up to 8 hours; $375 per hour for document review, meetings, reports, depositions; plus customary travel, per diem, and any out-of-pocket expenses incurred (excluding general office expenses); $3,000 per day or part day in court or hearing; and $1,000 per round-trip outside California.

(8) Areas of Expertise and Experience:

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(9) Types of cases you will not accept:

(10) Other information relevant in evaluating your services (publications, awards, achievements, special interests):

PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY:

·         “Conducted Energy Weapons: A User’s Perspective,” book chapter for TASER® Electronic Control Devices: Physiology, Pathology, and Law, in collaboration with numerous doctors and medical examiners, a 32-chapter book (published by Springer, March 2009)

·         “TASER Inventor Jack Cover, Rest in Peace,” article, PoliceOne.com (March 2009)

·        “Emergency Room Doctor Survey re Police ‘Excessive Force’ . . . Ouch!” article, PoliceOne.com (Jan. 2009)

·        “The Latest Amnesty International Report on Electronic Weapons, article, PoliceOne.com (Dec. 2008)

·        “Another Federal Court Supports Officers in TASER Lawsuit,” article, PoliceOne.com (Oct. 2008)

·        “TASER Incidents in the News,” article, PoliceOne.com (Sept. 2008)

·        “Telling Your Story,” article, PoliceOne.com (August 2008)

·        “A Checklist to Enhance Your Nonlethal Weapons Program,” journal article, California Peace Officer, (Fall 2008)

·        “Nonlethal Weapons: The Promise and the Challenge,” journal article, Law Enforcement Executive Forum (July 2008)

·        “Little Words, Big Consequences,” article, PoliceOne.com (June 2008)

·        “Court Backs TASER Use,” article, PoliceOne.com (April 2008)

·        “Taking on the Media,” article, PoliceOne.com (February 2008)

·        “Tons of TASER News,” article, PoliceOne.com (October 2007)

·        “TASER Tactics, Training Injuries, and the Kitchen Sink,” article, PoliceOne.com (August 2007)

·        “Do Away with the Anyways,” article, PoliceOne.com (June 2007)

·        “They’re Still Out There,” article, PoliceOne.com (April 2007)

·        “One-on-One, in the Backyard,” article, PoliceOne.com (Feb. 2007)

·        “The Gap: How Loss of the Neck Restraints Led to the Rodney King Incident,” article, PoliceOne.com (January 2007)

·        “Rodney King Revisited,” article, PoliceOne.com (December 2006)

·        “Police Force, in Color,” article, published on the LAPD website blog (mentioned by the Los Angeles Times 11-14-06), also published under various titles by PoliceOne.com, American Police Beat, and The Beat (LAPD) (November-December 2006)

·        “TASER Tactics Update,” article, PoliceOne.com (October 2006)

·        *“Caught on Tape . . . Nice Save!” article, PoliceOne.com    (September 2006)

·        *“Resources for Sudden In-Custody Deaths,” article, PoliceOne.com (August 2006)

·        “Tactical Hindsight: Tactics and equipment have improved in the last 30 years, but the job of law enforcement remains the same,” article, POLICE magazine’s 30th anniversary issue (October 2006)

·        “Horsing Around and Weapons Retention,” article, PoliceOne.com (July 2006)

·        “Hands-on versus Nonlethal Weapons,” article, PoliceOne.com (June 2006)

·         “Nonlethal Weapons: Early use means fewer deaths and injuries” article, PoliceOne.com (May 2006)

·        “Nonlethal or Less-Lethal: Does it matter?,” article, PoliceOne.com (April 2006)

·        “Nonlethal Weapons: What’s Up?,” article, PoliceOne.com (March 2006)

·        [The above three articles for PoliceOne.com are the first three in a continuing monthly series]

·        “Train to Win Quickly,” article, “Police” magazine (November 2004)

·        “Efforts to Find Less-Lethal Weapons Miss Their Mark,” op-ed article, Los Angeles Daily Journal (June, 2002)                                                  

·        “Choices,” article, “Police” magazine, regarding inspiring police officer productivity on the front line in an unsupportive environment (June, 2002)                                

·        “Overcoming Reluctance to Use Legitimate Force,” article, The Law Enforcement Trainer, American Society for Law Enforcement Training (pending in Spring, 2001)

·        “Knockdowns in the New Millennium,” article, “Police” magazine, October, 2000; adapted from my lecture to the Urban Alliance on Race Relations conference, “Alternatives to the Use of Lethal Force by Police” in Toronto, Canada in June, 2000

·          “Risk Management at the Front Line,” article, The Law Enforcement Trainer, American Society for Law Enforcement Training (Fall, 2000)

·          “Current Use of Force Issues,” article, The Law Enforcement Trainer, American Society for Law Enforcement Training (Winter, 2000)

·          “Use of Force by Law Enforcement Officers,” chapter requested by Dr. Michael K. Hooper, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, for the textbook Handbook on Criminal Justice Administration, published September, 2000

·          “40 Minutes in North Hollywood,” follow-up article on the famous LAPD Bank of America shoot-out, Police magazine (June, 1997)

·          “LAPD Faces Urban Warfare in North Hollywood Bank Shoot-Out,” article, Police magazine (April, 1997). (This article was republished as the centerpiece of the LAPD’s 1997 Annual Report.)

·          “Quality Improvement in Law Enforcement,” article, Journal of California Law Enforcement (July, 1996)

·          “Nonlethal Weapons: Empirical Evidence,” article, The Encyclopedia of Police Science, 2nd Edition (1995)

·         “Misguided Use of Force,” opinion article, Los Angeles Daily Journal (July 1994); reprinted under various headlines by the Journal of the American Society for Law Enforcement Training (July/August, 1994), The Journal (Fall 1994), American Police Beat (Nov/Dec 1994), and others ****                                   

·         “Finding a Safe Way to Subdue Violent Suspects,” opinion article, Los Angeles Times (June, 1994); also published other different headlines in Law Enforcement News (May, 1994) and The Thin Blue Line (July, 1994)                    

·         “Rodney King: The Lessons to be Learned,” article, Journal of California Law Enforcement (March, 1994)                                                                               

·         “The Police Need More Humane Ways to Subdue Resisting Suspects,” opinion article, The Los Angeles Daily Journal (August, 1993)                                           

·         “The King-Case Verdicts Angered Me: Those Truly Responsible Got Off,” opinion article, The Los Angeles Times (April, 1993)

·         “Nonlethal Weapons,” Defensive Tactics Newsletter (quarterly), seven-part series (January, 1993 through July, 1994)

·         “Nonlethal Weapons vs. Conventional Police Tactics: Assessing Injuries and Liabilities,” article, The Police Chief (August, 1992) *

·         “Knockdown Update,” self-published quarterly newsletter (August 1992 through October 1994). “The Sorry State of Police Tactics,” opinion article, distributed by the New York Times Special Features Syndicate; also appeared in Crime Control Digest, Training Aids Digest, and the Los Angeles Daily Journal (May, 1992) *

·         “Nonlethal Weapons: Where Do They Fit?,” article, Journal of California Law Enforcement, three-part series (1992)

·         “Ode to the Taser Gun,” opinion article, Los Angeles Daily Journal (April, 1991).

·         “Nonlethal Weapons Cut Law Enforcement Risks,” opinion article, Long Beach Independent Press Telegram (April, 1991) *

·         “Nonlethal Weapons vs. Conventional Police Tactics: The Los Angeles Police Department Experience,” master’s thesis (March, 1991) * ** *** *****

·         “Watch Commander’s Guide for Control of Disasters and Other Emergencies,” LAPD Tactical Planning Section (1982)

·         “Your Nonlethal Weapons Alternatives,” article, Journal of California Law Enforcement; reprinted as the California Specialized Training Institute’s lesson plan on nonlethal weapons (1981)

* Referenced in “Deadly Force: What We Know,” William A. Geller and Michael S. Scott, Police Executive Research Forum (1992)

** Referenced in “Selecting Nonlethal Weapons,” Lois Pilant, The Police Chief (May, 1993)

*** Referenced in Criminal Justice, 3rd Ed., Joel Samaha, West Publishing Company (1994)

**** Referenced in And Justice for All, Geller and Toch, Police Executive Research Forum (1995)

***** Referenced in Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD, Lou Cannon, Times Books (1997)

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