Trial Tutorials Examination of Experts

Ben Sheppard is a Director with Berkeley Research Group in Los Angeles.  Ben is a CPA and a Certified Valuation Analyst, and has over 35 years of professional experience, and over 30 years of entertainment industry experience.  Ben serves as an economic damages and forensic accounting expert witness, having testified more than 90 times.  Ben also has had long-time leadership positions with both the ABA Forum on Entertainment and Sports, as well as the annual CalCPA Entertainment Industry Conference.

Michael Geibelson is a Partner at Robins Kaplan LLP. Michael Geibelson is the Past Chair of the California State Bar’s Litigation Section and a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL), the premier organization of U.S. real estate lawyers.

Michael is a business trial lawyer who represents individuals and businesses including retailers, restaurateurs, developers, technology and cannabis companies, and partnership participants in real estate and other business disputes involving false advertising and unfair competition, class actions, misappropriation of trade secrets, supply agreements, copyright and trademark. He frequently publishes and speaks on topics concerning litigation skills and strategies to make litigation, electronic discovery, and trial more efficient and less costly.

Michael has extensive trial experience, and has secured victories for his clients at trial in a wide range of cases: from the representation of a foreclosing lender in the termination of a lease for a state-of-the art cannabis production facility, to the decertification of a class action involving alleged privacy violations with exposure to statutory damages of more than $1 Billion, to violations of the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act.

Michael is extensively involved in community and legal affairs. In addition to his work with the Litigation Section, he is a member of the Board of the Bandini Foundation (operator of the Heroes Golf Course at the West Los Angeles VA), the Advisory Board of Angel City Sports (a paralympics organization) the past chair of the Editorial Board of Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine, and has performed extensive pro bono work involving adoptions, environmental issues and small business disputes.

Rudolph Lehrer, CFLS, is principal of Lehrer Law APC, and handles complex family law matters from inception through settlement or trial. Mr. Lehrer was previously a partner with Jaffe & Clemens in Beverly Hills. Before joining Jaffe & Clemens, Mr. Lehrer practiced at Morrison Cohen LLP in New York City, handling a wide range of business litigation matters in state and federal courts, and arbitrations. Mr. Lehrer previously served as Chair of the Litigation Section of the Beverly Hills Bar Association; he currently serves on BHBA’s Board of Governors.