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Primary Area of Expertise

Snow/Winter Sports

Expert Witness Profile

Mr. Wall serves as an Expert Witness, Forensic Specialist, and Consultant for the Snowsports industry. As a Certified Ski Instructor and leader in the Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA), and Professional Engineer, Mr. Wall specializes in opining on issues arising from on-hill group activities including group and private ski lessons, ski and snowsports schools, and race team operations. These services include forensic analysis and expert witness for on-hill group supervision, situational safety, program components, facility conditions, standard-of-care, negligence, duty, breach, causation, and harm, litigation support; and expert testimony. Mr. Wall has been a Board Member, Divisional Chairman, Examiner and Clinician for multiple PSIA Regions, is currently the Owner and Principal of an expert witness, forensic analysis, Civil Engineering, and Land Planning firm, and an education firm that provides professional development by teaching professional, organizational, and soft skills. Mr. Wall is a member of the Professional Education Staff for PSIA Northern Intermountain (PSIA-NI).

At age 51, Mr. Wall was admitted to the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. At age 53, after two years of intensive research and peer reviewed writing, Mr. Wall graduated with his MPA and a 3.97 grade point average. Mr. Wall’s graduate level research and writing skills give him the ability to originate unbiased expert reports containing convincing fact-based narratives. Mr. Wall possesses the ideal skill set for Expert Witness work, grounded in his pursuit of lifelong learning, business acumen, Civil Engineering practice, graduate level forensic research and writing, and entrepreneurial mastery. This highly developed skill set gives Mr. Wall the ability to write high impact Expert Reports and provide expert testimony that explains complex concepts in plain easy to understand language.

Grounded in over 46-years of broad and deep experience in the Snow Sports industry, love of mountain sports, and as an expert witness and forensic specialist, Mr. Wall leverages a finely honed set of soft and technical skills in an innovative, relationship-based, collaborative, and iterative approach to create extraordinary human interactions and consistently deliver high value litigation outcomes.

Key Words:
Ski Accident Reconstruction, Collisions, Snowmaking Equipment, snowmaking vehicle, Ski School, ski lessons, trail signs, trial markings, padding, rope lines, flagging, risk management, safety, snow tubing, chairlift, avalanche, hazard, ski patrol, ski area operations, terrain park, trail design

Education & Licenses

B.S., Civil Engineering, University of California at Davis 1984
M.A., Public Administration, Montana State University Bozeman 2011

Level 3 Certified Telemark Ski Instructor, PSIA
Level 2 Certified Alpine Ski Instructor, PSIA
Accredited Children's Educator, Children Specialist 2, PSIA
Professional Engineer (PE) – Civil, State of CA, CO, ID, MT, NV, OR, WA, WY