Dr. James E. Shaw is a Superior Court-Certified Expert Witness and the author of the nationally-acclaimed book, "Jack and Jill, Why They Kill." Nationwide, he works with attorneys in Case Consultation, Litigation Support (including Report Writing and Testifying Under Oath), Deposition, and Trial Preparation. His past assignments range from celebrity cases (a homicide matter in the famed Conga Room Club owned by actors Jennifer Lopez and Jimmy Smits) to a U.S. Navy Court-Martial gang case to a federal court gang bank heist matter to a West Point Military Academy gang incident to school-related child sexual abuse occurrences to a Uzi-assault event resulting in triple murders to a gang assault-with-deadly-weapon on Los Angeles Police Officers. He is a former public school administrator and former prosecutor at the Norwalk Superior Court's (CA) Truancy Court.

He is the creator of the "Homicidally-at-Risk Adolescent Profile" (HARAP) instrument, used by the Law Office of the Los Angeles County Alternate Public Defender, and the B.R.A.V.E. ("Be Resilient Avoid Violence Everywhere") violence education and prevention curriculum, cited by the FBI/ATF as an intervention "model of best community practices." He is currently at work on a forthcoming book titled, "GANGrene: Youth Terrorism USA."

Additionally, he is a consultant and television personality for "Homegirls," a documentary for HBO on female gangs, co-produced by Father Gregory Boyle, of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and Luis Colina. Dr. Shaw has been a frequent guest on NBC Today Show; Good Morning America; MSNBC Live With Mitch Albom; CNN TalkBack; CBS EyeWitness News; Associated Press Radio; The Bill O'Reilly Show; and some 300 other radio and nationally-syndicated media outlets. He also writes and co-writes reality-based TV scripts and novels. "Girl Sinner, Lady Saint" is his novel, based on his four-year in-prison/in-person research on teenage girls serving time for homicide and murder. "The Life You Save" is his made-for-television screenplay, agented by the Sarnoff Company, about delinquent girls in a group home who try to go straight in a world full of curves.

He holds associate membership (No. 00711062) in the American Bar Association. For a number of years, he taught the "Administration of Justice: Juvenile Delinquency and Legal Procedures" courses at the El Camino Police Academy. Dr. Shaw will work with you to help you achieve your client-objectives. His professional background and expertise can be used to great advantage for you, and provide the winning edge. You may find more information about Dr. Shaw at his website, at www.expertincourt.blogspot.com. You may feel free to call him. He may be reached at (310) 678-6950.

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Besides a focus on discourse analysis and the discourses of law, Prof. Finegan’s research investigates language variation and English usage, including their treatment in dictionaries. Among his publications are Attitudes toward English Usage: The History of a War of Words (1980); Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register (co-edited, 1994); Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (co-authored, 1999); Language in the USA (co-edited, 2004); and Language: Its Structure and Use (2012). He has contributed chapters to the Cambridge History of the English Language (1998, 2001), The World’s Major Languages (2009), and A History of the English Language (2006). He has served on the editorial boards of American Speech; Corpora; Discourse Analysis; and English Language and Linguistics and as founding general editor of Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics. He is the delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies for the Dictionary Society of North America.

Focusing principally on linguistic aspects of contract interpretation, defamation, and trademark infringement, Prof. Finegan has consulted for scores of law firms in more than a dozen states, as well as for the offices of the Federal Public Defender and the California Attorney General. Currently vice-president of the International Association of Forensic Linguists, he will become president of the association in 2013. He served three times as president of the USC chapter of Phi Kappa Phi and is the recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award; he also served for two years as co-president of the University’s Lambda Alumni Association. He is the recipient of the Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching (1980) and has been honored by USC Dornsife College with the Albert S. Raubenheimer Distinguished Faculty Award (1981 and 2004) and its General Education Teaching Award (2001). Besides his work at CET, Prof. Finegan also chairs the University’s Oversight Committee on Athletic Academic Affairs.