Illinois
Paul M. Adee
Paul Adee is a corrections expert with over three decades of experience in correctional and courthouse facilities. As an expert at Robson Forensic, Paul’s forensic casework involves the policies, procedures, and incident-specific actions of law enforcement and corrections personnel and agencies, including correctional operations, law enforcement & detention training, use of force investigations and policies, inmate healthcare, in-custody deaths, transportation of county and federal inmates, and courthouse security.
Bryan Ricchetti, Ph.D.
Vice President and Co-Head of Antitrust Practice, Cornerstone Research
Elisa M. Olivieri, Ph.D.
Elisa Olivieri provides economic analysis in matters related to antitrust and labor economics, with a focus on issues involving race, gender, and age discrimination. Dr. Olivieri works with attorneys in all phases of the litigation process, and supports experts through discovery and trial.
Antitrust and competition
Dr. Olivieri analyzes class certification, liability, and damages in antitrust and competition matters, including:
Fields v. City of Chicago, et al.
Plaintiff was wrongfully convicted of a 1984 double homicide and sentenced to death, then re-tried and acquitted in 2009. Plaintiff alleged that Defendant Officers fabricated false eyewitness identifications and false inculpatory testimony from informants, and suppressed exculpatory evidence by burying it in a street file. Plaintiff alleged that the suppression of the street file was caused by the policies and practices of the City of Chicago. The Defendants contended that Plaintiff was guilty of the double homicide.
Hobson v. Lake County
Mentally ill man, afraid to drink anything but bottled water, allowed to die of dehydration in jail; neglect of his serious psychiatric needs; survived by his mother.
Thomas v. Cook County
32 y.o. man denied medical care in jail died of meningitis and pneumonia while jailers assumed he was detoxing from heroin; survived by mother.
Hope v. City of Chicago
Police shot African-American man accused of trying to run over officers with a vehicle; survived by 5 y.o. son.
Coleman v. City of Chicago
38 y.o., disruptive, mentally ill man, dragged from jail cell, beaten, and repeatedly Tased to death; survived by parents.