Former Federal District Judge Joins DOAR As An Affiliate

Judge Shira Scheindlin Will Provide Expertise & Insight In Complex Cases

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Mar 14, 2018, 08:30 ET

NEW YORK, March 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- DOAR, Inc., a legal consulting and testifying expert company, welcomed The Honorable Shira Scheindlin, a distinguished former federal judge, as a DOAR Affiliate. Judge Scheindlin will provide DOAR and its clients with valuable, strategic insights based on decades of presiding over significant criminal and civil cases in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She joins an extensive network of DOAR affiliates that includes many of the world's leading legal consulting and testifying experts across a wide range of fields.

"Judge Scheindlin's experience and credibility are well-known and highly respected," said DOAR Chief Executive Officer Paul Neale. "In addition to serving as a judge or arbitrator during mock trials and hearings, Judge Scheindlin will be available as a trial strategy consultant and testifying expert, providing critical perspectives into complex, high-profile legal matters. We are privileged to have Judge Scheindlin affiliated with the company."

Judge Scheindlin is available to DOAR and its clients as a judicial consultant and an expert in federal, civil and criminal law, as well as New York law. She is an expert in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence with specific expertise in personal jurisdiction, choice of law, class certification, and venue, as well as substantive areas of law such as securities, employment and intellectual law, among others. She will be an important addition to DOAR's experienced consulting teams and its impressive bench of expert witnesses. Judge Scheindlin's Affiliate bio can be found here.

"I am honored to join DOAR's outstanding network of experts and hope that my experience will prove useful to litigants and law firms working with DOAR," said Judge Scheindlin.

Since retiring from the federal bench in May of 2016, Judge Scheindlin has been Of Counsel at Stroock & Stroock & Levan in New York and served as a mediator, arbitrator and expert witness. She has also been very active in social causes including the rights of immigrants and assisting companies in proactively addressing sexual harassment risk.

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