Jonathan M. Dunitz is Counsel with the Portland, ME law firm of Verrill Dana and is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts of Maine and the United States First Circuit Court of Appeals. He practices in the areas of complex commercial and business litigation, insurance coverage, complex family law matters, and appellate advocacy. Jonathan’s practice also includes providing counsel for excluding (or avoiding the exclusion) of financial experts, a topic on which he has written and spoken extensively. Jonathan is a co-editor and contributing author for The Comprehensive Guide to Lost Profits and Other Commercial Damages. He is a 1988 graduate of Ithaca College and a 1993 magna cum laude graduate of the Syracuse University College of Law where he was Lead Articles Editor of the Syracuse Law Review. He is also an accomplished photographer (his work can be viewed at www.jmdunitzstudios.com), a talent that he lends to Maine Greyhound Placement Services at the insistence of his own retired greyhound, Jasper.
His presentations on Daubert include: Discovery Overload and the Daubert Affect, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) National Forensic Accounting Conference; Lost Profit Damages: Controversial Issues & Lessons Learned from the Courts, AICPA National Forensic Accounting Conference; Lost Profit Damages – Keeping the Expert in the Case, NACVA/IBA Annual Conference; Keeping Your Expert in the Case: Avoiding the Landmines of Expert Exclusions, DRI Webcast 2011;
Lost Profit Damages: Lessons Learned from Motions to Exclude Financial Experts, BVR Webinar. His writing on Daubert, includes: Keeping Your Financial Damages Expert in the Case, March 2010 edition of DRI’s For the Defense; Daubert and the Financial Damages Expert, Spring 2011 edition of the Maine Bar Journal; and, Daubert in the Realm of Financial Damages Experts, published under the “Thought Leadership” banner of Willamette Management Associates’ Autumn 2011 edition of Insights. Jonathan is also a frequent CLE panelist including: The Valuation Conundrum: Making Sense of the Legal, Factual, and Accounting Concepts in Divorce Cases; Calculating Damages for Insured Claims; Legal Considerations in Valuations and Division of Assets and Debts in Divorce; Storytelling for Lawyers: How to Persuasively Present Your Client's Case; Freeze-Out, Fiduciary Duty and Oppression: Litigating Pursuant to the New Maine Business Corporations Statute; The Art of Written Advocacy: Drafting Persuasive, Concise and Creative Legal Briefs and Memorandum; Damages for Loss of Business or Business Opportunity; and, Business Interruption Insurance Coverage.