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Ms. Franks is the President & CEO of TGE Resources, Inc. She has testified under oath in trial and her testimony has been used in multiple court settings - state and federal; her opinion has never been struck. She has been deposed (opinion rendered under oath) over 25 times.
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Environmental Experts
We are practicing environmental experts who bring relevancy to any solicited engagement; we maintain a high level of capability because we continue to work in industry. To view more information about our leading expert witness, please chick here to view Ms. Frank's profile.
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Industry Knowledge
We recognize that any project assignment from day to day has the potential to involve costly third-party litigation regardless of the quality of our work. While TGE has never experienced loss or litigation under engaged client work, we have been retained by clients and/or client counsel in over 65 litigation-related engagements. TGE's litigation-experienced professionals, including Ms. Franks are prepared to assist clients across the firm's service capabilities and industries served.
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Explementary Record
We continually do our part to exercise a high standard of care and professionalism in executing our technical work with third-party client litigation risk being of key consideration. With approximately equal defense and plaintiff representation, our expert engagements have involved highly contaminated real estate, diverse building science complaints, potential exposures to hazardous materials and situations in the workplace, allegations of wrongful death, and a wide variety of unique and specialized concerns that resulted in litigation. The expert work and testimony of TGE and Ms. Franks has never been successfully challenged, struck, or disallowed in any capacity.
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Robust Experience
Practicing TGE experts, including Ms. Franks as the firm's lead, have extensive experience in pre-trial preparation, discovery, videoed and in-person testimony under oath, as well as multi-venue trial appearances across the U.S. Significant and high value engagements have involved state Superfund litigation; asbestos contamination to a high-profile State-owned facility; hydrocarbon release (under well blowout) to sensitive agriculture-use land (class action); and a high-profile construction defect case within a newly constructed multi-family community, to name a few.
