Effective expert witness work in privacy and health information law requires a rare combination: command of the underlying legal and regulatory framework, the technical capability to reconstruct what actually happened with data, and the ability to translate both for a lay audience — judges, jurors, arbitrators, and regulators.
This practice provides expert witness services and litigation support in matters involving HIPAA compliance, data breach, online tracking and pixel forensics, de-identification, information blocking, and related areas of health information law and cybersecurity. Services are available to plaintiff and defense counsel, institutional parties, and regulators.
Recently Retained as Expert Witness. Mr. Weil has been retained as an expert witness in data breach litigation. Counsel seeking expert witness services in HIPAA compliance, health information privacy, and cybersecurity matters are invited to inquire.
Expert opinion on whether a covered entity or business associate complied with HIPAA’s Privacy Rule, Breach Notification Rule, or Security Rule. Engagements include expert report drafting, deposition preparation, and testimony in arbitration and litigation. Prior work includes expert opinion on HIPAA’s de-identification standard for a clinical data registry and AI analytics platform.
Forensic analysis of cookies, pixels, session replay tools, and other tracking technologies deployed on health care websites and applications. Determination of what data was collected, transmitted, and potentially disclosed to third parties. Prior engagements include support in multiple class actions, arbitrations, and regulatory enforcement actions — drafting expert reports, preparing lead experts for deposition, and advising counsel on privacy compliance arguments.
Expert analysis of compliance with ONC’s Information Blocking Rule and Interoperability Rule. Prior engagement includes serving as part of a testifying expert team in an arbitration dispute between a large health system and a national health insurer regarding the application and scope of Information Blocking compliance requirements.
Non-testifying consulting support for legal teams navigating the technical and regulatory dimensions of health information disputes. Services include issue spotting, research support, deposition preparation, discovery strategy, and regulatory interpretation.
Expert witness credibility in this field rests on more than credentials. The most effective experts combine substantive regulatory knowledge with direct operational experience — having actually managed the kinds of programs, incidents, and decisions at issue in the litigation.
Mr. Weil brings both. He has served as chief privacy officer and compliance counsel in operational roles at health systems, physician groups, universities, and life science organizations. He has managed large-scale HIPAA breaches, conducted forensic website analyses, authored de-identification expert reports, and advised legal teams in matters involving the very regulatory frameworks on which he testifies.