• Electrical accidents and injuries
  • Electric Shock
  • Electrocution
  • Electrical Fire
  • Electric Explosion
  • Electrical Flash Burn
  • Medical Devices
• Electromechanical accidents and injuries
  • Electric Power tools
  • Electrical Heat
  • Automation
  • Electrical Safety
• Mechanical accidents and injuries
  • Machinery injuries (guarding)
  • Other mechanical injuries or damages
  Product liability (defective products)
• Product conformance to contract
• Patents and trade secrets
• (NOT slip & fall or building defects other than electrical)

Both electrical and mechanical engineering college study and many years of electrical and mechanical design engineering experience are backgrounds for my analyses of accidents. 38 patents and a university study of patent law are backgrounds for my patent analyses.

Typically you first retain me as a consultant with priviledged communication. I help you collect evidence, then I study the evidence and form an opinion. If my opinion is favorable to your case you designate me as an expert witness. If my opinion is unfavorable, you use it as an aid in conducting your case and I disappear. "I calls 'em as I sees 'em." Often I provide a tutorial on the technology involved to help you conduct your case.

I work for both plaintiffs and defendants. My testimony has won million dollar cases.

There is no charge for an introductory discussion of your case. Telephone me, Lawrence Kamm, at 619-224-3494.

For the web site listing my cases:

Expert Witness Cases

For the web site showing letters of reference from attorneys:

Letters of Reference

For my full CV: Education and professional and business career and detailed listing of degrees, licenses, positions, memberships, issued patents, books and other publications, and businesses based on my invented products:

• Lawrence Kamm
• 1515 Chatsworth Blvd.
• San Diego CA 92107
• Phone: 619-224-3494
• e-mail: ljkamm@ljkamm.com

My formal education includes a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia in 1941, a Master of Electrical Engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1946, mechanical engineering courses in Columbia, the patent law course in Columbia in 1946 and passage of the US Patent Office Examination for Patent Attorneys and Agents.

Professional Engineer licenses from New York, Maryland, and California (California Professional Engineer License E5897) and was a Registered Patent Agent and a Certified Manufacturing Engineer (SME).

Professional societies include Sigma Xi, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE, Life Member), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), National Academy of Forensic Engineers (NAFE), San Diego Forensic Consultants Association (SDFCA), American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), and, when working in those fields, American Rocket Society [now American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)], Society of Manufacturing Engineers(SME), and Robot Institute, Member NAPIL

Before becoming an expert witness I worked as an employed engineer in both small and large companies, as an entrepreneur (Numerical Control Corp., Devonics, Inc., Typagraph Corp., Mobot Corp., L. J. Kamm Co.), as a teacher and author in design theory and practice, and as a consulting engineer, inventor, and author.

Invention and design of mechanical and electro-mechanical devices of great diversity. These include robots, numerical controls, computer peripherals, space vehicles and components, simulators, a mail sorter memory, a heart-lung machine, automatic test-and-sort and other manufacturing equipment for semi-conductors and other products, transducers, switchgear, engine components, and the Decimal Keeper slide rule (now in the Smithsonian and Oxford Science Museums.) As a consultant, creation of new products and product improvements for many clients. 38 patents.

Publication or presentation of seven books, 27 technical papers, many tutorials, and much trade literature and have lectured at three universities and several companies. A regular column in Electronic Design and frequent tutorials in Chipcenter.com. A lecture series on "Energy" at UCSD. Consulted by the National Academy of Science to evaluate grant proposals.

Lectured at the University of California San Diego on: Energy, Man-In-Space, and the Challenger Disaster and given a course based on my book, "Real-World Engineering."