Biography
Dr. John D. Gilleland is a Senior Litigation Consultant at Magna Legal Services, a full-service litigation consulting and strategic communications firm with offices in Chicago, Delaware, Ft. Lauderdale, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New Jersey, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Tampa, and Boston, Washington DC.
Dr. Gilleland provides research-based and experiential data analysis to trial teams throughout the country. He has worked on all types of high-profile and large-exposure litigation, including literally dozens of matters each within the areas of antitrust, product liability, intellectual property, labor & employment, professional malpractice, environmental, and securities. He consults on national litigation matters pertaining to a variety of industries, including construction, automotive, airline, pharmaceutical, petroleum/petrochemical, biotech, manufacturing, and medical. He is also an expert in the fields of witness preparation, having worked with hundreds of witnesses, including assisting with witness training schools for multiple firms involved with forensic accounting services. Dr. Gilleland has also participated in over 350 jury selections, assisting counsel with oral & written voir dire, the construction of supplemental juror questionnaires, and actual in-court jury selections.
One of Dr. Gilleland’s specialty areas of work is in assistance with all types of intellectual property disputes, for which he has conducted mock jury research on over 80 fact patterns. Along with patent matters, he has worked on literally dozens of fact patterns involving trademark and/or copyright issues, including but not limited to claims of copied software code, computer programs, program routines, and music.
A full-time jury consultant and researcher since 1988, he has been in the national spotlight on numerous occasions and has appeared as a commentator on both local and national talk shows and has been quoted in a wide range of media, including national publications such as The National Law Journal, Lawyers Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. Dr. Gilleland has over 32 years of dedicated jury consulting research experience and has conducted mock jury work on over 1,300 cases, as well as strategic hourly consulting on hundreds of others.