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Legal Support Services & Expert Witness Testimony
Objective: Retaining an expert witness in regulatory proceedings, arbitration, mediation, or trial issues - to provide opinions concerning the incidents which are at issue.
Solution: Mr. Morrow is a professional who brings over 40 years of expertise and consulting and practice in the areas of Estate planning, Financial Planning, Financial Software Development, Life & Health Insurance, and Practice Management.
Qualifications: Mr. Morrow has been actively involved in the financial services and life insurance industry since March 1963. During this time he served as a financial analyst for Dun & Bradstreet, an insurance agent, district manager, agency training director, estate planner, financial planner, Registered Investment Advisor, financial planning trainer and software developer and association executive.
Designations: He holds the following professional designations:
Presentations: Mr. Morrow has addressed the following U.S. based professional associations on the topics of life insurance, financial planning, software applications and practice management at their national (and often regional and local) meetings:
Association Responsibilities. He currently hold the following professional positions:
Papers and Publications. He has authored three books on financial topics: How to Computerize your Financial Planning Practice published by the College for Financial Planning, The Complete Millennium Preparation Guide for Financial Advisors (jointly with Jeffrey Kelvin, J. D.) on how financial advisors could prepare for various Y2K risks, and Personal Coaching for Financial Advisors. 2003 CFP Board of Standard's author of the year award in the Professional/Trade Periodical Article Category for, A Trust is Not Enough, published in the October/November, 2002 edition of CCH's Journal of Estate Planning magazine. Co-Authored by Edwin P. Morrow, III, JD, RFC. He is a regular contributing author of a column that deal with software issues for financial advisors and life insurance agents, an Editor of Financial Services Advisor magazine, columnist for Financial Services Journal Online, Probe magazine and he is Editor-in-Chief of the IARFC Register monthly newsletter.
He has made numerous presentations to financial planning organizations, such as the Institute of Certified Financial Planners, the International Association for Financial Planning and the Financial Planning Association in other countries, such as Britain, Canada, Australia, China, Taiwan, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. He has published over 500 articles on practice management for financial planners, and prepared an administrative manual and software for the compliance by Registered Investment Advisors.
He is the founder (in 1969), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Financial Planning Consultants, Inc., a Middletown, Ohio based firm that is now engaged in the training and coaching of financial advisors. In the 1980s the firm was heavily involved in the delivery of personal financial planning services on a fee basis to corporate executives, and thereafter shifted its focus to training other firms and the development and support of financial planning software. As a Registered Investment Adviser (sic) they regularly worked with other professionals (attorneys, accountants, trust officers and stockbrokers) to implement clients’ financial plans. As the co-author of a Compliance Module for the financial Practice Builder Financial software, he is intimately familiar with the responsibilities and limitations placed on Registered Investment Advisers by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Prior Testimony: In the last five years Mr. Morrow has been called to witness in cases, and deposed as an expert is in lawsuits involving financial planning software, financial planning and insurance company, working with the following law firms: Thompson & Company, LPA, 2005 - Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust R. Thomas Wire, 2005 - Annuity Selling Practices Bryant & Sanzone, 2002 - Benefit Analysis, referral letter Dykema Gossett, LLC, 2003 - Financial Consultant actions Fulbright & Jaworski, 2003 – Software distribution, usage and copyright Material Reviewed: With regard to the above cases, some involving claims in excess of $250,000,000, Mr. Morrow has reviewed the complaint, amendments, tax returns, depositions of witnesses and principals, computer source code, computer files, training materials, marketing materials as well as computer usage and Personal Financial Planning Services Contracts.
Retainer: Following a verbal discussion with Counsel of the case history, client’s circumstances, the nature of the issues involved and the type of reports and testimony required, the scope of the services can be estimated, and an engagement arranged.
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