Our Key Personnel
Legal Cost Control's Senior Staff is the most experienced in
cost management in the nation. The company's core attorneys,
legal assistants, analysts and information technology development
team all have over 10 years of experience in the field.
JOHN J. MARQUESS, ESQUIRE
Mr. Marquess is the President of LCC. He has been an attorney since 1977, is a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bar and is an experienced trial attorney. Since 2005 he has been a member of the Open Legal Standards Initiative, a panel comprised of leaders in the legal community. The panel is focused on developing uniform legal business processes to assist corporate and government law departments in measuring cost effectiveness, staff productivity and process efficiency.
Mr. Marquess has reviewed, audited, consulted, negotiated and acted as the Fee Expert in some of the largest litigations in history, including:
- Enron-$600 Million in legal and accounting fees
- WorldCom-$350 Million in legal and accounting fees
- Adelphia-$200 Million in legal and accounting fees
- Microsoft Antitrust Litigation - $60 Million in legal fees
- Dow Corning Breast Implant Litigation - $250 Million in legal fees
- Motorola Ground Water Contamination Litigation - $30 Million in fees
- Heller Financial Services Legal Electronic Billing Project - $150 Million in legal fees
- Lone Star Industries Litigation - $30 Million in legal fees
- UV Industries Litigation - $50 Million in legal fees
- UTC Industries Litigation - $50 Million in legal fees
- RTC Litigation - $500 Million in legal fees
- OCF/C&F Asbestos Litigation - $650 Million in legal fees
- Center for Claims Resolution Asbestos Litigation - $100 Million in fees
Mr. Marquess has “Written the Book” on Guidelines and Standards for many of the nation’s largest corporations, insurance companies and government agencies, including Heller Financial Services, Procter & Gamble, State Farm Insurance, Motorola, Owens Corning Fiberglas, the Resolution Trust Corporation, the United States Justice Department and the City of Chicago. Mr. Marquess is also the most quoted expert on legal cost control issues and billing ethics issues. See, e.g., THE HONEST HOUR, Professor William G. Ross, Carolina Academic Press, 1996.
Mr. Marquess has also served as Guest Lecturer and Instructor to the following entities:
- American Bar Association
- Risk Insurance Managers Society (RIMS)
- Large Law Department Council (LL.D.)
- American Insurance Association (AIA)
- Institute of London Underwriters
- National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC)
- Executive Enterprises, Inc.
- International Quality & Productivity Center
- San Francisco Claim Council
- Pennsylvania Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (PAMIC)
- Oregon State Bar
- Philadelphia Bench-Bar
- "Ethics of Billing," PA Bar MCLE
- Association of American Law Schools (A.A.L.S.)
- New Jersey Bankers Association
- Association of Georgia Defense Counsel
- American Forest and Paper Association
Mr. Marquess has been the leading commentator on cost control issues to the print media and has been featured in the following publications:
- ABA Journal
- The Wall Street Journal
- The New York Times
- The Washington Post
- Forbes Magazine
- Fortune Magazine
- Inc. Magazine
- "Claims" Magazine
- Business Insurance Magazine
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Risk Management Magazine
- The National Law Journal
Mr. Marquess has also been featured as the foremost analyst in the cost industry through his appearances on the following:
- Guest Analyst: C-NBC TV, "Money Talk"
- Guest Analyst: CBS News Radio, "In the Marketplace"
- Guest Analyst: Business Radio Network, "Business Talk"
- "60 Minutes with Mike Wallace"
RICHARD G. HESS, ESQUIRE
Mr. Hess is an experienced attorney who has been a consultant
in the legal cost containment arena for 15 years, and has reviewed
over $10 Billion in professional billings. Mr. Hess has served
as a legal fee auditor and consultant for diverse, national
and international clientele, including corporations, bankruptcy
courts, government, risk management and insurance entities.
Mr. Hess has managed various large client accounts, and has
been retained as a legal fee expert regarding legal billing
practices. Mr. Hess has been a key manager in the Adelphia case.
DENNIS J. KELLY, CPA, MBA
Mr. Kelly has over 30 years accounting experience, with government and
private experience in bankruptcy practice and auditing.
Mr. Kelly owns diverse experience in accounting, control evaluation, systems
development, project management and consulting in a broad spectrum of
industries, including financial services, manufacturing, utilities and
health care. He has held positions as manager for a "Big Four" public
accounting and consulting firm and as general auditor for a regional bank.
CYNTHIA MORRIS, ESQUIRE
Ms. Morris has been a member of the California State Bar since
1986. She began her legal career in private practice in San
Diego, handling both state and federal court litigation with
an emphasis on legal and medical malpractice. Ms. Morris also
worked in a Corporate Legal Department before pursuing a career
in legal cost management in 1991. Her areas of expertise include
training and assisting clients in reducing legal costs, conducting
on-site audits of law firms and training seminars for clients,
negotiating settlements, and testifying on behalf of clients
in federal court and in state court arbitrations.
ROSEMARY T. PATRICELLI, ESQUIRE
Ms. Patricelli is an attorney licensed since 1986 in both Pennsylvania
and New Jersey. Her original legal practice focused on representing
the interests of health care providers, medical device manufacturers
and pharmaceutical companies. Since 1989, Ms. Patricelli developed
a specialty in legal services management, assisting clients
in establishing a reliable framework for the integration of
internal and outsourced legal services. She also created information
management and legal auditing programs and provided related
consultations to both foreign and domestic corporations.
Ms. Patricelli has testified as an expert witness, published
numerous articles and has been a frequent guest lecturer on
the management of outsourcing services, performance measurement
and quality control.
MARY MCGINNIS, JD, MBA
Ms. McGinnis is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania. Her business experience includes accounting, and computer system development and design.
PATRICK J. WOODS
Mr. Woods served as fee auditor in a number of large cases. He has been a key manager in the Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, NTL and AmeriSeve cases, as well as the Microsoft Anti-Trust Litigation. As Corporate Vice President, Mr. Woods is responsible for all Operations and Quality Control. Prior to entering the legal cost management field in 1989, Mr. Woods served for 15 years as Special Statistical Studies Manager for the Social Security Administration.
SKYLER ALTLAND
Mr. Altland is an expert in all aspects of legal cost control
and management. His fourteen years of experience include; reviewing
and auditing legal fees totaling over $1 billion. His expertise
also includes: fee dispute resolution, legal billing guideline
development, cost control system design and implementation,
staff training and law firm negotiations. Mr. Altland has performed
these services for foreign and domestic insurance carriers,
courts, state and federal agencies and major corporations. Mr.
Altland's previous business experience provides the skills necessary
to analyze complex transactional and business matters.
KEITH LIMPER
A former U.S. Marine, Mr. Limper has thirteen years experience
in legal cost containment systems, involving both software and
network design with a focus on automation.
JANE WILT
Ms Wilt’s has extensive legal fee auditing experience, and has developed expertise in sampling methodologies for disbursement analysis and documentation.
SCOTT BATSON
Mr. Batson has Big Six consulting experience. His professional expertise is in the areas of web-based time and expense systems, data warehousing and system integration. He is an integral part of the LCC Team in the Enron and Adelphia bankruptcies.
SUSAN TREVEJO
Ms. Trevejo has over 25 years experience as an administrator and manager at a large law firm, and has been in the legal cost containment industry since the late 1980’s. She has played a significant role in the Enron, Adelphia, AmeriServe and NTL Bankruptcies.
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