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We are a professional arboricultural consulting firm providing analysis, testimony, and litigation support experience in evaluating damages and developing cost appraisals. Clients include attorneys, corporations, government agencies, neighborhood councils, property managers, landscape architects, and professions within the construction industries. We have successfully completed over 1200 cases throughout California with experience ranging from wild land fire expert witness testimony to specialized landscape damage loss analysis, and tree root & infrastructure management conflicts.

We have extensive expert witness experience assessing fire damage and claims associated with over 200 cases in multiple fires throughout California. The assignments required extensive damage documentation, repair and mitigation cost analysis, and direct participation in mediations, settlement conferences, and court cases.

Greg Monfette, owner of Tree Case Management, has served as an expert witness performing forensic work for cases up to $20,000,000. He has testified at bench and jury trials, in over 80 depositions, and 40 mediations and arbitrations.

TREE CASE MANAGEMENT

Tree Case Management (TCM) is dedicated to the enhancement of your community and the protection of the environment as the preeminent authority on legal matters associated with trees, root and infrastructure damage, tree preservation and retention, and tree and plant health, while ensuring through our expertise and objectivity the safety, preservation, functionality and beauty of your natural surroundings.

Trees in our developed environment present a challenge, requiring careful planning and vigilant maintenance. The shared public trust of governments, businesses and homeowners is to ensure that tree plantings grow, thrive and remain safe. When a problem occurs—if a tree causes damage or becomes a public safety hazard—a source for advice and mediation is often needed. This is the role of TCM to bring a comprehensive, objective viewpoint to the diagnosis, appraisal and evaluation of arboricultural issues.

As Board Certified Master Arborist / Registered Consulting Arborist we are called upon to advise in the most challenging situations that necessitate experience in the science and practice of arboriculture, as well as specific expertise in the practical, ethical and objective role of the consultant.

We strive to be the arboricultural experts of choice to assist law firms, insurance companies, utility companies, developers, municipalities, architects, landscape planners, homeowners, organization’s coping with disaster mitigation, and others requiring authoritative knowledge and perspective on trees and plant life. In addition to court case work, we specialize in root analysis, structural stability and the overall evaluation of the root collar area in determining various needs, or addressing various concerns. We perform our excavation with the use of an Air-Spade which uses a patented supersonic nozzle that focuses the air “like a laser beam” to break up the soil. The soil can then be easily removed from the excavation site without damaging the roots. Air exiting the nozzle is at twice the speed of sound (approximately 1300 mph) which allows for best digging conditions with the effort of tree preservation in mind, even in the hardest soils. And the best of all is that it is not harmful to the roots or the adjacent infrastructure.