Talent Agent for Real Estate Expert Witnesses – A lawyer with over thirty years of real estate experience as CEO of Lightner Property Group, Lightner is a Director of Opine Experts, an agency representing forensic consultants and expert witnesses credentialed in various aspects of the wide-ranging real estate sector. Providing business consultants as well, Opine Experts supports litigators, asset managers and investors with real estate experts who are the very best at what they do.Forensic Expert Witness – In addition to representing other real estate experts, Mr. Lightner offers his personal expertise regarding real estate syndication issues. He deconstructs broken investment partnerships to determine whether promoters took unfair advantage of investors. His experience is that of a veteran: Lightner saved himself and a group of other investors from a thieving General Partner. Enabled by his operating experience, he navigated through a financial smoke screen to uncover a gambit that jeopardized the investment property. Coupling his real estate know-how with communication skills learned years before as a University Development Officer, he organized the troubled group. Empowered by experience as a business lawyer, he quickly invoked legal remedies, marshaled assets, took control over the situation and stopped a foreclosure action. Voted-in as the substitute General Partner, he solved the problem and the property thrived. Mr. Lightner is an insightful analyst and strategist.Real Estate Investment & Development – As CEO of Lightner Property Group, he is a renovator and operator of classic San Francisco apartment and office buildings; and an urban infill real estate developer who has re-claimed polluted wrecking yards, obsolete industrial buildings and other ramshackle parcels in the Bay Area. Lightner is known as a successful communicator, whether on paper or in front of challenging skeptics. He capitalizes projects with private equity and conventional financing.Specialties: Infill development, office and apartment building renovation, real estate portfolio management, governmental and community relations, development entitlements, capital formation, investment partnership forensic analysis