Lawrence R. Porte is a nationally and internationally recognized investigative analysis and trial assistance expert with more than 40 years of experience in federal law enforcement, complex criminal investigations, protective intelligence, targeted violence assessment, and aviation security. His distinguished career includes senior leadership with the U.S. Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security/TSA, service on the White House Presidential Protective Division and the first White House Counter Assault Team, and oversight of major investigative operations across a 14-state region encompassing approximately 110 federally protected airports.

Today, Mr. Porte applies this extraordinary investigative background to complex litigation, criminal appeals, post-conviction matters, investigative case review, and trial assistance, helping attorneys evaluate investigative integrity, witness statements, evidentiary documentation, law-enforcement procedures, investigative chronologies, and potential gaps or inconsistencies in civil and criminal investigations. His experience also encompasses threat assessment and targeted-violence analysis, supported by his participation in landmark U.S. Secret Service research involving assassins, near-attackers, school shooters, and targeted violence. His international notoriety provides Am 100 Law Firms with a uniquely experienced and independent perspective when evaluating extremely complex or high-stakes matters.

That being said his firm, Riley, Welch, LaPorte & Associates, is a leading global forensic science and investigative analysis firm having conducted high profile multi-billion dollar cases in the United Kingdom, France, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Canada, Netherlands, Hungary, Israel, Switzerland, and Denmark. We are considered a top-tier firm having conducted work for foreign governments, and are recognized globally by the most prominent law firms in the world for providing the highest level of forensic examination and review services to both governmental and private entities. They take cases in all 50 states with concentrated casework in New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami, Las Vegas, Houston, Dallas, and are respected by top Am 100 legal firms throughout the United States and internationally.

Mr. Porte's firm has testified as expert witnesses in numerous notable international ICSID cases (ICSID Case No ARB/06/8, ICSID Case No ARB/14/22, PCA Arbitration Case No 2020-21_The Hague). Their testimony has been presented in courts worldwide handling a wide variety of legal matters including criminal law and civil litigation. Their experience includes testifying before government officials, US Federal, Circuit, and District courts, international tribunals, arbitrations, and mediations.