Howard Cannon
Restaurant and bar owners face serious legal exposure when overserved patrons cause harm — to themselves or others. This is where a dram shop expert witness becomes essential. Dram shop laws hold establishments liable for continuing to serve visibly intoxicated guests who go on to cause an accident, assault, or worse.
Howard Cannon has spent decades helping attorneys on both sides of dram shop and alcohol liability cases understand what “reasonable service practices” actually look like in a working restaurant or bar. His testimony draws on real operational standards — staff training, cutoff procedures, and manager oversight — rather than theory alone.
Whether you’re building a plaintiff’s case around an over-service incident or defending an establishment that followed proper protocol, a qualified dram shop expert witness can be the difference between a case that holds up and one that falls apart under cross-examination. Courts and juries often assume that overserving a visibly intoxicated guest is simple common sense, but dram shop litigation rarely comes down to something that clear-cut. A dram shop expert witness can walk through exactly what happened at the point of service — how staff are trained to recognize intoxication, what documentation typically exists for cutting off a guest, and whether industry-standard procedures were followed or ignored. That level of operational detail is often what separates a defensible case from a losing one, for either side.
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