Aginsky Forensic Document Dating Laboratory provides consultation, examination and expert testimony on civil and criminal cases involving altered (or counterfeit) documents, medical records, checks, Wills, deeds, legal contracts, insurance records, computer-printed and photocopied documents, as well as documents involved in copyright and patent infringement cases.
Valery N. Aginsky, Ph.D. is a forensic chemist of 29 years of experience specializing in the field of ink analysis (ink comparison, ink dating) and document dating.
He has conducted seminars on ink analysis and dating in Canada, Israel, Turkey, and Russia. He testified regarding ink analysis and ink and document dating in criminal and civil matters and in arbitrations in the United States, Canada, Russia, Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, Israel, and Gibraltar.
He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed articles on ink analysis and dating, including chapters in three books and two encyclopedias.
Dr. Aginsky uses reliable ink dating methods (proven through outside proficiency testing) developed as a result of many years of research of the methodology developed and published by Dr. Antonio Cantu. These methods measure certain parameters of ink that decrease as ink ages on paper. Other ink entries are not necessary for comparison.
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