Services

Services

Litigation Support

At some point, most indi­vid­u­als and busi­nesses will find them­selves embroiled in highly com­plex lit­i­ga­tion requir­ing finan­cial analy­sis. Our expe­ri­ence and well estab­lished rep­u­ta­tion for highly com­pe­tent, objec­tive and author­i­ta­tive finan­cial exper­tise enables us to assist you and your attor­ney as you face a legal issue. The firm's lit­i­ga­tion team is widely regarded as hav­ing the exper­tise needed to express an opin­ion about the valid­ity of evi­dence in a case and con­vey that opin­ion in a way that can be under­stood and believed. Our team has earned respect from law firms that under­stand a qual­i­fied finan­cial ser­vices firm is a crit­i­cal com­po­nent of a suc­cess­ful lit­i­ga­tion strat­egy. Read more about our begin­ning in the lit­i­ga­tion arena.

• Expert Con­sul­tant and Expert Witness

  	Def­i­n­i­tion: As a con­sul­tant, the CPA is engaged by an attor­ney to develop infor­ma­tion that will be used by the attor­ney in a vari­ety of ways. In these engage­ments, the CPA is usu­ally not expected to tes­tify, and the doc­u­ments cre­ated may be pro­tected by attorney-client priv­i­lege. This means that they may not have to be made avail­able to the oppos­ing side. Expert Wit­ness – When a CPA is engaged as an expert wit­ness, the CPA will often have to pro­vide depo­si­tion and court­room tes­ti­mony, and all of the doc­u­ments cre­ated by the CPA, includ­ing reports relat­ing to the case, are sub­ject to “dis­cov­ery” by the other side.

• Eco­nomic Dam­age Analysis

  	Def­i­n­i­tion: Loss of earn­ings, Med­ical Expenses, Bur­ial Costs, Loss of use of prop­erty, Costs of repair­ing or replac­ing prop­erty, Costs of obtain­ing replace­ment per­sonal house­hold services.

• Foren­sic Accounting

  	Def­i­n­i­tion: Foren­sic account­ing cen­ters around engage­ments relat­ing to crim­i­nal mat­ters that typ­i­cally arise in the after­math of fraud. They fre­quently involve the assess­ment of account­ing sys­tems and accounts pre­sen­ta­tion, in essence assess­ing if the num­bers reflect reality.

• Busi­ness Valuations

  	Def­i­n­i­tion: A process and a set of pro­ce­dures used to deter­mine the eco­nomic value of an owner’s inter­est in a busi­ness. Busi­ness val­u­a­tion is often used to esti­mate the sell­ing price of a busi­ness, resolve dis­putes related to estate and gift tax­a­tion, divorce lit­i­ga­tion, allo­cate busi­ness pur­chase price among the busi­ness assets, and many other busi­ness and legal disputes.

• Mar­i­tal Prop­erty Consulting
• Share­holder Disputes
• Busi­ness Interruption

  	Def­i­n­i­tion: Cost and lost profit dam­age analy­sis aris­ing from an inter­rup­tion of business.

• Set­tle­ment Negotiations

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