Litigation Support & Damages Analyses

Asking for and discovering the right documents and information is crucial to achieving a successful outcome in commercial disputes. Failing to pursue high potential information sources, discover appropriate document categories, or cover key damages issues in fact and expert witness depositions, can significantly weaken the ability to pursue or defend the economic damages and causation aspects of a case.

Our team can efficiently identify, process, and manage the information required to complete the factual foundation of a case. Our professionals have a deep knowledge of customary business records and accounting systems, reports, and documents. We provide valuable insight regarding the preliminary assessment of a case. We can pursue or anticipate a plaintiff’s damages claims and provide comprehensive, better targeted financial discovery requests. Supported by skillful project management, we have tremendous expertise in accumulating, managing, and analyzing volumes of electronic data. We can suggest what to ask for in order to elicit the most telling information during discovery. We can analyze the responses for ambiguities, errors, or contradictions. Our forensic and investigative skills can help reconstruct documentation that has been compromised or is missing.

Our team has extensive experience developing and understanding complex financial models and damage computations. Each dispute presents several potential theories of damage. Utilizing our experience, industry trends, business forecasts, and the available evidence, we identify the most appropriate strategies that can be presented in simple, concise and understandable terms, while still demonstrating in-depth knowledge of the detail of transactions and issues.

We utilize analytical and computer modeling techniques to quantify, describe, and support a claim or defense. We utilize the financial data gathered during the discovery phase to identify trends, model potential outcomes, evaluate products or business segments, study markets, perform valuations, analyze and allocate costs, understand transactions, and assess risk.

Our professionals are skilled at presenting complex matters in clear and understandable language. We are trained to communicate effectively before judge and jury in a courtroom setting or before a panel of arbitrators.

Our professionals have provided expert testimony throughout the country in economic damages analysis, accounting, finance, business valuation, fraud investigation and automotive industry matters in large and complex commercial disputes.

In our experience, the vast majority of commercial disputes are resolved prior to completion of a trial or arbitration proceeding. In most cases a rational evaluation of damages issues by each party can lead to resolution. We regularly work with our clients to evaluate scenarios for the possible outcomes of litigation and facilitate this process by developing settlement models, performing sensitivity analyses, and, when requested, meeting with other professionals engaged by opposing parties or participating in settlement discussions. Members of our firm regularly serve as private party arbitrators and participate in the Commercial Arbitration Panel of the American Arbitration Association.