Litigation Support
Are you seeking support, direction, and knowledgeable advice on complex financial issues that your legal team needs the answers to immediately?
Our Litigation Support group can provide a wide range of services related to litigation matters in today's society where attorneys increasingly are presented with cases involving complex financial and accounting issues. Our Litigation Support group understands the subtleties of financial issues, similar to an attorney who understands nuances in the law. Our high standards of professionalism, experience and personalized service, result in independent and objective expert witness testimony.
Our Litigation Support services include:
- Divorce - We value businesses in connection with divorce proceedings, and marital assets and liabilities, and we determine the tax impacts of property division, alimony, child support, etc., and prepare pre-trial statements.
- Personal injury - Calculations of lost earnings.
- Business and asset valuations - The value of a closely held business needs to be ascertained in many matters including: estate, gift or income tax litigation; contracts, acquisitions and divestitures; and estate planning.
- Business interruption claims - We determine the period over which damage is suffered and prepare an analysis of costs to be utilized in calculating the loss. We calculate lost profits pro formas and projections. We provide an evaluation of insurance coverage to determine the amount of the recoverable loss. We prepare business valuations of the "before" and "after" the casualty and analysis of opposing experts' reports and testimony.
- Shareholder/Partner Disputes - Shareholders or partners often have disputes that involve various financial and economic items. These can include everything from determining an amount a departing shareholder or partner is owed for their interest pursuant to an agreement, to determining amounts that were siphoned off from healthy companies to fund the losers.
- Lost profit claims - Evaluation of lost sales, production costs, profits and losses, cash flows, opportunity costs, rate of return and range of damages.
- Damage determination - Almost all commercial litigation involves a computation of damages. Examples of our services include: determining what a sales person is owed in commissions, based upon sales and his or her commission rate; determining lost profits as a result of a negligent action or other tort; and calculating damages for breach of fiduciary responsibility by investment advisors all are opportunities to use the expertise of our team.
- Expert witness testimony - We can provide expert witness testimony at a deposition and trial and we typically assist in the preparation and negotiation of issues we have analyzed.
Please contact Bill Hubly for further details or to request additional information about our Litigation practice.