EXPERT
TESTIMONY & LITIGATION SUPPORT
Valuations
- Business Valuations
- Going Concern Analysis
- Lost Profits and Damages
- Lost Earnings
- Tangible/Intangible Assets
- Executive Compensation
- Real Estate Valuations
- Bankruptcy
Damages and Liability Calculations
- Lost profits and lost earnings
- Lost business opportunity, condemnation proceedings
- Buy-sell agreements
- Future value, earning potential, profitability estimates
- Specific transactions and individual contracts
- Intangibles for tax purposes, including depreciation versus
real economic life, brand name, customer lists goodwill
- Appropriate interest rates, inflation, and risk factors in
present value calculations
- Alternative approaches to valuations from the perspectives
of economics, finance and accounting
- Sampling approach to economically estimate damages or liability
Antitrust
- Mergers and acquisitions: Herfindahl calculations, market
share analysis
- Relevant geographic and product market
- Restraints of trade. Monopolization. Unfair competition
- Dynamics of noncompetitive practices
- Linkage between profit margins, degree of industry concentration,
and economies of scale
- Price fixing
- Predatory pricing
- Effective firm conduct on market performance
Intellectual Property
- Valuations of intellectual property
- Valuations of intangible assests
- Income and royalty streams
- Damages and lost profits from misuse, infringement, misappropriation
- Market-related issues (eg. definition of market)
- Surveys to determine consumer confusion
- Compliance analysis (are royalties being paid properly)
International Trade
- Foreign Trade Law
- Effects of quotas, tariffs, orderly market arrangements
and of imports on domestic markets
- Unfair trade allegations
- Duty petitions and analysis of dumping charges
- International antitrust issues
Wrongful Discharge
- Value of lost earnings and benefits
- Economic and statistical analysis of relevant circumstances
Personal Injury
- Value lost earnings and benefits
Discrimination - Age, Sex, Race
- Determine the size of the discrimination loss and project
information past and future
- Title VII topics
- Class actions
- Assess jury system representativeness
- Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, Department
of Labor
- Statistical analysis and design of studies regarding earnings
and admissions data and hiring and promotion practices
- Assessment and characterization of the strengths of statistical
evidence in discrimination cases
- Comparable worth and intentional wage discrimination
Environmental Economics
Breach of Contract and Breach of Implied Covenant of
Good Faith and Fair Dealing
- Value lost profits and lost business opportunity (including
negligent interference)
Corporate Governance
- SEC disclosures
- FASB standards
- Standard practices, business judgment
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Financial and economic implications
- Antitrust and market share analysis
Covenant of Merchantability and Fitness for Given Use
Securities Fraud and Rule 10B-5 and Common Law Fraud
- Prudent man rule and suitability
- Proxy, tender, and merger
- Economic valuations and damage analysis
- Accounting practices and proper disclosure
- Allocation of value among classes of assets or securities
Alter Ego
- Evaluations by Associated Vendors and similar criteria
- Applications for defrauded creditors, punitive damages, jurisdictional
presence
Bankruptcy
- Viability of reorganizational plans
Computer Services
- Software Piracy
- Negligence or Misrepresentation in system development or acquisition
- Customized data bases
Land Use and General Plan Litigation
- General Plan analysis under California law
- Federal law and precedent affecting local land use planning
- Application of appropriate urban design standards
- Political impact analysis
- Background data and analysis for industrial and commercial
studies
- Adequacy of local procedures and criteria in developing and
amending General Plans
- The proper imposition of taxes, fees or assessments
Real Estate
- Value properties, leases (computerized NPV and ROI analyses)
- Models: economics, demographics, planning
- Feasibility studies
- Financial structuring of projects
- Highest and best use analysis
Transfer Pricing
- Comprehensive strategic approach to multinational company
pricing and tax planning
- Data collection and analysis to show the best pricing method
- Preparation for and negotiation of advance pricing agreements
with the IRS
- Response to IRS and foreign tax authority audits of intercompany
transactions
- Avoiding and defending against allegations of dumping
- Litigation support
- Expert testimony
Tax Issues
- Estimating liability
- Valuing closely held corporations
- Valuing intangibles
Trial Strategy and Jury Research
- Effective voir dire and strategy for presentation of case
- Witness preparation
- Construct mock juries with attitudinal characteristics equivalent
to juror pool for pretrying a case
- Profile of ideal juror characteristics and rating system for
selecting juror
- Attitudinal surveys of juror pool
- Ask for our prospectus on Cooperative Juror Selection:
A Scientific Approach to Increasing Attorney's Success Rates
in Selecting Jurors
Crisis Management
- Crisis identification and communications
- Media relations
- Crisis intervention
- Damages analysis and litigation support
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