Business Damages Expert Witness Listings

Accounting, Business Valuation - Divorce, Financial, Business Damages, Forensic CPA, Earning Capacity

Areas of Expertise:  Accounting: personal and corporate  Valuation: personal and corporate  Business Interruption/lost earnings/lost profit  Analysis: earnings, lost profit, and businesses  Forensic Accounting  Financial Statements  Mergers & Acquisitions  Appraisals: business and personal net worth  Personal and Corporate Tax  Matrimonial Business Valuation Bryan Parker CPA is an expert in accounting with over 35 years in corporate and private practice. His specialty is Forensics Accounting and is certified as a Forensic CPA (FCPA). He has assisted clients with consultation, mediation, or testimony in divorce cases concerning but not limited to business or retirement valuation and pre-nuptial agreements. He has experience in all aspects of accounting and finance pertaining to Federal and state income taxes. He is also certified as a Financial Planner (CFP, PFS, and ChFC) and in this capacity, he advises clients regarding their personal and business finances. During his ...

Fraud, Accounting - Financial, Insolvency, Forensic Accounting, Bankruptcy, Business Damages, Economics, Mining, Business Operations, Accounting investigations, Forensic investigations, Litigation support, Litigation services

Chris Linscott is the Director of Keegan Linscott & Associates consulting practice with more than thirty-five years of experience. His background includes eight years with KPMG Peat Marwick in the New York City and Boston offices, two years with Coopers & Lybrand in Tucson, two years as a CFO in industry and twenty-six years with Keegan Linscott & Associates. He is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor. Chris has served as an expert witness and consultant to attorneys involved in litigation throughout the country. He has also served as a Financial Advisor to Debtors and Creditor Committees in Chapter 11, served as a Chapter 11 Trustee, court appointed Receiver, Financial Fiduciary, Special Master and Examiner in various court cases. Chris is adept at analyzing allegations of fraud in civil, criminal, and bankruptcy matters and working with counsel to understand the financial aspects of litigation. He has testified ...

Insurance, Business Damages - Claims, underwriting, bad faith, agent/broker duties, life, health, disability, property/casualty, reinsurance, surety

Banking, financial services, insurance consulting group (est. 1973). Experts include insurance managers, underwriters, brokers / agents, claims adjusters, accountants, actuaries, economists, statisticians, appraisers. Personal & Commercial lines, Professional & Directors Liability, Error & Omissions, Fidelity Bonds, Title insurance, Credit enhancement / mortgages; Adjusting, Policy interpretation; Risk management, Self-insured, TPA functions; Damages, Economic / Statistical analysis, Valuations, Forensic accounting.

Business Damages, Intellectual Property - Business Damage, Economic Damage, Accounting, Intellectual Property, DMCA, Patent, Copyright, Trademark, Royalty Audit, Fraud, False Advertising, Valuation, Breach of Contract, Wrongful Termination, Employment Law, Brands, Complex Business Litigation, Personal Injury, Lost Profits, Unjust Enrichment

LEADING ECONOMIC DAMAGES, IP, ROYALTY AUDIT, BRACH OF CONTRACT EXPERT Mr. Blum is a leading award winning IP, complex litigation, general damages, breach of contract, & royalty agreement expert. His 30+ years include 10 Fortune 50 corporate and five as a KPMG Partner. He was the Chief Audit Officer of Beats (now Apple). Author of two books on contract financial language and royalty auditing (Oxford University Press & LexisNexis). His well written grounded reports are cited as best examples and respected by judges. Economic Damages Blum is an economic damages expert on more than 100 federal and state cases. Cases include complex litigation, intellectual property (patents, copyrights, trademarks, false advertising, royalty auditor competence, fraud, DMCA), wrongful termination, construction defect, internet, marketing, unfair competition, oil & gas pipeline, class action, personal injury, breach of contract. Mr. Blum has deep knowledge of Georgia-Pacific factors for reasonable royal...

Economics, Business Damages - Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Employment, discrimination, Wages, Hours, Loss of Business Profits, Healthcare Loss Analysis, civil litigation, finance, business valuation, economics, statistics, valuation, accounting, and trademark/patent infringement damages.

As an experienced career Economist specializing in economic theory, analysis and policy, Long Beach, California-based Kaycea is an educator with extensive training in economics. With a Ph.D. degree in Economics and Management, Campbell is also an experienced researcher whose analyses have been published in authoritative journals. Kaycea has been teaching for over ten years and has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in economics. Kaycea is a tenured Associate Professor at Pierce College, teaching Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and related Economic Theory courses as required. She is also the Department Chair for a division housing the disciplines of Political Science, Economics, Administration of Justice, and Chicano Studies. She also teaches economic courses at other colleges within the Los Angeles Community College District (Mission College and West Los Angeles College). She also serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of La Verne...

Economics, Business Damages - Damages, Present Value Loss, Lost Profits, Lost Earnings, Lost Income, Lost Wages, Pension Loss, Present Value Medical Care Costs, Lost Earning Capacity

I am well versed in the calculation of past and present value future economic damages for all matters such as employment litigation, business litigation, wrongful death, and personal injury, including the calculation of future medical care costs. I provide credible testimony and produce clear summary reports of relevant conclusions.

Securities & Investments, Business Damages - Damages, Fiduciary Duty, Fraud, Hedge Funds, Insider Trading, Mutual Fund, Stock Options, Pension Plan, Ponzi Scheme, Short Selling, Suitability, Business Valuation

Marty Dirks has more than 30 years of institutional investment experience with expertise in hedge fund management, valuation and analysis of securities, analysis of corporate accounting fraud, and other complex investment-related issues. As an analyst and hedge fund manager of short equity funds from 1989 through 2010, he has special expertise in the analysis of fraud and misrepresentation by publicly-traded companies. Mr. Dirks is a Senior Adjunct Professor of Finance at Golden Gate University (2006-present). He was the director of research at McCullough, a value equity manager, from 2010-2012. He was a board member for the San José pension plan from 2011-2019. From his roles as an Adjunct Professor and Investment Consultant he has proven his ability as a confident public speaker with the ability to convey technical concepts to diverse audiences. His corporate industry experience includes working at Cooper Industries (1987-1989), a Fortune 100 manufacturing company, and at Texas ...

Business Damages, Economics - intellectual property(patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, licensing, royalties), entertainment, music, business valuations, lost profits, statistics, lost earnings, product marketing,

A considerable part of Dr. Goedde’s practice involves intellectual property issues including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and unfair competition matters as well as business valuations. His background in engineering and economics combined with his work experience in profit planning, budgeting, product marketing and acquisitions analysis has enabled him to assist clients in a wide range of intellectual property litigation. Dr. Goedde can also draw upon his experience as a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. His testimony experience in patent infringement matters includes economic analysis of the Panduit factors, applying Georgia Pacific factors to evaluate reasonable royalty; and, developing RAND royalty rates considering such issues as scope of the royalty base, lump sum and running royalties, royalty stacking, license comparability, university licensing agreements, exclusive licensing, and apportionment of profits to non-infringing components. Dr. ...

Business Damages, Securities & Investments - Mergers, acquisitions, corporate finance, business interruption, stocks, bonds, capital, lost profits, business valuation, transactions, alter ego, corporate veil.

Business Damages, Investigation - forensic accounting, governance, ediscovery, computer forensics, trade secrets, class certification, bet the company, TCPA, FCPA, securities, employment,

Expert witness and forensic investigator, Steve R. Lee, has been a driving force in winning billions of dollars of settlements, recoveries and savings for his clients in bet-the-company litigation. Lee is recognized in global venues for his expertise in financial forensics, information and corporate governance, trade secrets, defeating class certification, and commercial damages. Lee is a guest commentator on national news addressing topics including Ponzi schemes, SEC investigations and global cyber security issues. As specialists in bet-the-company litigation, Mr. Lee and his firm served Morgan Stanley in one of the largest commercial antitrust damages lawsuits in US history. The matter settled favorably for Mr. Lee's clients in the amount of almost US $3 billion. Scores of insurance, transportation, high technology, logistics, healthcare, media and entertainment, retail, energy, utility, food and beverage, finance, government and private equity clients both domestically and inte...

Business Damages, Accounting - Forensic Accounting, Damages, Lost Profits, Lost Earnings, Lost Value of Businesses and Real Estate, Fraud. Extensive Expert Testimony in breach of contract, business interruption, dissolutions, intellectual property, construction, fraud, securities, personal injury, wrongful termination matters.

Barbara Luna is a Senior Partner in the accounting and litigation services firm of White, Zuckerman, Warsavsky, Luna & Hunt. She has served as a forensic accounting, damages and valuation expert witness for over forty years in business and personal injury litigation and bankruptcy matters. She analyzes financial, accounting, economic, business, real estate and valuation issues relating to liability and damages in litigation matters and reorganization of businesses. She has testified on numerous occasions in U.S. District Court, Superior Court, Bankruptcy Court, arbitrations and depositions.

Economics, Business Damages - Lost income, lost wages, employment discharge, personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice, business valuation, life care plan valuation, pension valuation, Subchapter S valuation, asbestos, self employed income

I have testified over 100 times for both plaintiffs and defendants regarding lost income in personal injury, and wrongful death cases from both wage earners and self employed persons. I have also testified in business interruption, partnership disputes, marital dissolutions, and other matters regarding business income. I hold the following credentials: Certified Earning Analyst from the American Rehabilitation Economics Association, and Certified Valuation Analyst from the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts. Please see my LinkedIn profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/georgemclaughlinmba for referrals from clients. Ray Coates of Low Ball and Lynch stated: "George is an excellent expert witness. He is well prepared, makes a nice impression in front of the jury, and presents technical information in an understandable manner."

Business Damages, Accounting - CPA expert witness, forensic accounting, damages, business valuation, lost profits, reasonable royalty, alter ego, intellectual property, wrongful termination, wrongful death, breach of contract, lender liability,banking, entertainment, insurance, manufacturing, retail, securities, wholesale.

Thomas Neches, managing partner of Thomas Neches & Company LLP, provides accounting, financial, business valuation and statistical analyses to assist attorneys involved in litigation. Mr. Neches has testified as an expert in state and federal courts in Arizona, California, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New York and Oregon. He is a Certified Public Accountant, Accredited in Business Valuation, a Certified Valuation Analyst, a Certified Fraud Examiner and is Certified in Financial Forensics. He received his BA in Mathematics and Literature from UC San Diego and his MS in Operations Research from UCLA. Mr. Neches has testified to juries on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants in antitrust, breach of contract, fraud, intellectual property, lender liability, personal injury and wrongful termination cases. Examples of the litigation issues he has addressed include lost profits, lost business value, determining a reasonable royalty and piercing the corporate veil. Representativ...

Business Valuation, Business Damages - Litigation accounting, Forensic accounting, Partnership disputes, Shareholder disputes, Lost profits

Provide litigation accounting consulting for the legal community in areas that require forensic accountant services or business valuation services. Purposes that arise out of business disruption issues such as partner disputes or partner leaving business. Shareholder dissenting lawsuits because of management issues. Shareholder valuation issues as the result of divorce. Shareholder disputes over values as the result of a shareholders death. Lost profits as the result of business interruption because of outside factors, such as unforeseen construction or embezzlement by an employee.

Business Damages, Business Valuation - Commercial Litigation Damages, Construction Contract Damages, Construction Cost Audits, Lost Profits, Business Valuation, Construction Defect Damages, Forensic Accounting, Business Damages, Lost Profits, Business Interruption, Insurance Claims Analysis, Surety Claims Analysis, Internal Audits, Fraud

Jack W. Harris is a forensic accounting expert with 40 years professional experience in the areas of commercial litigation damages, construction claims, construction damages quantification, construction cost audits, lost profits analyses, business valuation, business interruption, financial management, accounting, internal auditing, and fraud investigations. Mr. Harris has worked on numerous domestic and international projects. Mr. Harris serves as an independent expert and consultant, and has held various management auditing and controller positions with major accounting, construction, financial services, and diversified firms. Mr. Harris is admitted as a Neutral with the American Arbitration Association for construction matters. Mr. Harris’ industry focus includes but is not limited to construction, mining, energy, real estate and land development, insurance, surety, and related industries. Other industry expertise includes high technology, medical, and professional services. Mr. ...

Economics, Intellectual Property - Economic Damages, Business Damages, Life-care Plans, Wrongful-death, Wrongful Termination, Employment, Patents, Trademark, Copyright, Statistics, Jones Act, FELA, Intellectual Property, Commercial Damages

I have over 30 years experience preparing, researching and analyzing financial and economic data and providing economic damages calculations, consulting services and expert reports in support of litigation. Expert testimony provided in deposition, Federal and State courts, arbitration, and before the Special Master in Victims Compensation matters. Prepared quantitative and qualitative analyses, memos and expert reports on tort cases involving personal injury, care costs and life-care plans, wrongful-death, wrongful termination, Jones Act, FELA, intellectual property, and commercial damages. Developed financial models for firms in a variety of markets, including the telecommunications, retail, casino gambling, insurance, manufacturing, tire wholesaler, oil services, residential real estate, merchant service provider, fire suppression, financial services, courier services, trade schools and hotel industries. Vice-President of the National Association of Forensic Economics. Speaks at n...

Business Damages, Fraud - Healthcare Data Analytics,Health Analytics,Healthcare Disputes and Investigations,Damages Analysis,False Claims Act,Anti-Kickback Statute,Prescription Drug Pricing,Off-Label Marketing,Pharmacy Benefit Managers,PBM,Specialty Pharmacy,Compound Pharmacy,Mail-order Pharmacy,Medicare Part D,Life Sciences

Nicholas John is an associate director with BRG’s Health Analytics practice. He has over ten years of experience providing strategy, data analytics, and litigation support services to clients and their counsel in the healthcare industry. His expertise is in designing and executing sophisticated but efficient solutions that address complex financial and economic questions. He accomplishes this through the acquisition, integration, and analysis of electronic data from healthcare companies, Medicare and Medicaid, surveys, and other publicly available healthcare data. Mr. John has broad experience working with pharmaceutical sales, reimbursement, and transactional claims data to inform clients and their counsel of potential liability and exposure related to allegations of false advertising, consumer fraud, and other misrepresentations. He has worked with clients across the healthcare continuum, including pharmaceutical manufacturers, pharmacy benefit managers, pharmacies (including com...

Business Damages, Intellectual Property - Accounting, Valuation, Economics, Financial, Dispute Resolution, Damages, Breach, Patent, Trademark, Trade Secret, lost profits, reasonable royalties, unjust enrichment, Section 337 matters, ITC, International Trade Commission

Deepa Sundararaman focuses her practice in the areas of intellectual property and commercial litigation matters. She has significant experience performing complex financial and accounting analyses in quantification of damages. Her experience includes disputes brought to federal courts and matters brought before the US International Trade Commission (ITC); and covers a range of disputes involving breach of contract, intellectual property, including allegations of patent, trademark infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets. Ms. Sundararaman has evaluated and quantified damages involving lost profits, reasonable royalties, and unjust enrichment. At the ITC, she has analyzed economic and financial issues in Section 337 investigations related to public interest, domestic industry, commercial success, remedy, cease and desist, and calculation of the appropriate bond rate. Her experience spans industries including semiconductors, pharmaceutical products, medical devices, toys, de...

Economics, Business Damages - Economic Damages, Hedonic Damages, Credit Damages, Lost Wages, Lost Household Services, Commercial Litigation, Financial Analysis, Personal Injury, Employment Discrimination, Intellectual Property, Patent Damages,

Dr. Stan V. Smith is a University of Chicago educated economist. As president of Smith Economics Group, economic legal consultants for plaintiff and defense attorneys nationwide, he provides testimony and litigation support services in evaluating damages. He and his staff of economists have developed state-of-the-art econometric analysis.

Economics, Business Damages - Health Economics, Statistics, Business Valuation, Value of Life, Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Wrongful Termination, Punitive Damages

Dr. Christensen is an economic consultant and health economist with a PhD in economics from the University of Illinois. He is a private consultant in both health care and litigation as well as an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota teaching health economics and policy. In litigation, he specializes in personal injury, wrongful death, wrongful termination, and business loss cases. In health care, he consults with organizations on financial performance under various reimbursement models, demonstrating value of specific clinical approaches, and the economic impact of health systems on the local economy. Previously, he directed the Health Research and Policy team at the Center for Naval Analyses in Alexandria, VA, where he conducted and oversaw research for the Military Health System, Navy Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of Health and Human Services. His health economic research has covered cost, efficiency, medical homes, accountable care organiza...

Business Damages, Automotive - Product Warranty Valuation, Dealership Valuation, Dealership Practices, Class Action Settlement Valuation, Business Interruption, Mining Interest Valuation, Minority Interest, Fair Value, Ownership Disputes, Estate and Gift Valuation, Lost Profits, Business Succession Planning, Automotive

Kirk D. Kleckner, CPA, MBA, ABV, ASA, CFF is the Managing Principal of ValuationUSA, a boutique Valuation / Litigation Support firm. He is also the current President of Automotive Group Capital and Consulting, LLC - a firm specializing in the dealership industry. Mr. Kleckner is a CPA, MBA and is professionally accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). He is also a Senior Appraiser of the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) and Certified in Financial Forensics from the AICPA (CFF). Mr. Kleckner is a Qualified Expert Witness with experience in complex business litigation. Mr. Kleckner's experience includes seven years as Chief Financial Officer for a well respected top 50 dealership group. He spent nineteen years with an accounting firm as its Chief Operating Officer, Director of Business Valuation and Litigation Support Services and Shareholder. Mr. Kleckner's expertise leverages both his professional and hands...

Accounting, Business Damages - Forensic Accounting, Economic Damages, Business Disputes, Partner Disputes, Contract Breaches, Tortious Acts, Fiduciary Responsibility Breaches, Standards of Care, Business Valuations, Fraud, White Collar Crime, Divorce

With offices in Reno and Las Vegas, I render expert testimony and consulting services throughout the U.S., primarily in complex business litigation, criminal defense and divorce matters. The services that are performed in litigation matters involve forensic accounting issues; economic damage claims; financial fraud; partner/shareholder disputes; breaches of fiduciary duties; standards of care; personal injury/wrongful death; white collar crime; business valuations; and in family law matters the services involve valuation of businesses, property division, tracing, tax issues, and spousal support. I am a CPA, Accredited in Business Valuations (ABV), and a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA®), a Master Analyst in Financial Forensics® (MAFF®), a Certified Financial Forensic (CFF), a Certified Forensic Accountant® (CRFAC®), a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Accounting® (DABFA®), a Forensic Certified Public Accountant™ (FCPA™), a Chartered Global Management Accountant® (CGMA®)...

Appraisal & Valuation, Business Damages - wrongful death, permanent injury, divorce, 706 expert, hedonic damages, valuation, financial forensics

John has held positions as an auditor senior with PricewaterhouseCoopers, as an audit and tax manager at a local CPA firm in the southeast, as a CFO/Treasurer for a publicly traded real estate development company, and as a finance/operations controller for several medium-sized service and manufacturing companies. He recently oversaw the valuation, litigation support and mergers and acquisition side of a regional public accounting firm. Currently, he provides valuation, economic damages consulting and expert witness services through his company Valuation and Consulting, LLC. He also provides business consulting and tax consulting/preparation services. His experience as a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) and as a Master Analyst in Financial Forensics (MAFF) includes valuations of small and middle market companies for purposes of estate and gift planning, litigation support, acquisitions, divestitures, financial reporting, tax reporting, exit planning and shareholder divorce. He also...

Business Valuation, Business Damages - business interruption, lost profits, lost value shareholder oppression, shareholder dissention, appraisal rights, product liability, legal malpractice, accountant malpractice, financial analysis

Mr. Agogliati began his valuation career in 1998 as a consultant in the valuation group of a ‘Big-4’ accounting firm. Prior to joining Marshall & Stevens, Mr. Agogliati was a member of the business valuation and litigation group of a New York based regional accounting firm for over 13 years; he co-led the group for the last six years of his tenure. Mr. Agogliati is currently the National Practice leader for the Dispute Resolution & Litigation Support Practice at Marshall & Stevens.

Technology, Economics - Financial, advertising, business damages, business operations, business valuation, computers, dispute resolution, information technology, internet, management, marketing, accounting

Expert Witness Consulting Services, LLC (“EWCS”) has recently been established to provide a range of services to independent professionals and professional service firms engaged in expert witness and related activities. EWCS has incremental, litigation-experienced human resources and national recognition within the legal community to significantly enhance the positioning and “throw weight” of affiliated expert witness firms.

Economics, Business Damages - Economic Damages, Wrongful Death Damages, Personal Injury Damages, Lost Earnings, Business Interruption Losses, Patent Infringement Damages, Household Services Losses, Life Care Plan Damages, Disaster Impacts/Catastrophic Losses, Economic Feasibility Studies, Cost Benefit Analysis

Ian Miller is a principal economist who leads the litigation support practice at NF Economic Consulting, LLC. For litigation support engagements, Mr. Miller applies financial and economic analysis to evaluate claims for economic damages. He has experience measuring economic damages in personal injury and medical malpractice cases, wrongful death, employment discrimination, environmental litigation (NRDA), patent infringement, real property damages (stigma/diminution in real property value) and breach of contract suits. Working closely with attorneys and multi-disciplinary teams of expert consultants, he has testified as an expert witness, prepared expert testimony, and delivered timely concise reports. He has aided settlement negotiations, drafted deposition questions, interrogatories, and critiqued opposing economic experts’ testimony and reports. Mr. Miller holds the Master Analyst in Financial Forensics (MAFF) designation (Certificate # 323, specializing in business and intell...

Accounting, Business Damages - Litigation Support, Loss of Profits, Economic Damages, Expert Witness Testimony, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Business Interruption, Inventory & Contents Claims, Employee Dishonesty, Construction Contract Analysis, Financial Motive, Subrogation, Extra Expenses, Product Liability, Fraud

With over twenty years of public accounting experience, Mr. Clark specializes in forensic accounting services for the legal and insurance profession. He has been designated as an expert and testified in Federal and State courts on a variety of matters including commercial insurance claim evaluations, contract disputes, loss of profits, personal injury, wrongful death, professional liability, and white collar crime. Mr. Clark has also been appointed as an Appraiser on a variety of commercial property insurance disputes. Mr. Clark’s experience spans a broad range of industries, including manufacturing, energy, hospitals, retail, hotel and hospitality, construction, agriculture, transportation, colleges and universities, restaurants, stadiums and theatres. He evaluates damages related to loss of profits, economic damages, contract disputes, shareholder disputes, financial motive, business interruption claims, inventory and contents claims, extra expense claims, employee dishonest...

Banking, Business Damages - lender liability, foreclosure, banking standards, banking regulation, bankruptcy, receivership, fiduciary duty, fraud, insolvency, mergers and acquisition due diligence, quality of earnings, valuation and damages

Nancy D. Terrill is a former Banking Executive with over twenty-five years of progressive lending and management responsibility with a regional bank and a money center bank. Her Banking expertise was built in Commercial Lending. Ms. Terrill spent 15 of her 25 year banking career in the Special Assets Division working on resolution of the problem loan portfolio. During that time, she was involved in hundreds of litigation matters including foreclosure and other collection litigation, bank fraud matters and lender liability cases. She progressed to the level of National Manager of the Special Assets Division of KeyBank NA where she had management responsibility over 130 employees serving a loan portfolio of $3 billion at the peak. Since then she has worked for a major public accounting firm (transaction due diligence work) and Turnaround/Restructuring firms, providing consulting advice to underperforming companies. In addition, over the past 10 years since leaving banking, Ms. Te...

Accounting, Business Damages - Economic Damages, Commercial Damages, Business Interruption, Lost Earnings, Financial Elder Abuse, Fraud Investigations, Wrongful Death, Wrongful Termination

I have over 20 years of experience with forensic accounting, including personal injury, wrongful death, business interruption, and patent infringement cases. Clients have included civil plaintiff and defense attorneys, insurance companies, and criminal prosecution and defense attorneys. In addition to my training and substantial experience as a CPA, my background in communications allows me to effectively connect with clients, juries, and arbitrators, both in person and through my reports. I believe that clear, direct language is more understandable to the triers of fact -- and ultimately more convincing.

Business Damages, Economics - fraud, business valuation, business interruption, lost profits, product recall, personal injury, employment cases, discrimination, contract disputes, dispute resolution, economic damages, construction defects, insurance claims, class action, shareholder disputes, bankruptcy, commercial litigation.

Gary S. Barach, CPA, CFE, CFF, CVA, is the founder of Barach Consulting Group, LLC (f/k/a Barach & Company). The firm was established in 1976. He has been retained as a financial forensic and economic expert in over 3,800 cases. His experience in litigation includes business valuation; fraud investigation; bankruptcy; and determining economic damages arising from contract and shareholder disputes, recalled product, and construction defects. Mr. Barach is also a well established expert in economic damages arising from personal injury and discrimination litigation. Mr. Barach’s professional credentials include Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), and Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF). He has been qualified as an expert in federal, state, and local courts throughout the United States and has never been precluded from offering testimony as the result of a Daubert motion. Mr. Barach’s 40 years of experience include...

Insurance, Business Damages - Economic Damages, General Business Damages, Accounting, Agent/Broker, Employment, Insurance Damages Expert, Lost Profits, Reinsurance Damages, Underwriting, Claims, Force Placed, Managing General Agency MGA/TPA Examinations, PEOs, Agent Errors & Omissions E&O, Insurance, Commercial Disputes

Key Coleman is a damages expert, who works in a variety of industries. For more than 24 years, Key has focused his efforts on forensics, disputes, damages and expert testimony. Key's background is unusual in that he has a deep understanding of many of the functional areas that lead to disputes, including: sales, operations, accounting and finance. One of Key's specialties is the analysis of damages in insurance or reinsurance disputes. He is one of the few experts nationwide who hold both the CPA and the CPCU designations. Key serves clients nationwide from Greater Philadelphia, but spent the bulk of his career in Chicago where he held high level positions at Grant Thornton LLP and LECG/Smart in their disputes practice. Prior to that, he was a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where for more than 11 years he performed forensic dispute analysis, damages analysis and investigative work. Prior to his consulting career, Key worked more than eight years for an insurance carr...

Appraisal & Valuation, Business Damages - wrongful death, permanent injury, divorce, 706 expert, hedonic damages, valuation, financial forensics

John has held positions as an auditor senior with PricewaterhouseCoopers, as an audit and tax manager at a local CPA firm in the southeast, as a CFO/Treasurer for a publicly traded real estate development company, and as a finance/operations controller for several medium-sized service and manufacturing companies. He recently oversaw the valuation, litigation support and mergers and acquisition side of a regional public accounting firm. Currently, he provides valuation, economic damages consulting and expert witness services through his company Valuation and Consulting, LLC. He also provides business consulting and tax consulting/preparation services. His experience as a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) and as a Master Analyst in Financial Forensics (MAFF) includes valuations of small and middle market companies for purposes of estate and gift planning, litigation support, acquisitions, divestitures, financial reporting, tax reporting, exit planning and shareholder divorce. He also...

Accounting, Business Damages - Forensic Accounting, Forensic Data Analytics, Financial Forensic Investigations, Construction Claims, Business Interruption Recovery, Discovery Consulting and eDiscovery, Lost Profits, Contract Disputes, Disbursement Risk Analysis, Accounts Payable Overpayment Recovery, Damages, Expert Testimony

EJ Janik has worked on 150 financial audits, over 715 business dispute and consulting matters, and has testified in over 83 total cases, including over 54 trial/hearing testimonies in eight states (10 federal, 21 state, 23 arbitration). Mr. Janik has over 38 years of public accounting and financial consulting experience, which includes working for Fortune 500 companies, public, and private entities in a variety of industries including, but not limited to: manufacturing, wholesale, food, engineering/construction, environmental, real estate, securities, oil and gas, communications, distribution, transportation, energy, paper, software, medical, estates, insurance, trucking, banking and public/private foundations, among others. Ryan Fraud and Forensic Recovery helps clients save money with services including: dispute analysis and expert testimony, financial forensic investigations, forensic data analytics, discovery consulting and eDiscovery services, special claims and recovery serv...

Economics, Business Damages - Economic Damages, Lost Profits, Earnings Loss, Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Business Interruption, Statistical Analysis, Contract Breach, Employment Discrimination

Dr. David Macpherson evaluates damages in personal injury, wrongful death, employment, and business loss cases, for plaintiffs and defendants. He has provided numerous independent reports and evaluation of opposing experts' reports since 2000, and testified often in Federal and State courts (FL, GA, KS, MI, MO, TX). Dr. Macpherson has conducted statistical analysis of discrimination claims. Clients have included the U.S. Attorney (Hartford and Oklahoma City). He is the E.M. Stevens Professor and Chair of Economics at Trinity University. Dr. Macpherson has served as vice president of the National Association of Forensic Economics and the vice president of the Southern Economic Association

Economics, Intellectual Property - Economic Damages, Business Damages, Life-care Plans, Wrongful-death, Wrongful Termination, Employment, Patents, Trademark, Copyright, Statistics, Jones Act, FELA, Intellectual Property, Commercial Damages

I have over 30 years experience preparing, researching and analyzing financial and economic data and providing economic damages calculations, consulting services and expert reports in support of litigation. Expert testimony provided in deposition, Federal and State courts, arbitration, and before the Special Master in Victims Compensation matters. Prepared quantitative and qualitative analyses, memos and expert reports on tort cases involving personal injury, care costs and life-care plans, wrongful-death, wrongful termination, Jones Act, FELA, intellectual property, and commercial damages. Developed financial models for firms in a variety of markets, including the telecommunications, retail, casino gambling, insurance, manufacturing, tire wholesaler, oil services, residential real estate, merchant service provider, fire suppression, financial services, courier services, trade schools and hotel industries. Vice-President of the National Association of Forensic Economics. Speaks at n...

Economics, Business Damages - Forensic Economics, Personal Injury, Business Interruption, Wrongful Death, Economic Damages, Labor Markets, Loss of Household Services, Economic Analysis, Present Value, Earning Capacity, Lost Profits, Statistical Analysis, Economic Research, Discrimination, Litigation Support, Federal Court

Dr. Roberts specializes in expert witness testimony for litigation, arbitration, and mediation cases involving a wide range of economic loss scenarios. Dr. Roberts has extensive experience as a Financial Analyst, Professor of Economics, Labor Economist, and Statistician. Dr. Roberts has worked on assignments involving personal injuries, business interruptions, wrongful deaths, wrongful terminations, market analyses, discrimination disputes, and economic damages. His engagements regularly include calculations of damage awards stemming from a loss of earnings (past and future), reduced earning capacities, diminished employee benefits, and the loss of household services. As a Professor of Economics, Dr. Roberts has experience teaching at the University of Utah, Weber State University, Westminster College, and Western Governor’s University. He has taught over twenty courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level, including Labor Economics, Statistics, Development Economics, Global...

Business Damages, Economics - Forensic accounting, economic damages, expert testimony, litigation support, business interruption, economic loss, business valuation, fraud examination, insurance loss accounting, catastrophic loss analysis, commercial disputes, economic research, federal court special master

Veritas Forensic Accounting and Economics specializes in expert witness testimony in litigation, arbitration, appraisal and mediation, and as a Court Appointed Special Masters, involving a wide variety of economic loss, forensic accounting, fraud examination and valuation scenarios. Veritas engagements are managed by professionals with federal and state court testifying experience and more than 25 years' tenure in their respective disciplines. Assignments have arisen out of such events as the Exxon Valdez and BP Oil Spills, the 9/11 attack, the Bellingham Pipeline Explosion, the 2008 banking crisis, and a wide variety of matters involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, business interruption, business dissolution, economic viability, class actions, bellwether plaintiffs, construction defect, construction delay and cost overrun, builder's risk policies, employee dishonesty, receivership, bankruptcy, fraud, insurance loss, inventory loss, property damage, intellectual ...

Business Valuation, Economics - Accounting, Business Damages, Business Operations, Dispute Resolution, Document Examination, Earning Capacity, Employment, Financial, Insurance, Legal, Real Estate, Statistics

Mr. Griffith has forty (40) plus years experience in public accounting. He also has experience as a cost accounting supervisor in industry and was an Assistant Professor of Accounting at West Virginia State College. Mr. Griffith has worked for many individuals and corporations in the areas of taxation, accounting, management advisory services and litigation support. Mr. Griffith has been accepted as an expert in various Circuit Courts throughout West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania and in the Federal Court for the Southern and Northern Districts of West Virginia and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He has been a Financial Consultant for businesses and attorneys in tax, financial and economic matters — often serves as an economic witness in litigation involving securities, personal injuries, fire losses, wrongful deaths, contractual disputes, matters before the Public Service Commission and business valuations. Roger is Director of Gray, Griffith & Mays...