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Litigation Consulting Services
The Tax Accounting Group offers a range of consulting services to lawyers and law firms representing clients in various stages of litigation. Our practitioners assist in the pre-trial and discovery phases and at trial by providing:
- preliminary damage assessment and case strategy development
- asset recovery investigations, including location of subjects, asset and encumbrance identification and services of process
- competitive intelligence
- computation of fair market value of assets, stock and business enterprises
- corporate risk assessment
- cost estimation
- damage measurement including business interruption, claims preparation, wrongful death, lost earnings and lost profits
- domestic relations representation and planning, including analysis of income tax consequences of divorce property settlements and on-going support payments, assistance with alimony and child support negotiations and calculations, assistance with preparation of property settlement and support agreements, forensic examination of personal financial representations and closely held businesses, assistance with locating and valuing marital property, as well as valuation of a business or business interest, and expert witness testimony
- due diligence
- expert witness testimony and analysis of opposing experts
- forensic and investigative accounting
- fraud and embezzlement detection and assessment, including internal corporate investigations
- preparing special purpose reports
- determination of taxability of settlements and judgments
Our practitioners also assist litigators by:
- identifying, locating and interviewing witnesses
- drafting interrogatory and deposition questions, subpoenas, stipulations, document requests, petitions and motions
- assisting in pre-trial settlement conferences and negotiations
- developing and preparing exhibits for trial
- assisting in cross-examination
- assisting in the representation of clients in criminal matters before the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Justice, and state and local governments
In conjunction with our Information Services Group, our practitioners assist counsel in the development and use of technological tools to gather, organize, analyze and ultimately present the evidence by providing case management services as follows:
- case assessment and planning
- database planning and design
- deposition transcript repository and case management guidance
- trial preparation assistance
- software evaluation
For More Information
For additional information, please contact Michael A. Gillen, CPA, CFE, Director of the Tax Accounting Group.