Litigation Support Services

Few civil matters in the legal system are able to be fully resolved without consideration of financial information. Unfortunately, complexities in the financial arena can often equal or even exceed those found in the law. With the realization that proper representation of your client requires an in depth understanding of relevant and critical financial information, it is very often necessary to involve financial consultants and advisors.

The role of financial consultants and advisors can vary widely depending on the facts of the case, as they are understood and communicated by legal counsel; the nature of the legal proceeding; the venue in which the matter will be decided or may be decided in the future; vailability and quality of both historical and prospective financial information; and whether the financial consultants and advisors are to be engaged as consulting experts or independent and objective expert witnesses.

At Grossman Yanak & Ford LLP our team of professionals have provided financial consulting and advisory services to members of the legal community on a broad number of complex business and financial matters presented in an extensive array of legal settings. Our role is most often that of expert witnesses, but we have served as consulting experts to advise legal counsel on complex financial matters within the framework of case consultation, including strength of their legal arguments as they apply to financial matters.

Our team will provide you, and your client, with a quality result second to none. Our highly experienced team leadership will ensure that you get the best service available and that the process sets forth clean, consistent and complete court findings. In this way, we have come to experience strong success and an excellent reputation in the court system and the legal community.

General areas where we bring high level skills and extensive experience to bear in a legal setting includes:

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Expert Witness Services

Quality expert witness services call for an individual who is not just technically competent, but one who is also able to think creatively, understand sophisticated legal concepts and render his or her opinion in a manner that is exceedingly clear, succinct and convincing. In addition, a quality expert witness must be one whose strengths allow for calm consistency in the face of challenging cross examination.

Grossman Yanak & Ford LLP is not a firm of hundreds of experts. Nor are we a firm of testifying experts. Our forte is financial matters and we specialize in those matters, testifying as to the those matters when circumstances dictate. Only our partners and our most highly experienced managers testify as expert witnesses, thereby ensuring that your case and your client receive our very best.

Our professionals have attended a substantial number of depositions, hearings and trials and have testified regularly over the last twenty years. In addition, members of our firm have participated in many courses on expert witness testimony.

Economic Damages and Lost Profit Calculations

Cases involving economic damages and lost profits are the most common types of litigation support services undertaken by our firm.· The provision of these services often require accounting, tax, and forensic specialists to work with business valuation specialists with finance, economics and statistics backgrounds to obtain the most accurate and complete calculation for consideration in resolving the legal dispute.

Investigative accounting skill sets are often critical to the successful provision of these calculations. Whether the legal issues involve fraud, business interruption, contractual failures, catastrophic events or other causes of economic damages, Grossman Yanak & Ford LLP has the expertise, experience and team leadership to accurately determine economic damage calculations and produce economic damage expert opinion reports that are of the highest quality.

Business valuation services

Lost wages determinations

Intangible asset services

- Patent infringement

- Unpatented business know-how

- Trade secrets

Forensic accounting services