A Financial Forensics expert can assist a lawyer by providing services on many issues which are common and readily come to mind:

• Business Valuations – Utilizing historical financial records and proprietary databases to form an opinion of the value of a business for marital dissolution, partnership disputes, or a variety of other types of cases
• Marital Dissolution – In addition to business valuations, opinions on the breakdown of personal vs. enterprise goodwill of the business, money tracing, the evaluation of expenditures, and the valuation of other assets and debts
• Valuation of damages in civil litigation – Opinions on a variety of economic damages related to tort or breach of contract claims including lost profits, quantifying a business interruption loss, providing values for shareholder or partnership disputes, calculation of damages related to failure to perform on a contract or the net loss when having to obtain substitute performance
• Personal Injury cases – Opinions of the value of actual damages, lost wages including fringe benefits, or calculating the net present value of a life care plan
• Wrongful death – Calculating a value using data such as actuarial tables for work life expectancy, life expectancy, personal income, personal consumption, and value of household services to survivors
• Wrongful termination cases – Calculating the lost wages and benefits to the terminated employee
• Fraud Investigations – Coming into companies where fraud is suspected, conducting a quantitative data review and interviews of personnel to determine the scope of fraudulent activities, amount of loss, and detailing the methods utilized to perpetrate the fraud, preserving evidence in a manner to be presented to law enforcement if requested; a fraud investigation is significantly different that an audit and takes a different skill set
• Bankruptcy cases – Opinions regarding the feasibility of reorganization plans, solvency issues, identifying fraudulent transfers, administration of and accounting for the reorganization plan or liquidation

If you’re looking for a financial expert, give us a call at 918-814-2309 or
e-mail info@financialforensicsgroup.com.