Friday, July 30, 2010

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Litigation Service

Expert Testimony

Schulze Haynes Loevenguth & Co. provides counsel and clients with expert support, analysis and testimony in litigation, arbitration and mediation. Our approach is hands-on and consultative. The same highly experienced individual who will ultimately testify conducts the primary analysis and forms the relevant opinions, with appropriate assistance from staff. Our expertise and experience covers virtually every issue area that may arise in civil litigation. Similarly, we have provided effective consultation, analysis and testimony across all major industry and business sectors. Among the services we provide in relation to litigation consulting are the following:

  • Evaluation of issues and case strategy
  • Preliminary examination of documents
  • Discovery assistance
  • Assistance and guidance in preparing for deposition or cross-examination of experts
  • Detailed analysis
  • Development of economic damage models
  • Evaluation of damage analyses prepared by others
  • Presentation of expert testimony at deposition and trial

We have worked with international, regional and smaller law firms, and have served clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to family-owned businesses.

Among the many issue areas our analysis and testimony has covered are:

  • Accounting and auditing standards
  • Acquisition and divestiture disputes, earn-out calculations
  • Alter ego
  • Antitrust
  • Banking, lending and underwriting
  • Breach of contract
  • Class actions
  • Construction defects, delays and related construction and real estate matters
  • Copyright violations
  • Corporate governance and board responsibility
  • Credit damage
  • Criminal matters
  • Diminution of value
  • Disgorgement
  • Disputes in bankruptcy
  • Employment matters, including termination, stock options, profit sharing and other benefit plans
  • Fiduciary issues
  • Foreclosure
  • Franchise disputes and franchisee/franchisor accounting and reporting
  • Fraud and misappropriation
  • Fraudulent conversion
  • Investment fraud
  • Law firm dissolutions and partner buyouts
  • Lender liability
  • Lost profits
  • Mortgage banking and mortgage lending issues
  • Options, warrants and rights pricing and accounting
  • Partner accounting
  • Patent infringement
  • Personal injury
  • Ponzi schemes
  • Product liability
  • Professional malpractice, including accounting, legal, engineering and others
  • Royalties analyses and calculations
  • Securities matters
  • Shareholder derivative actions
  • Trade name and trade dress issues
  • Trade secrets theft
  • Valuation of businesses, segments or product lines
  • Wage and hour disputes