Litigation Support

Litigation Support

When financial damage issues are involved in litigation, it is important that these issues be presented clearly, independently, and accurately. The professionals at Smith Dickson provide knowledgeable, objective opinions based on many years of experience and technical knowledge. We work with attorneys to analyze financial information, evaluate claims, calculate damages, prepare expert reports and render expert testimony. Our professionals can interpret, quantify, and provide expert testimony on the complicated financial information that is often needed to support a case.
 
Our forensic accounting specialists have logged thousands of hours of forensic accounting, deposition and trial experience in Federal and State court, both as expert witnesses and consultants in matters ranging from economic damages to fraud and embezzlement. We have worked as court appointed referees. Smith Dickson’s forensic accounting specialists will support your case with the highest level of expertise available.

Areas of Expertise

  • Business owner disputes
  • Economic damages 
  • Employment matters 
  • Entertainment
  • Family law
  • Forensic accounting
  • Fraud and embezzlement 
  • Intellectual property 
  • Investigations
  • Personal injury 
  • Real estate/construction 
  • Taxation 
  • Trust and estate

Types of Engagements

  • Asset accounting and tracing
  • Breach of fiduciary duty
  • Business dissolution
  • Business interruption
  • Business valuations
  • Capitalization/note tracing
  • Cash flow, trends, budgets, forecasts  
  • Employee embezzlement
  • Estate/trust disputes
  • Financial record reconstruction 
  • Identification of false tax returns
  • Insurance bad faith
  • Internal accounting controls
  • Investment tracing
  • Kiting of corporate bank funds
  • Loss in value of securities
  • Loss of earnings
  • Lost profits/unjust enrichment 
  • Medical malpractice
  • Misstatement of business liabilities
  • Misuse of corporate/LLC assets and funds
  • Ownership allocations
  • Tax gains and losses – civil and criminal
  • Trust and estate accounting
  • Unauthorized transactions by officers, directors, partners, shareholders
  • Unrecorded income
  • Wrongful death
  • Wrongful termination 

Expert Testimony

  • U.S. District Court
  • Superior Court, multiple Counties and States
  • Probate Court
  • Family Law Court
  • Private, binding and voluntary arbitration
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