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Litigation Consulting and Forensic Accounting

 

Litigation attorneys are expected to provide their clients with the highest quality representation in their disputes.  At the same time, clients expect the attorneys to keep control of the litigation costs – including the costs of consultants and experts – without compromising quality.  Attorneys need persuasive, creative, yet practical assistance from your consultants and experts to provide maximum value to clients.

We help litigation attorneys maximize their value to clients by providing business and financial investigations and analyses, as well as related expert testimony on both damages and liability issues.  You get the quality and creativity of professionals with extensive experience at some of the nation’s largest and most prestigious consulting and accounting firms – without being burdened with the high fees that attorneys may have experienced from larger firms.

Yano Accountancy Corporation assists attorneys and their clients with liability and damages issues in the following types of disputes:

  • Construction claims and defects

  • Government contracting

  • Intellectual property

  • Personal injury/medical malpractice

  • Employment

  • Lost profits 

  • Direct and consequential damages

  • Business interruption

  • Forensic accounting

The best indicators of the quality of our services are examples of how we have met our clients’ recent needs.

Construction Claims

The general contractor on a large construction project received numerous extra work claims from sub-contractors.  Working with the general contractor, an approach was developed to analyze the general conditions first, which led to substantial reductions of all claims.

Lost Profits

A cross-plaintiff alleged that he was unable to obtain financing for his proposed foreign wholesaling operation because of the cross-defendant’s alleged actions, and sought over $9 million in damages.  Using published information about retail prices, inflation, salaries, wages and related benefits, as well as the cross-plaintiff’s assumptions about various operating expenses, it was shown that the proposed venture would not have been profitable.

Consequential Damages

A real estate developer stated that he suffered consequential damages in excess of $4 million due to alleged defective construction at a shopping center.  An analysis of the devel­oper’s damages claim, as well as the use of information from various service providers, and real estate and capital markets, resulted in testimony that consequential damages were less than $50,000.

Business Interruption

A lumber mill suffered business interruption damages, as well as loss of buildings and inventory, due to a fire.  The company suffering the damages claimed that the business interruption damages were approximately $1.5 million.  A review of the ade­quacy of the underlying assumptions and supporting documents led to a recalculation of damages of less than $400,000.

Liability

The plaintiff in a product liability dispute stated that all production areas were affected by the defendant’s allegedly defective products.  An analysis of the plaintiff’s records showed that the allegedly defective product was used only at a small fraction of the plaintiff’s production facilities, which refuted a substantial portion of the plaintiff’s  liability arguments.

Find Out More

Contact Eugene Yano for more information at +1 (415) 981-9970 or via e-mail.

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