Litigation Support
Definition
Work done by a forensic accountant to assist counsel in civil or commercial disputes: calculating damages, modelling lost profits, or reviewing opposing expert reports. Distinct from an investigation, which aims to find wrongdoing.
- Practitioner
- Forensic accountant
- Setting
- Civil or commercial dispute
- Typical outputs
- Damages calculation, lost-profits model, rebuttal of opposing expert report
- Distinct from
- An investigation aimed at finding wrongdoing
Common questions
How does litigation support differ from a fraud investigation?+
Litigation support quantifies loss or damages for a dispute already before counsel and a court. A fraud investigation instead sets out to determine whether wrongdoing occurred in the first place.
What does reviewing an opposing expert's report involve?+
The forensic accountant critiques the methodology, assumptions, and data sources behind the other side's damages model, identifying weaknesses counsel can raise in cross-examination or a rebuttal report.
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