Our experienced team can provide every technical and financial analysis aspect of a litigation including:
1. Fact Gathering
When devising a
legal strategy, attorneys must have a complete understanding of the facts of
the case. Often key pieces of data are missing that may prevent counsel from
providing fully informed legal advice to their clients. UHY Advisors’
professionals offer decades of experience assisting attorneys by gathering
essential facts and intelligence in connection with civil litigation, criminal
cases, arbitration and regulatory proceedings.
Our clients
rely on the expertise of UHY Advisors’ former prosecutors and law enforcement
officers, Certified Fraud Examiners, attorneys and other seasoned litigation
support professionals. The skills we utilize include a combination of targeted
research techniques, in depth witness interviews and other intelligence
gathering methodologies to fill in the knowledge gaps and provide a full
arsenal of relevant and timely information that can be used in settlement
negotiations, in court pleadings or as evidence in arbitrations, in mediations
or at trial.
2. Witness, Expert and Jury Vetting
Litigators need to have
as much reliable information as possible when preparing for trial. Two key factors that can
dictate the outcome of a trial are the witnesses called to testify and
composition of the jury. UHY Advisors’ Global Business Intelligence and
Investigations group has extensive experience screening expert and fact
witnesses who will testify on behalf of our clients to ensure that undisclosed
facts about the background of any witness does not cause the individual’s
testimony to be discredited or excluded. We also conduct extensive
background investigations of witnesses called by the opposing parties to
identify weaknesses in their credibility, such as criminal history or
undisclosed conflicts of interest, as well as to identify conflicting prior
statements or testimony. We also provide jury screening services that
allow litigators to have sufficient information to exclude jury members who may
be prejudiced against their clients or who may have conflicts of interest.
3. Digital Forensics
The use of electronic
communication and digital storage has become a critical component of conducting
business today. Almost all workers – from the CEO to the copy room
employee – utilize technology every day to transfer, collect and organize
information. As a result, when disputes arise, some of the most fruitful
places to obtain answers are in the hard drives, servers, databases, emails and
mobile devices of the individuals and entities involved.
UHY Advisors’ professionals
and associates were involved in some of the earliest private digital
forensic investigations and continue to be leaders in this industry. Our
experience in recovering and analyzing “deleted” digital evidence using
state-of-the-art procedures that preserve chain-of-custody, coupled with our
deep understanding of legal and strategic factors in litigation, has helped to
position UHY Advisors as a major player in the digital forensic field.
For example, in
a recent litigation support investigation, our digital forensics experts
uncovered evidence that two former employees of a company had been using
company computers and mobile devices to misappropriate company trade secrets
and to remotely access client lists in connection with their formation of a new
competing business. Information set forth in an affidavit of UHY Advisors’
forensic experts led a Federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order
against the suspect employees, after which they promptly settled the case.