Investigative Financial Consulting

We are uniquely positioned to offer financial consulting services that are enhanced by our team’s financial investigation expertise and litigation experience. Our investigative financial consulting practice includes:

Litigation Consulting & Dispute Resolution

We unravel complex financial issues in commercial and personal disputes.  Our integrated team provides insight and clarity to assist in every stage of a contested matter– from early case assessment and discovery through damage analysis to testimony.  Our team of experts is highly skilled at interpreting complicated financial and data driven facts. We can then communicate our findings to a trier of fact in understandable and visually meaningful flowcharts, timelines, pictures and stories.

Forensic Accounting

We conduct in-depth financial analysis and intelligence gathering to collect, analyze and evaluate financial data. We then illustrate findings that form the bases for discussion, debate and dispute resolution for plaintiffs or defendants, whether in a court of law or another forum.

Economic Damages

We use accepted methodologies to compute defensible economic damages.  We regularly testify in federal and state courts about financial loss:

Lost profits  |  Diminution of value or slow death  |  Lost business value  |  Lost wages and earnings  |  Present value of future medical costs

Intellectual Property

When a dispute arises on intellectual property, we assess the financial impact of infringement or misappropriation of patents, trademarks and Lanham Act claims, trade secrets and copyrights.  We have testified on issues involving:

Lost profits  |  Diminution of value  |  Unjust enrichment and disgorgement  |  Price erosion  |  Reasonable royalty  |  Valuation

Financial Distress

Our team has experience and expertise in bankruptcy, insolvency and reorganizations. As experienced fraud examiners, we understand how fraud can manifest in financial distress, and how financial distress motivates fraudulent acts.

Illustrated Analysis

Knowing that a picture is worth a thousand words, we assist litigators by presenting powerful, demonstrative exhibits that are effective and show a trier of fact conclusive information through flowcharts, timelines, pictures and stories.  Our proven methods illustrate the patterns and trends that tell the story encapsulated within massive amounts of data.

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Ralph Q. Summerford

President

Ralph Q. Summerford is the president of Forensic Strategic Solutions. Mr. Summerford has a broad range of forensic expertise, testifying as an expert witness in federal and state courts on matters involving complicated financial transaction, including fraud, economic damages, business valuation, bankruptcy and accounting malpractice.

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Kelly J. Todd

Managing Member

Kelly J. Todd is a managing member and the member in charge of forensic investigations at Forensic Strategic Solutions. Ms. Todd has a broad range of forensic experience including financial and white‐collar investigations, fraudulent financial reporting, accounting malpractice, and the calculation of economic damages.

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Lisa G. Miller

Director of Litigation Services

Lisa G. Miller, director of litigation services, has a broad range of experience in dispute and litigation services involving complex financial transactions, including contract disputes, accounting issues, intellectual property damages, lost profits and lost business value. Ms. Miller works closely with plaintiff and defense attorneys.

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Economic Damages – Civil Litigation

FSS was hired to compute reasonable and reliable estimates of economic damages and lost profits for an unestablished business, then to effectively present the findings of economic loss to a federal court jury. A business consortium of 15 individual charities and a gaming operator filed a civil suit in federal court alleging the defendant competing […]

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Lost Earnings – Wrongful Termination – Civil Litigation

FSS was hired to compute reasonable and reliable estimates of lost earnings for several plaintiffs and to testify to our findings of economic loss in federal court. Three law enforcement officers filed a civil suit against their former employer alleging they were wrongfully terminated in retaliation for reporting to state officials allegations of corruption and […]

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Debits, Credits, and…Edits? | Forensic Strategic Solutions

As accountants, we know the significance of numbers.  But in the process of balancing our debits and credits, it is easy to forget the significance of words.  Although it’s important to develop and maintain our skills in spreadsheets, calculations, and analysis, our writing skills are just as important.

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Strengthen Waged-Based Loss Cases with a Forensic Accounting Expert Sooner Rather than Later | Kelly J. Todd

I have worked in investigative financial consulting for more than 17 years, and during my tenure I have worked with attorneys in a variety of capacities to provide financial consulting and expert support in a broad range of personal and corporate disputes. One of those capacities includes serving as a forensic accounting expert on cases involving wage-based losses.

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