Practice Area
Economic-damages and financial-loss analysis, forensic accounting, and expert testimony for trial-bound matters.
Fortaris quantifies economic damages and financial loss for personal-injury and commercial disputes alike — lost earnings, future earning capacity, lost profits, and fraud-driven loss — and delivers the forensic-accounting work, expert reports, and expert witness testimony that decide matters at trial and in arbitration. We are engaged plaintiff- and defense-side by law firms, corporate legal departments, insurers, businesses, trustees, and regulators throughout the United States. Grounded in decades of federal financial-investigative experience and CPA and forensic-accounting expertise, our conclusions are defensible, independent, and built to withstand scrutiny.
How clients use us
Litigation support engagements typically begin with a clear question and a defined matter, and Fortaris is brought in by counsel when the matter requires economic-damages quantification, financial-forensic capacity, investigative depth, or testimony that holds up under cross-examination.
Lost-wage and lost-earnings analysis, future earning-capacity assessments, and self-employment or business-income reconstruction for plaintiff- and defense-side personal-injury and wrongful-loss claims.
Business-interruption and lost-profit analysis, commercial damage calculations, and economic-damages modeling in contract, shareholder, partnership, and M&A disputes.
Fraud and misrepresentation detection, embezzlement loss, asset tracing, and financial investigations supporting recovery, regulatory enforcement, and white-collar defense.
Asset searches, fraudulent-conveyance analysis, related-party transaction reviews, and trustee, receiver, debtor-in-possession, and creditors'-committee support.
Daubert-ready expert reports, expert witness testimony, and pre-arbitration investigative work for commercial, construction, and international arbitration.
We support both plaintiff- and defense-side engagements across commercial litigation, arbitration, regulatory enforcement, white-collar criminal defense, and bankruptcy and receivership matters.
Capabilities
Quantification of economic damages and financial loss across personal-injury and commercial matters — built on CPA and forensic-accounting expertise and decades of federal financial-investigative experience, delivered as defensible, independent conclusions that withstand scrutiny.
Calculation of past and ongoing lost wages and lost earnings for personal-injury, wrongful-termination, and wrongful-loss claims, supported by tax-return and financial-record review.
Assessment of diminished or lost future earning capacity, accounting for career trajectory, occupation, and economic factors over the claimant's work-life horizon.
Reconstruction of income for self-employed claimants and closely held businesses where records are incomplete or contested, establishing a defensible earnings baseline.
Forensic analysis of tax returns, bank records, and financial statements to establish income, verify representations, and surface inconsistencies relevant to damages and fraud.
Detection and quantification of fraud, embezzlement, and financial misrepresentation, led under ACFE Certified Fraud Examiner methodology where the matter calls for it.
Locating assets, identifying ownership pathways, and tracing fund flows to support judgment enforcement, post-fraud recovery, and cross-border matters.
Comprehensive damages modeling integrating earnings, profits, and loss components into a single, well-documented, court-ready calculation.
Modeling of lost profits and business interruption, including but-for revenue analysis and intercompany-transaction reconstruction.
Damages quantification for contract disputes, business-valuation disputes, and related commercial matters, prepared for trial and arbitration.
Investigative and financial support for post-acquisition disputes, earn-out and working-capital matters, statutory appraisal proceedings, and shareholder and partner conflicts, including deal-record reconstruction and management-conduct review.
Managing Directors and credentialed specialists serve as expert witnesses on economic damages, fraud examination, asset tracing, and investigative methodology, with reports designed to survive Daubert and Kumho Tire challenges and present clearly to triers of fact.
Pre-suit and early-matter assessments investigating the factual basis of a dispute before counsel commits to a litigation theory or settlement posture — subject-matter research, public-records review, key-person background work, and an evidentiary read on the strength of the matter.
Document review, custodian-data preservation, metadata analysis, and digital evidence handling, coordinated with counsel and forensic-IT partners to preserve chain-of-custody and keep deliverables admissible.
Investigative interviews of witnesses, custodians, and parties conducted to evidentiary standards, documented, and structured to support counsel's strategy, with polygraph capability where the matter calls for it and counsel agrees.
Pre-arbitration investigative work, witness preparation, expert reports for arbitration panels, and rebuttal-witness engagements across commercial, construction, and international arbitration.
Investigations conducted under privilege specifically to inform litigation strategy or regulatory engagement, coordinated tightly with counsel.
Why Fortaris
Built for
Commercial litigation, white-collar defense, regulatory enforcement, and investigations practices.
Engagements where the firm needs economic-damages, forensic, and investigative capacity it does not maintain in-house.
Matters managed under privilege where independence from regular outside counsel is required.
Independent damages analysis and financial-loss review for personal-injury and commercial claims, plaintiff- and defense-side.
Companies pursuing or defending lost-profit, fraud, partnership, and shareholder matters that require defensible economic-damages support.
Post-acquisition disputes, fraud discoveries, and IP and trade-secret matters.
Bankruptcy and restructuring matters requiring asset searches and financial investigation.
Supporting enforcement and oversight matters.
Fortaris does not provide legal advice or act as counsel, and we do not replace the case team — our role is to deliver the economic-damages analysis, forensic-accounting work, and expert testimony that support counsel's strategy. We do not publicize matter wins or disclose client names, and we do not take engagements that compromise the independence our conclusions depend on.
Frequently asked
We quantify damages across personal-injury and commercial matters — lost wages and earnings, future earning capacity, self-employment and business-income reconstruction, lost profits, business interruption, and fraud-driven loss — grounded in tax-return and financial-record analysis, CPA and forensic-accounting expertise, and decades of federal financial-investigative experience. Conclusions are independent, defensible, and documented to withstand scrutiny.
Managing Directors and credentialed specialists are available to testify in federal and state court, in arbitration, and in regulatory proceedings. Specific past-testimony references are available under confidentiality once an engagement scoping conversation is underway.
Yes. The majority of our litigation-support engagements are managed through outside counsel under privilege. We are accustomed to integrating with case teams and adapting deliverables to counsel's matter strategy.
Yes. Expert reports are prepared to Daubert and Kumho Tire standards, with methodology, qualifications, and evidentiary basis documented to survive challenge.
Yes — including commercial arbitration, construction disputes, international arbitration, mediation, and statutory appraisal proceedings.
Fortaris conducts litigation-support engagements nationwide, throughout the United States, drawing on federal investigative pedigree, Managing Director coverage across our offices, and a 200+ specialist subcontractor network. International matters are coordinated with vetted local partners.
Engagements are typically scoped on a project or retainer basis. Expert witness engagements are billed at the expert's standard hourly rate plus matter-specific scope. Initial scoping conversations are confidential and carry no obligation.
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Explore practiceThe most useful litigation support engagements begin before the complaint is filed, not after — when economic-damages exposure and financial-loss questions can still shape strategy. Fortaris engagements begin with a confidential conversation about your matter, your posture, and the specific questions where damages quantification, forensic, or investigative capacity will move the case.
For sensitive matters, reach Kevin Cronin directly: (833) 343-2164
