FORENSIC ACCOUNTANT
1. Forensic - defined by Webster: “Belonging to, used in, or suitable to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate.”
2. We define a forensic accountant as an expert who deals with the relation and application of business and/or financially related facts to legal problems.
3. Simply stated, Dirk von Guenthner is a trained accountant who has provided support in litigation matters since 1976 in hundreds of cases.
4. The forensic accountant is able to understand and provide input to the procedures followed in litigation, for example:
a. Review the Complaint and Answer;
b. Guide counsel with details on how the case should be organized with avenues to take to reach the objectives on a cost effective basis;
c. Draft Requests for Answers to Written Interrogatories;
d. Draft Requests for Production of Documents;
e. Draft Requests for Admissions;
f. Identify Trial Witnesses;
g. Prepare Witness profiles;
h. Prepare questions for witness depositions;
i. Prepare Voir Dire questions for counsel to ask Dirk von Guenthner;
j. Prepare deposition questions to ask Dirk von Guenthner;
k. Prepare expert report;
l. Prepare Witness Lists;
m. Prepare Trial Exhibit Lists;
n. Participate in Mediation; and,
o. Testify at trial.