Financial Expert Witness “Beauty Contests”
Sometimes a business valuation or forensic accounting engagement comes down to the experience, skill, likeability and reputation of the particular expert witness and not who is right or wrong.
For CPE credit to view this presentation and others from this conference, click here: 2023 FORENSIC & VALUATION SERVICES CONFERENCE BUNDLE.
Experts can’t help if they don’t know about the case until late in the game.
- Preach “hire me asap” is in your marketing:
- Post cards
- Blog posts
- Social media
- Publish articles in legal journals
- Tennessee Bar Journal
- ABA Family Law Section
- Memphis Bar, Nashville Bar
- Present CLE to family lawyers and business litigators
- Pro tip: each section has a person whose job it is to coordinate CLE
- Take attorneys to lunch, one by one
Hidden Assets & Enhanced Financial Investigation: What “A List” Attorneys Know about Discovery Others Don’t. This presentation is for business valuation and forensic accounting expert witnesses.
Mason’s “Hidden Assets” presentation discusses: Experts must learn the legal process. When should experts stick their nose in? Why there is no line to worry about crossing. How subpoenas actually work. How experts can help with subpoenas. Why the subpoena process is not more frequently used and quick enough. Experiences that can expedite and move financial discovery forward. Why attorneys do things at the last minute. Why attorneys wait too late to hire the financial expert.
This video is an excerpt from Miles Mason, Sr., JD, CPA’s presentation at the 2023 Tennessee Society of CPA’s Forensic and Valuation Services Conference, Oct. 24, 2023, in Brentwood, Tennessee.
To learn more about divorce and forensic accounting, buy Mason’s The Forensic Accounting Deskbook published by the ABA Family Law Section. Forensic accounting can help family lawyers win cases while at the same time their clients are able to keep money which might otherwise be taken from them by the difficult and confusing divorce process. This updated edition of one the ABA’s most popular resources explains the practice of forensic accounting and business valuation and how to apply it in family law cases.
