Analysis Expert Witnesses
Many complex commercial disputes ultimately turn on a single analytical question: what does the evidence actually show when examined with the right method? Investors and trustees contest the analysis behind mortgage-backed securities, structured products, and credit decisions, insurers and claimants dispute fraud findings and claims analyses, and companies challenge the forensic accounting, construction cost analysis, and market research used to support or defend claims. Authorship, authenticity, and meaning become decisive in disputes involving contested communications, recordings, and documents, while engineering, acoustic, chemical, and imaging analyses determine the outcome of product, patent, and property disputes. In each matter, the central issue is whether the analysis offered was sound, reliable, and properly applied to the facts.
An analysis expert addresses that issue by selecting and applying the method suited to the evidence, whether forensic linguistics for authorship and meaning, acoustic and voice analysis for recordings, structural and finite element analysis for failures, chemical and materials analysis for products, statistical and econometric analysis for markets, or forensic accounting for financial records. Equally important, the expert evaluates whether an opposing analysis used appropriate data, assumptions, and controls, and whether its conclusions follow from the results. That work frequently determines causation, because it distinguishes what the evidence demonstrates from what it merely suggests. The resulting opinions support liability and damages across a wide range of commercial disputes and give counsel a disciplined basis for excluding or discrediting unreliable analysis.
Analysis expertise is inherently discipline-specific, so the right expert is one whose method and experience match the evidence in dispute. The experts we present include a forensic linguist who has worked with the FBI and testified 11 times on covert recordings, authorship, and confessions, an acoustics and psychoacoustics specialist who has testified 35 times on patent infringement, audio authentication, and voice analysis, and a digital imaging scientist inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame for work in biomedical image processing. Our network also includes a fixed income specialist who has testified 30 times on mortgage-backed securities and structured investment vehicles, a residential mortgage-backed securities analyst with more than a decade at Moody's and S&P, a construction forensic accountant who has testified 50 times, and a human factors researcher whose work for the Department of Transportation led to the center high-mounted brake light requirement. Round Table Group brings more than 75,000 expert searches for litigators to the work of matching that expertise to your case, and you can start that process by calling us at (202) 908-4500.