HSDA Litigation support services and consultants provide a wide range of services to help lawyers, law firms, and legal departments prepare for litigation, including creating and displaying exhibits and displays, forensic computer issues and data recovery, private investigation, expert witness searches, mediation and facilitation (ADR), child custody evaluations, records and deposition summaries, nursing, and jury consultant services.
Accountants
Accountants offer a wide range of litigation-related services. A forensic accountant can provide services including audits, and review of accountant performance and financial documents for fraud, misconduct, or violation of industry standards.
When concerns about fraud, abuse, embezzlement or accounting irregularities arise, Kroll has the investigative prowess and accounting expertise needed to uncover the facts and determine whether the numbers add up.
How We Investigate
HSDA forensic accountants examine and analyze relevant business records, reconstruct books and interview involved parties. We uncover relevant facts to determine:
- if suspicious activity has occurred
- how long it has been in progress
- how it was concealed
- the value of the impact
Additionally, we are able to quantify losses as a result of the fraud, helping to drive recovery, litigation and insurance claims strategies.
HSDA has extensive experience in assisting clients who are subject to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Our forensic accountants evaluate previously issued accounting statements, determine whether a misstatement occurred, quantify the amount of the restatement and establish the cause. Subsequently, we can make recommendations for corrective action and assist in dealings with the SEC.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Dispute resolution professionals and services can provide assistance with preparation for alternative dispute resolution, including evaluative mediation, facilitation, arbitration, and case evaluation. They also typically provide dispute resolution services.
Case Evaluation
A case evaluation service will review facts, evidence, documents, and other available information in order to determine if there is a viable legal cause of action, and to suggest possible approaches to litigation. Such a review can help reduce the cost of litigation, increase the chances of settlement, and help attorneys avoid filing lawsuits which are not viable. Many medical malpractice lawyers have their cases reviewed by doctors or legal nurses.
Contract Attorneys
Contract attorneys provide freelance services to other lawyers, law firms, or legal departments on a contractual basis. A contract lawyer may offer services for a court appearance, by the hour, by the day, week, or month, or by the job, and as an independent contractor or temporary employee.
Evidence Services
An evidence service provides assistance with the preparation, preservation, and storage of evidence.
- Demonstrative
- Electronic
- Medical Imaging
- Photographic
- Storage
Exhibit & Document Preparation
Exhibit and document services perform a wide range of services to assist with the preparation, management, copying, preservation, and filing of documents, pleadings, trial and appellate motions and briefs, and exhibits.
Expert Witness Location
An expert witness referral service assists lawyers with the process of finding and retaining qualified experts. Some services work on a flat fee basis, while others charge a percentage of the expert's fee or a premium above the fee. Some provide supervision over the experts, or billing services.
Family Law & Child Custody
Services provided by family law consultants and expert witnesses include evaluation of parents and children for child custody litigation, or may provide expertise with relation to the value of marital assets, assistance with preparation and interpretation of qualified domestic relations orders (QDRO's), school evaluation, and assistance with parental kidnapping cases.
- Support Arrearages
- Child Abduction (International)
- Child Custody Evaluation
- Divorce Mediation
- Genealogy
- Guardian ad Litem Services
- Marital Estate Valuation
- Pension Valuation
- QDRO
- School Evaluation
- Supervised Visitation
Forensic Animation
Forensic animation services provide still images, videos, and multimedia presentations. In accident cases, a forensic computer animation may recreate how the accident occurred, illustrate how it might have been avoided, or bring to life the opinion of an expert witness. Increasingly, good computer animation approaches photorealistic quality.
- Architectural
- Automobile Accidents
- Crime Scenes
- Environmental
- Fires and Explosions
- General
- Intellectual Property
- Medical
- Personal Injury
- Shooting Incidents
Handwriting Analysis
Questioned document experts provide consultation and testimony relating to documents which may have been altered or forged, including analyzing checks, wills and estate planning documents, photographs, passports and identity cards, medical records, and foreign documents, also addressing handwriting identification and fake signatures.
Legal Nurse Consultants
A nursing care expert, legal nurse, or consultant in forensic nursing can provide expertise on subjects including medical treatment and aftercare, emergency treatment and triage, home health care, standard of care, midwife conduct, and school nursing issues, and case evaluation services.
- Aeromedical
- Anaesthesia
- Cardiac
- Critical Care
- Developmental Disabilities
- Diabetes Care
- Emergency
- General
- Geriatrics
- Gynecology
- Home Health
- Infusion Therapy
- Intensive Care
- Internet Medicine
- Midwifery
- Neonatology
- Nephrology
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- Neurology
- Nursing Homes
- Obstetrics
- Ophthalmology
- Pediatrics
- Post-Anaesthesia
- Psychiatric
- Radiology
- Rehabilitation
- Respiratory Care
- School Nursing
- Standards
- Substance Abuse
- Surgery
- Telephone Triage
- Transplantation
- Women's Health
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Private Investigators and Detectives
Our HSDA private investigators or private detectives can assist with such matters as location of witnesses, missing persons, and heirs, detection of fraud, surveillance for domestic relations, workers' compensation and insurance cases, and security.
- Auto Theft
- Autopsies - Medical
- Autopsies - Psychological
- Autopsy Review
- Background Investigations
- Computer Crime
- Corporate Espionage
- Counterfeit Goods
- Crime Investigation
- Crime Laboratory Practices
- Death/Homicide Investigation
- Due Diligence
- Electronic Countermeasures
- Employee Theft
- Environmental
- Executive Protection
- Financial
- Fraud
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- General
- Heir Location
- Hidden Assets
- Illegal Entry
- Industry Standards
- K-9 Services
- Loss Prevention
- Marine Loss
- Missing Persons
- Personal Injury
- Process Service
- Property Damage
- Restaurant Spotting
- Secret Shopping
- Surveillance
- Threats and Stalking
- Workers Compensation
- Workplace Injury
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Photographic Services
HSDA experts and consultants in the field of photographs and video perform services including the taking, production, and analysis of traditional, aerial, and three dimensional photographs and videos, image processing, forensic photography, and photogrammetric (process of making maps, scale drawings, and precise measurements from photographs).
- 3D Photography
- Aerial Photography
- Forensic Photography
- Image Processing
- Photogrammetric
- Video Depositions
- Presentations Audio and Visual
- Records Summaries
- Research Services
- Trial and Jury Consultants
Presentations (Audio and Visual)
Presentations services help prepare and integrate photographs, film, video and similar items into exhibits, day-in-the-life videos, PowerPoint and multimedia presentations, often for use at hearings or trials. They may also provide consultation on presentation technology.
Records Summaries
Records summarizing services provide summaries and abstracts of documents, including trial and deposition testimony, legal and medical records, and provide software products to assist with document review and analysis
Research Services
HSDA professional researchers offer services including public record research, including property, divorce, state and federal criminal records, intellectual property, patent and trademark databases, employee histories, legal research, and medical literature searches.
- Employment
- Entertainment Industry
- Intellectual Property
- Legal Research
- Medical Research
- Public Records
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