What extra benefits does Eisner bring to its clients in the litigation consulting and forensic accounting areas?
Pagano: Clients in the legal community turn to us for our competence in providing forensic accounting and litigation consulting services and for our understanding of the legal community’s language – including our familiarity with the Rules of Civil Procedure and the Rules of Evidence. We strive earnestly to explain complex financial and accounting issues in very plain language, breaking down the components in a complex matter to their simplest form or explaining by way of analogy. Often we will also use demonstratives to explain a very difficult subject. We also assess both the strengths and weaknesses of not only our clients’ cases but also that of the opposing side. If the opposing side in a litigation has various strengths we point them out to counsel. Coming from the financial perspective, the accounting perspective, the tax perspective, the audit perspective, and, of course, the litigation consulting perspective, we suggest to counsel how to lay out the case and to discuss the iss