Lost Profits in Commercial Litigation: Proving and Defending Damages
Calculation Methodologies, Documentation, Expert Evidence
A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
This CLE webinar will show litigators how financial experts quantify lost profits so that trial counsel can understand the framework, bases, and aspects of a lost profits damages calculation and then use those figures and calculations to prove or defend against a lost profits damages claim.
Outline
- Framework for lost profits damages
- Evidence/documentation
- Quantification of lost profits damages
- Presentation of lost profits damages
- Defending against lost profits damages
Benefits
The panel will review these and other crucial issues:
- What evidence and documentation are necessary to prove and defend lost profits damages claims?
- What methodologies can be used to establish lost profits damages?
- What is the most recent case law about lost profits?
- Does it matter whether the damages alleged are general or special?
Faculty
Mareesa A. Frederick
Partner
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Ms. Frederick's practice focuses on client counseling, opinion work, and patent and other intellectual property... | Read More
Ms. Frederick's practice focuses on client counseling, opinion work, and patent and other intellectual property litigation with a particular emphasis on Section 337 proceedings before the International Trade Commission (ITC). She has experience in a broad range of technologies including cosmetics, pharmaceutical products, semiconductor chips and packaging, mobile telephones and digital cameras. She also has extensive technical experience in polymer processing through her previous employment with Mobil Chemical, Films Division where she worked as a R&D engineer and a process engineer.
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Frederick (Erick) Poorbaugh
Senior Associate
Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig
Mr. Poorbaugh’s practice covers a wide variety of areas, ranging from personal injury to intellectual property.... | Read More
Mr. Poorbaugh’s practice covers a wide variety of areas, ranging from personal injury to intellectual property. He has extensive experience working for the courts, during which he advised judges regarding a wide variety of legal issues. Prior to joining DBL, Mr. Poorbaugh served for several years as a staff attorney for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and a law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He has also interned for both a federal district judge and the Chief Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court.
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Dr. Allyn Needham, Ph.D., CEA
Partner
Shipp Needham Economic Analysis
Dr. Needham has been a partner and testifying expert at Shipp Needham Economic Analysis, LLC since 1997. During that... | Read More
Dr. Needham has been a partner and testifying expert at Shipp Needham Economic Analysis, LLC since 1997. During that time he has testified in cases involving personal injury, wrongful death, employment matters, commercial damages, business valuation, and matters relating to Chapter 11 bankruptcies. For personal damages litigation, Dr. Needham has expertise in calculating lost earning capacity, lost expected earnings, lost economic support, lost household services, and the present value of future medical expenses. For commercial damages, he has estimated lost profits, past and future out-of-pocket expenses, and lost business value. Dr. Needham has testified on behalf of attorneys representing plaintiffs and defendants in both state and federal courts and FINRA arbitrations. He has testified at trials or hearings in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Mississippi, California, Alaska and Washington D.C.
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