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Client Seminars
HSSK
offers these suggested topics for law firm personnel. Each is
provided as a 2-hour "Brown
Bag" luncheon.
Appropriate
materials are provided
for submission for CLE credits.
Title: Economic
Principles of Business
Description: Damages
Addresses basic economic principles used in most economic damage
analyses for commercial claims.
Audience: This
is introductory material for newer associates.
Title:
Impeachment of Defective Economic
Analysis
Description: Addresses common errors
made by economic experts in commercial and personal injury cases
and appropriate rebuttal arguments.
Audience:
Commercial and personal injury
defense lawyers. This is introductory material for newer associates
and refresher for all others.
Title:
Principles of Business Valuation
Description:
Overviews the basic concepts of
valuation and nomenclature used. Addresses role of USPAP and how
to impeach a witness using USPAP
Audience: Commercial litigation,
estate and probate, corporate. Program is designed for all levels
of attorneys who use or come into contact with business valuations.
Title:
Regulatory Accounting Statements
Description:
Reconciliation of the common forms of
financial statements to those prepared in conformance with regulatory
requirements. Objective is to provide a frame of reference which
the attorney can use as a basis for understanding regulatory statements.
Audience: Regulatory lawyers, litigators
who work with regulated industries, such as insurance, utilities,
etc.
Title:
The Economic/Financial Expert and
Daubert
Description:
Current developments relating to qualifying
economic and financial experts, defending Daubert attacks and
questions that should always be asked.
Audience:
Trial lawyers of all levels.
Title:
Issues Related to the Valuation
of Intellectual Property
Description:
A discussion of the methodologies for
valuing intellectual property and determining reasonable royalties.
Provides an understanding of the drivers of IP value.
Audience: Lawyers who represent
clients with significant intellectual property assets.
Title:
Calculating Wage Based Losses
Description:
A primer on calculating lost wages-
estimating future wages, the wage earning cycle, handling benefits,
present value calculations.
Audience:
This is introductory material appropriate
for newer associates.
Title: Introduction
to Financial Statements
Description:
The basic financial statements
and how they interrelate, including the related footnotes and
disclosures. The types of reports CPAs issue and what they mean.
Audience: This material is appropriate
for anyone who needs to understand corporate accounting processes
and basic financial statements.
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