Expert Witness & Litigation Consulting
Need a financial expert?
When you need a financial expert, we can be the perfect solution. You need to know that your consultants’ unbiased opinions, experience, discretion, and strategic vision will exceed your expectations. Our litigation consulting team is known for quality and integrity in the development of our professional opinions in matters involving:
We provide expert litigation support, with direct partner involvement at every phase of the dispute.
We have experience with:
- Fraud and embezzlement
- Breach of contract
- Intellectual property
- Bankruptcy and creditors’ rights
- Professional negligence
- Bank compliance
- Money laundering
- Securities litigation
- Labor and employment claims
- Family law
- Tortious interference
- Construction claims
- Insurance claims, including business interruption claims
- Class actions
- Corporate dissolution
- Personal injury
- Wrongful death
- Product liability
- Medical malpractice
- Taxation
Our economic damage models often incorporate:
- Lost profits
- Lost or diminished business value
- Lost wages and benefits
- Lost earning capacity
- Out-of-pocket damages
- Punitive damages
- Cost overrun and delay damages
- Liquidated damages and other damage measurements specific to each matter
We are often extensively involved in many phases of case strategy, analysis and discovery, including consultations regarding case theories and economic merits, discovery assistance, document organization and control, and deposition assistance. Our professionals have testified as experts in federal and state courts as well as domestic and international arbitration.
Key Contacts
Steven Berwick, CVA, CITP, CPA, CFF
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Miami
Steven M. Berwick joined Kaufman Rossin in 1974 and serves as a principal in the firm's audit and litigation practices. He has extensive experience in lost profit calculations, commercial damage models, professional malpractice matters, and expert witness testimony. He has testified in over 50 c…
Michael P. Elkin, CPA, CFF, ABV, CFE
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Miami
Michael Elkin serves as a Principal in the firm's forensic, advisory, and valuation services practice. For more than 30 years, he has provided business consulting, forensic accounting, litigation consulting, and expert witness testimony in the areas of financial investigations, economic damages,…
Adam Rabinowitz, CPA, CFF, CVA, CFE
Practice Leader, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Miami
Adam co-leads Kaufman Rossin's Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services practice.
Adam is a forensic accounting professional with more than 15 years of experience in providing expert witness and litigation consulting services related to:
- economic damages,
- business val…
Kara Stearns Sharp, CPA, CFF, CFE, CVA
Practice Leader, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Miami
Kara Stearns Sharp co-leads Kaufman Rossin’s forensic, advisory and valuation services practice, where she brings clients more than 25 years of experience in the accounting industry. She specializes in investigative and forensic accounting, due diligence, and business advisory services.
She pr…
Robert A. Stone, CPA, ABV, CFF
Principal, Senior Client Services
Miami
For more than four decades, Robert A. Stone has helped wealthy clients and entrepreneurs manage complex problems and capitalize on opportunities. His practice is grounded in audit, accounting, and tax services. He counsels clients on estate and trust planning, and mergers and acquisitions.
When p…
Steven Berwick, CVA, CITP, CPA, CFF
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Miami
Steven M. Berwick joined Kaufman Rossin in 1974 and serves as a principal in the firm's audit and litigation practices. He has extensive experience in lost profit calculations, commercial damage models, professional malpractice matters, and expert witness testimony. He has testified in over 50 c…
Michael P. Elkin, CPA, CFF, ABV, CFE
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Miami
Michael Elkin serves as a Principal in the firm's forensic, advisory, and valuation services practice. For more than 30 years, he has provided business consulting, forensic accounting, litigation consulting, and expert witness testimony in the areas of financial investigations, economic damages,…
Adam Rabinowitz, CPA, CFF, CVA, CFE
Practice Leader, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Miami
Adam co-leads Kaufman Rossin's Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services practice.
Adam is a forensic accounting professional with more than 15 years of experience in providing expert witness and litigation consulting services related to:
- economic damages,
- business val…
Kara Stearns Sharp, CPA, CFF, CFE, CVA
Practice Leader, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Miami
Kara Stearns Sharp co-leads Kaufman Rossin’s forensic, advisory and valuation services practice, where she brings clients more than 25 years of experience in the accounting industry. She specializes in investigative and forensic accounting, due diligence, and business advisory services.
She pr…
Robert A. Stone, CPA, ABV, CFF
Principal, Senior Client Services
Miami
For more than four decades, Robert A. Stone has helped wealthy clients and entrepreneurs manage complex problems and capitalize on opportunities. His practice is grounded in audit, accounting, and tax services. He counsels clients on estate and trust planning, and mergers and acquisitions.
When p…
Steven Berwick, CVA, CITP, CPA, CFF
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Miami
Steven M. Berwick joined Kaufman Rossin in 1974 and serves as a principal in the firm's audit and litigation practices. He has extensive experience in lost profit calculations, commercial damage models, professional malpractice matters, and expert witness testimony. He has testified in over 50 c…
Michael P. Elkin, CPA, CFF, ABV, CFE
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Miami
Michael Elkin serves as a Principal in the firm's forensic, advisory, and valuation services practice. For more than 30 years, he has provided business consulting, forensic accounting, litigation consulting, and expert witness testimony in the areas of financial investigations, economic damages,…
Adam Rabinowitz, CPA, CFF, CVA, CFE
Practice Leader, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Miami
Adam co-leads Kaufman Rossin's Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services practice.
Adam is a forensic accounting professional with more than 15 years of experience in providing expert witness and litigation consulting services related to:
- economic damages,
- business val…
Kara Stearns Sharp, CPA, CFF, CFE, CVA
Practice Leader, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Miami
Kara Stearns Sharp co-leads Kaufman Rossin’s forensic, advisory and valuation services practice, where she brings clients more than 25 years of experience in the accounting industry. She specializes in investigative and forensic accounting, due diligence, and business advisory services.
She pr…
Robert A. Stone, CPA, ABV, CFF
Principal, Senior Client Services
Miami
For more than four decades, Robert A. Stone has helped wealthy clients and entrepreneurs manage complex problems and capitalize on opportunities. His practice is grounded in audit, accounting, and tax services. He counsels clients on estate and trust planning, and mergers and acquisitions.
When p…
Steven Berwick, CVA, CITP, CPA, CFF
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Miami
Steven M. Berwick joined Kaufman Rossin in 1974 and serves as a principal in the firm's audit and litigation practices. He has extensive experience in lost profit calculations, commercial damage models, professional malpractice matters, and expert witness testimony. He has testified in over 50 c…
Michael P. Elkin, CPA, CFF, ABV, CFE
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Miami
Michael Elkin serves as a Principal in the firm's forensic, advisory, and valuation services practice. For more than 30 years, he has provided business consulting, forensic accounting, litigation consulting, and expert witness testimony in the areas of financial investigations, economic damages,…
Adam Rabinowitz, CPA, CFF, CVA, CFE
Practice Leader, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Miami
Adam co-leads Kaufman Rossin's Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services practice.
Adam is a forensic accounting professional with more than 15 years of experience in providing expert witness and litigation consulting services related to:
- economic damages,
- business val…
Kara Stearns Sharp, CPA, CFF, CFE, CVA
Practice Leader, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Miami
Kara Stearns Sharp co-leads Kaufman Rossin’s forensic, advisory and valuation services practice, where she brings clients more than 25 years of experience in the accounting industry. She specializes in investigative and forensic accounting, due diligence, and business advisory services.
She pr…
Robert A. Stone, CPA, ABV, CFF
Principal, Senior Client Services
Miami
For more than four decades, Robert A. Stone has helped wealthy clients and entrepreneurs manage complex problems and capitalize on opportunities. His practice is grounded in audit, accounting, and tax services. He counsels clients on estate and trust planning, and mergers and acquisitions.
When p…
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