Annual Economic Damages Case Law Update

Chelsea Priest focuses her practice on commercial litigation and disputes, and has experience with intellectual property. Chelsea has a particular interest in critical motions briefing and appeals. She has briefed and argued motions to dismiss and motions for summary judgment in numerous trial-level courts. Additionally, Chelsea has written appellate briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Texas Supreme Court, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 2nd, 5th, 9th, and D.C. Circuits, and presented oral argument in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. She was recognized by Best Lawyers as “One to Watch” for both 2022 and 2023.

Tammy Thomas is a Director with Marcum. Her practice is focused on forensic accounting and litigation services. Ms. Thomas has been involved in many engagements involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, accounting malpractice, franchise agreements, shareholder agreements, purchase price adjustments, fraud and intellectual property damages. She has been retained as the expert witness by plaintiffs and defendants in breach of contract disputes and has testified in depositions, at trial in court, and in arbitration.

Jill Dunn is a Partner in Freeman Mathis & Gary’s LLP’s Atlanta office and is co-chair of the Firm’s Commercial Litigation/Directors & Officers National Practice Section. Ms. Dunn focuses her practice on representing clients in commercial matters, including numerous complex disputes involving class action defense, investor derivative claims, securities fraud, qui tam claims, whistleblower investigations and defense, franchisor/franchisee and dealer negotiations and disputes, fraud/misrepresentation, trade secret misappropriation, restrictive covenant enforcement and defense, computer fraud and theft and landlord/tenant disputes. Ms. Dunn has experience representing healthcare organizations in matters involving fiduciary obligations, compliance, and contract-based disputes. Ms. Dunn also has experience handling defamation and disparagement claims. In addition, Ms. Dunn focuses on professional liability defense involving accountants, attorneys, architects/engineers, and medical professionals.

Sacha Zadmehran is a Principal in the San Francisco office of Hemming Morse, LLP, Certified Public Accountants, Forensic and Financial Consultants. Mr. Zadmehran is a CFA charterholder and a member of CFA Institute. Mr. Zadmehran is a CPA licensed in the State of California. He is also Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), of which he is a member. Mr. Zadmehran is also a member of the California Society of CPAs (CalCPA).

Alexander Walther has over 12 years of professional services experience related to complex contract disputes, economic damages, bankruptcy adversarial proceedings, valuation disputes, and purchase price disputes, as well as investigations of alleged financial irregularities. Mr. Walther specializes in working on complex litigation, forensic, and valuation services assignments nationally and internationally for businesses ranging from startup entities to Fortune 100 companies.

Jeffrey Press is a Director in the Disputes, Compliance, & Investigations group at Stout. He has nearly 17 years of experience providing forensic accounting services, including expert testimony in the areas of calculating and testifying to damages in intellectual property and other complex commercial disputes. Jeffrey focuses on the quantification of economic damages in civil litigation, as well as forensic accounting investigations. His forensic accounting matters have encompassed a wide array of matters involving economic damages in intellectual property infringements and misappropriations (patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret), complex commercial disputes, including healthcare billing disputes, employment disputes, breach of contract matters, and shareholder disputes, and investigations of financial fraud.

Ted advises boards of directors, executives, attorneys, and regulators on complex, high-impact accounting, transactional, investigations, and dispute-related matters across numerous US-based and international forums. Ted supports public and private clients with merger and acquisition activity both before and after closing. He has led financial due diligence engagements, been retained as an expert in post-closing arbitrations, and routinely supports clients in their resolutions of merger and acquisition-related disputes, including as an independent accountant.