Litigation
support

Do you need expert witness testimony
about financial or organizational documents?

Does your client require expert witnesses with specialized financial expertise?

If your case involves a thorough review of financial and organizational documents by someone with financial or accounting expertise, AGH can help.

See how our litigation support can help your case.
Contact us to learn more.

Litigation support

Consider who benefits

Attorneys whose clients require expert witnesses with specialized financial or accounting expertise to support their court case. Litigation support has been provided for cases involving:

  • Bankruptcy
  • Business interruption
  • Business valuation
  • Criminal fraud
  • Damage calculations
  • Divorce
  • Lost profits
  • Shareholder disputes
  • Specific accounting, auditing or tax issues
Consider the benefits

Third-party independent forensic financial expertise brings credibility and objectivity to financial issues in the case

Financial research and reporting translates specialized financial data into understandable and possibly actionable court information

How AGH's litigation support can help your client

Based on the case and the type of information sought, a typical litigation support engagement requires a review of related financial and organizational documents, determination and applicability of pertinent regulations and generally accepted accounting practices, and a report on the findings. Expert witness testimony may be required in some cases.

We can help you make the best case for accounting and financial arguments.
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Cathy Mitchell, ABV

Senior Vice President
Business Valuation Services

Cathy Mitchell joined AGH in 2010. Her focus is providing valuation and tax services primarily to closely held and family-owned businesses. Related to her valuation work, Cathy has completed extensive training in the specialized field of business valuation and earned the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) accreditation in business valuation (ABV) credential. In addition to providing valuations for many purposes, she provides litigation support services for those integral to divorces and other contested matters.

Prior to joining AGH, Cathy was a member of an international CPA firm, where she was promoted to tax manager. Following that, she established and managed her own tax preparation and business consulting firm for 14 years. She received her bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Kansas and earned gold key for top scorer in Kansas and the Elijah Watts Sells award for earning one of the top scores nationwide on the CPA exam. Cathy is a member of both the AICPA and the Kansas Society of Certified Public Accountants, for which she serves on the steering committee for its annual business valuation conference. She also speaks regularly on business valuation and other topics to professional groups and students.