KAFF Analytics

Integrated Economic and Financial Analysis
for the Legal Profession

KAFF Analytics delivers: Clear, straight-forward, responsive and adaptable consultation, strategies, analyses, recommendations, reports, depositions and testimony; Economic, labor market and financial assessments, estimates, projections, valuations and comparability studies for more effective decisions.

Forensic Labor Market Economic Analysis

• Wrongful Death / Termination
• Economic Loss / Personal Injury / Diminished Earning Capacity
• Labor Market Analysis / Front & Back Pay Assessment
• Vocational Opinion / Employability Analysis
• Life Care Plans

Financial Analysis

• Forensic Investigation
• Business Valuation
• Lost Profit Analysis
• Structured Settlements
• Damages Assessment
• Pension Valuation

Supporting Attorneys in the following areas

• Initial Forensic Assessment with Recommendations
• Labor and Employment Practices
• Product Liability
• Medical Malpractice
• Domestic Relations and Divorce
• Succession and Estate Planning
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Commercial Damages / Fraud
• Purchases and Sales

Integrated Economic and Financial analysis because …

KAFF Analytics integrates experienced Ph.D. Economists, Certified Public Accountants, Certified Valuation Analysts, and Human Resources and Business Operations professionals. This formal integration adds insight and credibility to our forensic economic and financial services. This formal integration offers the unique, measurable value that is KAFF Analytics.

What does KAFF Analytics do?

We provide economic and financial analysis for attorneys, supporting all aspects of litigation from forensic investigation, pretrial discovery and strategy development through economic and financial modeling and evaluation of opposing expert reports and deposi­tions to formal report preparation and testimony. We support attorneys and their business clients with integrated analysis and experienced interpretation of economic and financial data affecting them: market, operations, human resource, logistical and safety / security analyses; cost effectiveness and pricing analyses; business and asset valuation; mergers and acquisitions; financial planning; tax issues.

What are KAFF Analytics’ qualifications?

KAFF’s Analytics principal and lead forensic economist is Mark Erenburg. Mark earned a B.A. in Economics at the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Labor Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969. He has provided forensic economic and consulting services to attorneys in Illinois and Ohio since 1976, working on cases of wrongful termination, wrongful death, diminished earning capacity, product liability, medical malpractice, pension valuation and damages assessment. Over the years, his work has been approximately 60% defense and 40% plaintiff. He is joined by equally experienced professionals from KAFF Partners, our parent organization and from regional accounting firms in Northeast Ohio. Our combined experience includes forensic economics, forensic accounting, financial and budget analysis, human resources, operations, logistics and workplace safety and risk management.

Why are KAFF Analytics’ services unique?

Our services provide extra value to the legal profession because we offer more than just expert reports and testimony. As collaborating professionals, we effectively integrate economic, accounting, financial, human resources, operational and safety perspectives to deliver more insightful, authoritative, understandable and useful analysis and advice. Our superior work products add measurable value to the support provided by KAFF Analytics to the legal profession and their clients. Whether supporting defense or plaintiff efforts, and always within the strict limits of professional conduct, KAFF Analytics focuses on our clients’ goal … to provide the best possible representation and to prevail.