Business Litigation Support Services
Accurate Information that Helps You Better Represent Your Client’s Interest When Dealing with Fraud
When it comes to business litigation, Sage Investigations is your best ally. With over 50 combined years of IRS Special Agent experience and 25 years of private sector investigative experience outside the Federal Government, our team has the experience and expertise necessary to efficiently and effectively follow the money in complex financial investigations.
With our specialization of forensic accounting and understanding of business functionality, we have the means to conduct financial investigations that provides you accurate information and litigation support to best represent your client’s interest when dealing with the following business issues and fraud:
- theft of intellectual property
- breaches of fiduciary duties
- deceptive trade practices
- shareholder derivative suits
- white collar crime such as theft and embezzlement
- construction contract fraud
- business fraud where absentee owners realize that profits have been stolen
- locating assets hidden to avoid the settlement of judgments
Through the development of our proprietary technology (DIO) we have the means to help you analyze complex financial data faster, which will allow you to serve more clients and increase your profitability.
We Will:
- Make your job easier by having accurate information at your fingertips
- Locate witnesses
- Assist by reviewing volumes of records to determine what is relevant to the case
- Help you obtain an extra edge by building a timeline that provides an accurate picture of meaningful evidence
- Testify as a forensic accounting expert witness in financial investigations and assist you in the cross examination of witnesses
- Assist you in determining if the defendant has assets beyond their homestead
Our Services:
Investigations
Sage provides thorough, factual, timely and efficient investigations for both plaintiff and defense attorneys to establish a winning case strategy.
Sage understands what it takes to investigate and help defend a client against Medicare Fraud allegations.
With our dual-specialization of forensic accounting and business acumen, we are uniquely equipped to conduct financial investigations that yield accurate information and litigation support to best represent your client’s interests when dealing with business fraud.
Benefits of Having Sage Investigations as an Investigator:
- Obtain accurate information faster
- Gain an extra advantage
- Save time and money
- Recover losses
- Strengthen your case
- Knowledge of the functionality of accounting systems and the business records necessary to prove a case
- Secure and organize records to be used by the plaintiff or the defense.
- Litigation support that helps to build a winning case
- A compelling presentation that paints the picture of the evidence
We Will:
- Secure, review and organize records provided by the client and obtained during discovery
- Apply forensic financial investigative knowledge and experience
- Identify additional witnesses and sources of evidence
- Prepare an accurate report and analysis for ease of presentation
- Help develop a compelling presentation that paints a picture of the evidence
- Assist you with preparation for cross examination of witnesses, and if necessary, we offer expert witness testimony
Discovery
Sage will help you identify the areas of fraud, accounting issues, and witnesses. Call us at 512-659-3179 when you need additional information.
We Will:
- Secure, review and organize records provided by the client and obtained during discovery
- Identify additional witnesses and sources of evidence
- Prepare analysis for accuracy and ease of presentation
- Help develop a timeline that provides an accurate picture of meaningful evidence
- Provide an inventory of documents that will allow you easy access to the evidence
- Report our findings either orally or in writing
- Help you obtain an extra edge
Asset Search
Sage will search for assets that are available for recovery of a judgment. Call us at 512-659-3179 when you need to know where the money went.
We Will:
- Employ systematic search techniques to locate leads to assets by reviewing client documents, discovery documents, and identify new area for research
- Identify new areas for research
- Identify witnesses and sources of evidence
- Prepare analysis of assets identified
- Help develop a timeline of activities
- Provide a list of viable assets for judgment recovery
Locate and Interview Witnesses
Sage will research and locate witnesses. We ask objective questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How Much to fully develop the testimony of the witness? Call us at 512-659-3179 when you need effective witness interviews.
We Will:
- Contact and interview witnesses and obtain important documentation to better understand the evidence available
- Render notes of an interview into a memorandum or statement
- Secure, review and organize records provided by the client and obtained during discovery
- Prepare analysis for accuracy and ease of presentation
- Build a timeline and witness and exhibit list that provides you an accurate picture, helps eliminate surprises and saves you time
- Deliver this information to our client in a timely manner
Testifying
We provide an expert witness report and expert testimony. We will assist the attorney with cross examination of witnesses and if necessary, testify as an expert witness. Call us at 512-659-3179 when you need an advantage.
We Will:
- Review, analyse and report on the information received in arbitration or trial
- Help summarize the evidence and present it in a courtroom
DIO Technology
Sage has a proprietary software database named DIO. DIO is an advanced technology that enables us to analyse complex financial data quickly, easily and efficiently. DIO technology aids in conducting the financial investigation of bank accounts, brokerage accounts, and credit card accounts and follows the money quickly, easily and efficiently. DIO creates MS Excel reports in a source and application format or in various indirect methods of reporting income. The speed and accuracy of DIO is above all the rest and will aid in reconciling returns to records, generate evidence based reports and allow you to make better decisions in less than half the time. Call us at 512-659-3179 when you need to save time and money.
DIO Is a Win-Win That Will Allow you to:
- Save time
- Enjoy larger profit per case
- Obtain more accurate information faster
Please call us at 512-659-3179 for a free consultation.