BVR Legal/Mealey's Conferences October 22, 2008 Conference

Compelling Statistical Evidence: Mining, Modeling, and Presenting Quantitative Financial Evidence to Juries
Presented by BVR Legal/Mealey's Conferences

Featuring Dr. G. William Kennedy, Ph.D., CPA/ABV of Anders Minkler & Diehl LLP and Jeffrey L. Dorman, Esq., Partner, or Freeborn & Peters LLP
Telephone Dial-In Audio Conference
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
10:00am-11:40am PT / 11:00am-12:40pm MT / 12:00pm-1:40pm CT / 1:00pm-2:40pm ET
Earn 2 CPE credits or 1.5 CLE credits for participating in this conference

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Agenda & Learning Objectives (Eastern Time):

1:00pm
Compelling Statistical Evidence: Mining, Modeling & Presenting Quantitative Financial Evidence to Juries

  • Use of statistics and simulations models to create damage estimates
  • Use of statistical analysis and sampling techniques in class action cases to establish or oppose class certification and to estimate injury on a class-wide basis
  • Use of event studies to demonstrate liability and estimate damages in securities fraud litigation
  • Use of statistical techniques to prove, or disprove, liability issues
  • Use of statistical expert to criticize the work of the opposing expert
  • Best practices in working with your expert

2:30pm
Q & A

2:45pm
Adjourn



Panelist Include:

Jeffrey Dorman, J.D.

Jeffrey Dorman is a partner in the Litigation practice group and his areas of focus include: Antitrust and Trade Regulation and Complex Disputes.

Mr. Dorman joined the firm after having been a partner with Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal in Chicago and an attorney with the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. Mr. Dorman has over 30 years of experience in complex litigation, with primary emphasis in antitrust litigation, government contract litigation, state and local tax controversy matters, and litigation involving the use of statistical estimation, mathematical modeling, parametric
estimating, system dynamics programming, and financial analysis. Mr. Dorman has represented clients in the Defense and Health Care industries in connection with litigation under the Federal False Claims Act.

In addition, Mr. Dorman has extensive experience counseling corporations on antitrust matters, including the development of a cost accounting system for a national food processor to determine whether proposed pricing changes comply with predatory pricing tests developed in the various circuits.

Mr. Dorman's publications include: "Foundations of Quantitative Evidence" (book in progress discussing statistical techniques in the development
of quantitative evidence and cross examination issues in dealing with opposing quantitative expertreports; completion date August 2007); "The Role of Regression Analysis in Class Certification Decisions in Antitrust Cases", ISBA Antitrust & Unfair Competition Law Section (accepted for publication in Spring, 2007); "Federal Jurisdiction Over International Antitrust Matters", ISBA Antitrust & Unfair Competition Law Section (2005). (Co-authored with Brian Norton); "Calculation of Damages in Transnational Antitrust Case", 14 Loyola Consumer Review 559 (2001); "Illinois Tax Agency Clarifies Unitary Business Issues Left Open After Allied Signal", 9 Journal of Multistate Taxation and Incentives 9 (1999); "State Action Immunity - A Problem Under Cantor v. Detroit Edison", 27 Case Western Reserve Law Review 503 (1977); "Transfers of Liabilities to Controlled Corporations", 1976 Wisconsin Law Review 1016.

Dr. G. William Kennedy

Dr. G. William Kennedy is a partner and co-director of the Anders Minkler & Diehl LLP Forensic and Valuation Services Group located in St. Louis, Missouri.

He is a nationally-recognized consultant, speaker and experienced expert witness. Dr. Kennedy’s specialties include intellectual property valuations; statistics and econometric analysis; option pricing and option valuation; economic damages and lost profits; event studies and security fraud economic damages calculations; fair value financial reporting; and accounting professional liability.

He was inducted into the AICPA Business Valuation Hall of Fame in 2003. He is a member and former chairman of the AICPA ABV Examination Committee, a member of newly formed AICPA M&A Dispute Resolution Taskforce, and a former member of the AICPA Business Valuation Committee.

Dr. Kennedy serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the AICPA’s Journal of Accountancy, the primary technical publication of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is also on the Editorial Review Board of the ASA’s Business Valuation Review, recognized as one of the leading scholarly professional journals in the business valuation field.

Dr. Kennedy earned his Ph.D. in Finance from Saint Louis University, his Master of Accounting Science as well as his Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from the University of Illinois. He is a certified public accountant who was awarded the ABV (Accredited in Business Valuation) designation by the AICPA.




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