Expert Witness Services in Support of Litigation, Claims, or Other Formal Cases Relating to Management Consulting Sample Clauses

Expert Witness Services in Support of Litigation, Claims, or Other Formal Cases Relating to Management Consulting. Representatives of MAXIMUS frequently act as advocates for our clients or subject matter experts on federal requirements. This includes participating in administrative hearings, providing expert witness testimony, and defending our clients if challenged by a state or federal audit. For example, staff have been called to testify on Title IV-E administrative hearings in Indiana regarding eligibility for adoption assistance and on claims or litigation related to cost allocation projects. In addition, our experts defend a locality’s or agency’s OMB CAP if challenged by federal or State representatives upon notice of audit for a specified period of time (i.e., typically between three and five years) after delivery of our work products. MAXIMUS provides audit assistance to the State and can make changes to the work product as required as a result of an audit. In the event of negotiations or an audit, we review the correspondence between the negotiating agency and the State or locality to understand the issues and concerns, forming the basis for our subsequent research and appeal arguments. We review current OMB regulations and guidelines specific to the expressed concerns being negotiated to understand the issues raised and to identify appropriate responses to those issues for the negotiations. In concert with our research on applicable regulations, we also research appeals case history to identify situations that are similar to the issue at hand, identifying precedents that may be appropriate to the negotiation. Based on our analysis, we develop a strategy for approaching negotiations, identifying our logic, appropriate guidance, and associated precedence. We prepare language for inclusion in the response to the auditing entity during negotiation that defines our position regarding the claimed costs. Finally, we provide functional and technical expertise, as required, throughout the process.
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Expert Witness Services in Support of Litigation, Claims, or Other Formal Cases Relating to Management Consulting. FE staff have developed agency testimony before legislature and provided strategic guidance on messaging. They have also provided pretrial support and served as expert witnesses. Because of our work in hundreds of projects, our staff has very high credibility during litigation, claims, and other formal cases. Our consultants and principals have appeared before the U.S. Congress, governors, legislatures, and other elected officials to provide expert testimony. We are particularly sensitive to the intricacies of presenting technical issues to legislative bodies. Only through such diverse experience can a consulting firm develop the sophistication necessary to combine economic and technical issues into a politically palatable form. With this array of experience, FE will offer expert witness services in support of litigation, claims, or other formal cases relating to our areas of Management Consulting specialization. FE Representative Projects—Expert Witness • State of New York Independent Verification & Validation and Expert Testimony to State Legislature regarding the Statewide Interoperable Network (SWIN) • Black and Xxxxxx Technical/Expert Testimony Regarding Product Litigation • Xxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx, LLP Expert Testimony Regarding Satellite Communications Litigation and Claims
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Expert Witness Services in Support of Litigation, Claims, or Other Formal Cases Relating to Management Consulting. Our approach to providing expert witness services in support of litigation, claims, or other formal cases relating to management consulting help ensure organizations have the independent, credible expertise to support and defend their cause. We provide resources that are qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education. To support scientific evidence, we attempt to meet the “Xxxxxxx factors” and Federal Rule of Evidence 702 for admissibility of expert witness testimony. We will provide resources that reduce risk of being determined inadmissible by the rules of evidence and by having experts provide affidavits and testimony deemed helpful and not beyond the bounds of their expertise. In delivering expert witness services, we focus on using the following techniques: § Objectivity – we provide honest, unbiased opinions stemming from expert knowledge, experience and evidence given to them for review. § Effective Communication – we clearly articulate our knowledge in a calm and poised demeanor when delivering testimony. § Confidence – we exhibit sureness in our professional findings and communicate this confidence during testimony and cross-examination. § Simplify – we have the ability to breakdown complex processes or findings into plain language and this comes from our background bridging business and technical groups to arrive at a mutual understanding. Staffing for an expert witness depends on the specialized needs. We provide consultants with deep business or technical knowledge, extensive experience, or education in the specialized field. A consultant serving as an expert witness could be from anywhere in North Highland having the specialized knowledge required for the field of study. North Highland draws from a strong local base of 65 resources with deep State of Florida and agency-specific knowledge, including 4 local consultants with expert witness experience and a significant number of resources nationally with the skills and specialized knowledge to draw from who are qualified for serving as an expert witness. The nature of the field requiring an expert witness will dictate the knowledge needed to support the litigation, claim, or other formal cases related to management consulting. One example where we have provided this service to the State is when we conducted a study of employee turnover at Florida facilities serving persons with disabilities that looked specifically at the response of administrators to staff turnove...
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