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Litigation Support and Forensic Accounting
Helping you serve your clients through innovative products and services
Dean, Dorton & Ford's law firm services team is
a group of professionals specially trained to meet the
unique business needs of lawyers and their clients.
Our team can perform a comprehensive range of consulting
and financial services to help your case, your clients,
and your firm's operations. Our goal is to develop a
long-term relationship with you that will benefit your
firm for many years to come. Some of the services we
offer include:
- Bankruptcy Accounting Services
- Expert Testimony & Consulting
- Business Valuation
- Forensic Accounting
- Merger & Acquisition
- Practice Management Consulting
Services for Law Firm Clients
Dean, Dorton & Ford has a group of professionals
dedicated to providing timely, high-quality service
assistance to attorneys on their client-related work.
Specifically, we focus on the following.
Bankruptcy Services
The bankruptcy process requires
specific accounting knowledge and familiarity with the
legal process and requirements. We have experience with
claims reconciliation and processing, preference calculations,
preparation of Bankruptcy Court reports, and Debtor
liquidation. We have also performed forensic accounting
on prepetition data.
Expert Testimony/Litigation Consulting
Several members
of the firm provide expert testimony and other support
services in conjunction with dispute resolution.
Business Valuation
We have a team of professionals
trained in preparing business valuations in a variety
of forums, e.g., divorce, business acquisition or sale,
litigation, estate planning, and estate and gift tax
reporting.
Forensic Accounting
A team of audit professionals
provides forensic accounting services in conjunction
with fraud investigations. Our team includes one Certified
Fraud Examiner.
Merger and Acquisition
We perform due diligence services
in conjunction with business mergers or acquisitions.
Technology Services for the
Law Firm
DDF has a separate department devoted entirely to assisting
our clients with their technology issues. We have successfully
implemented new, cutting-edge software for law firms
which help automate time and billing, case management,
and accounting.
New System Consulting/Implementation
The real return
on investment regarding an information system is not
related to the input of information, but the ability
to retrieve meaningful and timely information from the
system.
Data Extraction / Data Warehousing
We can build a
database that links to your current system that will
provide real-time information in the format(s) management
needs to make the tough decisions.
Information Technology Outsourcing
Lower your costs
to maintain your current technology by outsourcing your
IT position.
Traditional Services for the
Law Firm
Because our professionals have such a wide range of
experience, we are able to offer a vast array of services
to law firms, including:
- Financial Statement audit, review, and compilation
services to offer assurance to various stakeholders.
- Agreed-upon procedures attestation to address specific
areas of your organization.
- New accounting standards implementation to ensure compliance
with the latest in accounting standards.
- Preparing financial budgets and projections to improve
control of cash flow and expenditures and to increase procedure
accuracy of projections.
- Internal controls and accounting procedures manual
reviews to safeguard assets and manage risk by implementing
strategically placed checks, balances, and reviews.
- Directly performing accounting, payroll or clerical
functions to lower costs by outsourcing financial or
administrative activities.
- Timely and accurate tax return preparation and filing to all taxing entities.
- Tax planning to help make decisions now that can
minimize your tax expenses later.
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