Seminars & CLE
Gain Practical Insights and Earn CLE Credits
Led by industry leaders with decades of experience, Economatrix offers CLE accredited seminars independently or in conjunction with CLE organizations.
Dr. Gaughan offers several comprehensive seminars on Mergers and Acquisitions, Commercial Damages, Measuring Lost Profits and Measuring Lost Earnings and Benefits. These sessions provide practical knowledge and networking opportunities to elevate your legal practice.
Why Attend Our CLE Seminars?
LITIGATION RELATED SEMINARS
Enhance your defense strategies with expert-led sessions.
These litigation-related seminars are offered independently by Economatrix Research Associates, Inc. or with CLE organizations. In the latter format, various experienced litigators serve on the panel and discuss issues such as relevant case law and courtroom strategies.
1. MEASURING COMMERCIAL DAMAGES
Reviews the proper methods that should be used to value commercial damages. The program is usually presented by the in-house staff of Economatrix Research Associates, Inc., including Dr. Patrick Gaughan and Professor Henry Fuentes. Dr. Gaughan outlines the proper methods of measuring damages, while Professor Fuentes covers the relevant accounting issues that are important to commercial damages analysis. The program utilizes Dr. Gaughan’s book, Measuring Business Interruptions and Other Commercial Damages, 3e (Wiley) as a text.
2. MEASURING DAMAGES IN PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION
Reviews the proper methods for valuing economic damages in personal injury litigation. It covers the proper methodology in the field and how such damages may be presented in court. In addition, the seminar covers how some experts sometimes exaggerate or inaccurately present such damages.
MERGERS-RELATED SEMINARS
Stay ahead with insights on mergers and acquisitions
Dr. Gaughan offers several comprehensive seminars on mergers and acquisitions. These seminars may enable corporate clients to benefit from Dr. Gaughan’s knowledge and experience in this field. Dr. Gaughan has taught mergers and acquisitions at the graduate level for over 20 years and has authored two of the three textbooks in this field. The seminars utilize Dr. Gaughan’s book Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructurings, 5th edition (John Wiley & Sons, 2010) as a text.
1. Current State of Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring
This program reviews the current state of mergers and acquisitions, including recent trends in the domestic and international markets. These trends include merger strategy and financing, as well as corporate restructuring.
2. Merger Strategy
This program reviews the main merger strategies and how firms may benefit from pursuing them. It also highlights the potential pitfalls inherent in certain strategies so that clients can be forewarned and take sufficient steps to minimize potential losses.
3. Reasons Why Some Mergers Succeed and Others Fail
Drawing upon the firm’s research in this area, this program reviews the main factors that may cause some mergers to fail. These include pursuing faulty merger strategies, inadequate due diligence, poor post-merger integration, etc. In the program, these factors are initially explored but are also presented using a case study approach in which prominent examples of such failures are used. In addition, the reasons why some mergers have succeeded are also highlighted so that attendees can benefit from what some companies did right while trying to avoid the merger pitfalls.