Market Consulting Corporation
Securities Mediation Expert Witness Support in California
Expert consulting for mediation and settlement evaluation in securities, futures, options, trust, brokerage, and investment-loss disputes.
Expert witness assistance
Mediation requires clear issue framing, reliable damages work, and a practical understanding of the strengths and weaknesses shown by the record. MCC assists counsel and parties by reviewing documents, identifying the key industry-practice issues, testing damages theories, and preparing analysis that can support informed settlement discussions. The role is not advocacy detached from the facts; it is disciplined expert assistance tied to the record.
Engagement focus
- Initial case review focused on the factual record, the questions presented, and the likely scope of expert analysis.
- Issue analysis addressing securities, futures, options, trust, portfolio-management, compliance, or industry-practice questions as applicable.
- Damages or loss analysis when the facts and engagement require quantification.
- Assistance with document requests, deposition preparation, mediation preparation, expert reports, rebuttal analysis, and testimony as appropriate.
Early case assessment
The record can be reviewed to identify the central issues, missing documents, strengths, weaknesses, and questions requiring further development.
Damages and exposure
Loss calculations, trading costs, alternative scenarios, market movement, and settlement ranges may be evaluated where appropriate.
Mediation preparation
Expert assistance may include issue summaries, demonstrative schedules, response to opposing analyses, and preparation for mediation discussions.
Issues commonly reviewed
- Suitability, supervision, churning, unauthorized trading, margin, options, futures, selling away, or fiduciary-duty issues.
- Documents needed to test liability, causation, damages, and defenses.
- Damages methodology, assumptions, sensitivity analysis, and settlement alternatives.
- Factual chronology and evidentiary gaps affecting mediation posture.
- Expert-report risk, testimony risk, and likely areas of opposing expert challenge.
- Potential settlement structure, timing, and information needed before resolution.
Records commonly requested
- Pleadings, statement of claim, answer, counterclaims, and amended claims.
- New account documents, customer profiles, investment objectives, risk-tolerance records, and account updates.
- Monthly statements, trade confirmations, order tickets, margin records, and cash-flow records.
- Correspondence, emails, recorded calls, notes, exception reports, and supervisory reviews.
- Product materials, offering documents, risk disclosures, prospectuses, research, and internal sales materials.
- Prior settlement discussions, mediation statements, expert disclosures, and damages calculations, when available.
Dr. Ronald W. Cornew and Market Consulting Corporation
The dispute resolution and financial consulting efforts of Market Consulting Corporation are under the direction of Dr. Ronald W. Cornew, President and Senior Consultant. Dr. Cornew personally supervises MCC case work and, when appropriate, draws on a network of industry specialists for very large or complex matters.
Case review
Request expert witness consultation
Provide the forum, parties represented, principal allegations, relevant account or transaction records, and any current deadlines. Additional documents can be exchanged after conflicts and scope are addressed.