Market Consulting Corporation
Investment Dispute Settlement Support in Durham County, North Carolina
Expert consulting for settlement evaluation in securities, futures, options, brokerage, trust, and investment-loss disputes.
Expert witness assistance
Settlement analysis should be grounded in the same record discipline expected of expert testimony. MCC assists by evaluating account documents, trading history, liability-related facts, damages theories, causation issues, and the strengths and weaknesses likely to affect negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or trial posture. The goal is to provide informed expert assistance without overstating 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.
Issue framing
The analysis can identify the core issues, evidentiary gaps, technical questions, and areas where further documents may materially affect settlement posture.
Damages testing
Claimed losses, trading costs, market movement, alternative calculations, and sensitivity points may be reviewed.
Mediation and negotiation support
Expert input may support mediation statements, settlement discussions, rebuttal of opposing figures, and preparation for likely questions.
Issues commonly reviewed
- Forum posture, claims, defenses, deadlines, and procedural stage.
- Key liability issues such as suitability, supervision, control, disclosure, unauthorized trading, margin, or product risk.
- Damages theory, loss causation, alternative calculations, market movement, and mitigation.
- Strengths, weaknesses, missing documents, and factual disputes.
- Expert-report risk, testimony risk, and areas likely to be challenged.
- Settlement range considerations based on documents and analytical assumptions.
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.