Market Consulting Corporation
Unauthorized Trading Expert Witness Support in Gordo (35466), Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Expert analysis of trade authorization, discretionary authority, customer instructions, confirmations, account control, ratification, and damages.
Expert witness assistance
Unauthorized-trading disputes require detailed review of who had authority to trade, what instructions were given, how trades were confirmed, whether objections were made, and how account activity developed over time. MCC assists by reconstructing the trading record and evaluating the documents, communications, account agreements, and supervision records relevant to authorization and damages. The analysis is fact-specific and does not assume authorization or lack of authorization before review.
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.
Authorization record
Account agreements, discretionary authority forms, powers of attorney, emails, call notes, confirmations, and objections may be reviewed.
Trading chronology
Trades, confirmations, statements, communications, deposits, withdrawals, and account changes can be organized by date.
Control and damages
Account control, ratification, customer knowledge, broker conduct, losses, trading costs, and market movement may be evaluated.
Issues commonly reviewed
- Discretionary authority, written authorization, oral instructions, account control, and power of attorney.
- Trade confirmations, monthly statements, customer objections, delay in objection, and alleged ratification.
- Broker notes, emails, recorded calls, order tickets, and account servicing records.
- Suitability, churning, margin, options, concentration, and supervision issues linked to the disputed trades.
- Causation, damages, market movement, and trading-cost analysis.
- Firm response to complaints, exception reports, and supervisory review.
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.