An employment damages engagement moves through 5 steps, from the conflict check to testimony. Each step ends in something counsel can review, and the typical timeline shows how long each phase runs.
Engagement process
Retention and conflict check: We confirm conflicts, identify the claims and the damages periods at issue, establish the retainer, and set the deadline.
Records and data request: We request personnel and payroll records, compensation and benefit plan documents, comparator pay data where relevant, and the claimant's post-separation earnings and job search records.
Analysis and modeling: We reconstruct the but-for compensation path, measure interim earnings, evaluate mitigation, bound the front pay period, value lost benefits, and discount future amounts to present value.
Draft report and counsel review: We deliver a draft that separates back pay, front pay, and benefits and states each assumption, then review it with counsel before finalizing.
Final report and testimony support: We issue the final report and provide deposition and trial testimony, rebuttal of opposing damages opinions, and updated calculations as the trial date moves.