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As
a trained litigator, Gil Fried provides GFA with a wealth of
experience to help structure a prudent litigation strategy.
These strategies have provided significant assistant to both
plaintiff and defense counsels. Fried works with both
plaintiff and defense related matters. In addition to
traditional expert witness assistance including deposition and
trial testimony, Fried has worked on numerous fronts such as
developing discovery requests, helping find expert witnesses,
evaluating of claims before a complaint is filed, and serving as
an arbitrator or mediator to help resolve a dispute.
GFA
provides several unique services to help resolve disputes:
GFA
offers a free expert witness identification service. If GFA
cannot handle a client’s case with our group of industry
experts, we will try to find other potential experts, at no cost
to the client for our search. (It is the client’s
responsibility to negotiate the rate and terms with the identified
expert.)
GFA
also has worked with The Center For Sports Law and Risk
Management to offer the Athletic Dispute Resolution Service (ADRS).
The ADRS is a neutral body composed of various sport law
specialists who are available to arbitrate and mediate sport law
cases pursuant to specified arbitration or mediation rules.
This
service and information about the service will be sent to anyone
on requesting.
A
special focus of GFA’s services entails developing appropriate
challenges to opposing expert witnesses. Numerous asserted
standards can be attacked with appropriate information. We
work diligently to help our clients find angles that provide
the ability to effectively attack opposing experts’ testimony.
Fees
and Rates
GFA
charges $200 per hour for all research, writing, and travel time.
Solution
analysis projects and risk management projects are bid and billed
based on the project’s scope.
GFA
charges $250 per hour for deposition and trial testimony.
GFA
can be retained at a daily rate.
This rate is $1,200 per day for non-profit organizations
and $1,500 for all other clients (excluding trial work or
depositions) plus expenses.
If an executive report takes longer than the eight (8) hour
day to complete, each additional hour will be billed at $100.00 per
hour.
These rates represent an almost 30% discount for
non-profits and an over 10% discount for all other clients.
Clients
wishing to retain GFA on a full-time basis can purchase our
one-year plan.
For a yearly fee of $2,000 a client receives 15 hours a
year of potential service (a $625 savings) for research,
surveying, writing, or investigation.
Any hours over 15 hours are billed at $125 per hour
(excluding trial work or depositions).
Any unused hours are extinguished at the end of the 12
month period from the contract execution date if not utilized.
However, if a client renews their one year contract the
hours are carried over to the next year.
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