Lorraine Barrick has been providing financial, accounting and economic consulting services for more than twenty years. Lorraine’s practice includes:
- Asset tracing
- Business and intangible asset valuation
- Cost auditing
- Determination of lost profits, business interruption claims and other economic damages
- Financial modeling and forecasting
- Financial fraud investigation; fraudulent accounting and embezzlement
- Process mapping and financial controls review
- Quantitative and economic analysis
Lorraine’s work is used in tax planning, business planning and acquisition, marital dissolutions, and a wide variety of dispute resolution settings. Lorraine has testified as an expert in various courts. Lorraine’s dispute-related work has been used in:
- Antitrust
- Bankruptcy
- Breach of contract claims
- Business interruption claims
- Class action claims and class settlement administration
- Employee and other financial fraud investigations
- Environmental claims
- Family business/inheritance and estate tax matters
- Insurance matters
- Intellectual property disputes
- Marital dissolution
- Post-acquisition disputes
- Purchase price allocation
- Regulatory hearings
- Securities litigation
- Wrongful death
Lorraine is a Certified Public Accountant, is both an Accredited Business Valuer in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and an Accredited Senior Appraiser in the American Society of Appraisers, and is a Certified Fraud Examiner.
Lorraine is the current treasurer of the Seattle chapter of the American Society of Appraisers and is a member of the Business Valuation/Litigation Services Committee of the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants. She teaches at various events for the King County Bar Association, the Seminar Group, and at other venues.