Thomas M. Neches, CPA
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Thomas Neches, managing partner of Thomas Neches & Company LLP, provides accounting, financial, business valuation and statistical analyses to assist attorneys involved in litigation. Mr. Neches has testified as an expert in state and federal courts in California, Nevada and Oregon. He is a Certified Public Accountant, Accredited in Business Valuation, a Certified Valuation Analyst and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He received his BA in Mathematics and Literature from UC San Diego and his MS in Operations Research from UCLA. Mr. Neches has testified to juries on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants in antitrust, breach of contract, fraud, intellectual property, lender liability, personal injury and wrongful termination cases. Examples of the litigation issues he has addressed include lost profits, lost business value, determining a reasonable royalty and piercing the corporate veil. Representative industries include banking, entertainment, insurance, manufacturing, retail, securities and wholesale. Mr. Neches specializes in applying computer database and statistical techniques to assemble and analyze voluminous and complex data. Mr. Neches has over twenty-five years of professional experience. During the past eighteen years he has provided litigation services exclusively. Prior to forming Thomas Neches & Company in January 2000, he was Senior Partner of Simpson & Company, a firm of certified public accountants specializing in litigation services. Previously, he was a partner at Coopers & Lybrand (now known as PricewaterhouseCoopers) in its litigation services practice in Los Angeles. Prior to joining Coopers & Lybrand he was a manager in the management consulting group of Arthur Young & Company (now known as Ernst & Young), where he specialized in operations improvement, systems analysis and litigation consulting. Before that he was head of the technical staff at The Assessment Group, a consulting firm that conducted economic and cost analysis for the U.S. Navy. Mr. Neches has acted as a Judicial Arbitrator of the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles. Mr. Neches currently is an
Adjunct Professor at Loyola Law School.
He has been an instructor in numerous regional and local courses on
litigation services. Among other
publications he has authored, Mr. Neches the co-author of "Use of Expert
Witnesses" in Prosecuting and
Defending Insurance Claims (John Wiley & Sons, 1989). Mr. Neches is a member of the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants, the California Society of Certified Public
Accountants, the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts, the
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the American Statistical
Association and the American Bar Association.
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