GHJ (GHJ) assists attorneys, including outside/inside counsel, business leaders and business owners, with a wide range of litigation support services. The firm provides financial insight and clarity during all stages of a business dispute, from pre-litigation services case development and discovery to expert witness testimony and conflict resolution. The below case st [...]

Originally published in Boss Magazine A popular television show auditions talented singers but the judges can’t see them. The focus is on finding people with the best voices. When the judges eventually turn around to see the contestants, they are sometimes surprised. Similarly, businesses might see a resume and then be surprised by a number of factors when the candid [...]

Following the settlement of nearly four-year long litigation over 21st Century Fox’s long-running series Bones, GHJ Entertainment Partner Ilan Haimoff talks with Chad Fitzgerald of Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump and Aldisert and John Berlinski of Kasowitz Benson Torres on the landmark case. Get an insight into the case from the legal team. Click here to listen.

The cover story of a recent issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, “Everything is Private Equity Now,” caught my eye. I do see some truth in this seemingly exaggerated title. Over the last 10 years, I have witnessed most large private foundations I work with either venturing into private equity or gradually increasing their asset allocation to private equity. This article t [...]

As most who will read this know, the life of a CPA is very busy. Long hours, tight project timelines and competing priorities make it easy to let certain things fall to the wayside. Add having a family and LA traffic, and we all tend to stop doing certain things we enjoyed in our youth. For me the thing that I sacrificed for most of the past 10 years has been exercise [...]

Grants and contributions – rather than earned income from contracts with customers – make up the majority of income for many nonprofit organizations, so it is not surprising that the new clarifying standard for contributions received and made will have a wide-ranging impact. This blog is the second part of our blog series covering the implementation considerations of [...]

Originally published in Small Business Today Talent and client expectations in the workforce are changing significantly. Millennials continue to make up a majority of the workforce and their need for work-life balance is driving innovation and influencing the future of the industry. In fact, an article by ADP shows that work-life integration is changing the workplace [...]

Originally published in Philanthropy Journal News Many nonprofits serve diverse communities, and it makes sense for their staff to be a reflection of community they serve. However, in a study that interviewed over 200 nonprofit CEOs conducted by The Center for Effective Philanthropy, 70 percent of CEOs stated that it was important to have staff diversity, but just 36 [...]

The evolution of the traditional workforce has made a significant impact on how GHJ (GHJ) finds and retains top talent. With this evolving workforce, GHJ had two options: 1) resist and risk losing great talent or 2) lean into and embrace the changes. GHJ chose to embrace those changes, and the first step was to collaborate with The Mom Project. The Mom Project is rew [...]

The third blog in our series of consulting case studies takes a look at an unusual situation for four businesses going to market as one company and discusses how GHJ’ Consulting Team assisted in converting their financial statements to reflect as if they had operated as one. Recent work with this client involved: Assembling one set of financial statements from four d [...]