Cornerstone Research is a financial, economic, and litigation consulting firm based in the United States

United States

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. It provides expert testimony

Expert witness

An expert witness, professional witness or judicial expert is a witness, who by virtue of education, training, skill, or experience, is believed to have expertise and specialised knowledge in a particular subject beyond that of the average person, sufficient that others may officially and legally...

 and economic and financial analysis to attorneys, corporations and government agencies involved in business litigation.

Practice areas

Cornerstone utilizes both internal and external expert witnesses to provide testimony, utilizing faculty and industry experts.

According to its website, the company's practice areas include: Accounting; Antitrust & Competition

Antitrust

The United States antitrust law is a body of laws that prohibits anti-competitive behavior and unfair business practices. Antitrust laws are intended to encourage competition in the marketplace. These competition laws make illegal certain practices deemed to hurt businesses or consumers or both,...

; Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy is a legal status of an insolvent person or an organisation, that is, one that cannot repay the debts owed to creditors. In most jurisdictions bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor....

 and Financial Distress Litigation; Consumer Fraud and Product Liability

Product liability

Product liability is the area of law in which manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers, and others who make products available to the public are held responsible for the injuries those products cause...

; Corporate Governance

Corporate governance

Corporate governance is a number of processes, customs, policies, laws, and institutions which have impact on the way a company is controlled...

; Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA); Energy

Energy

In physics, energy is an indirectly observed quantity. It is often understood as the ability a physical system has to do work on other physical systems...

; Financial Institutions; Intellectual Property

Intellectual property

Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

; International Arbitration

International arbitration

International arbitration is a leading method for resolving disputes arising from international commercial agreements and other international relationships...

 and Litigation; Labor, Employment, and Discrimination; Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare; Securities, and Valuation. Practice area descriptions can be found at the firm's website at Cornerstone.com.

Publications

The firm produces an annual publication called the "Securities Class Action Clearinghouse" in conjunction with the Stanford University Law School. According to a University website, the clearinghouse provides summary information regarding federal class action securities litigation

Securities fraud

Securities fraud, also known as stock fraud and investment fraud, is a practice that induces investors to make purchase or sale decisions on the basis of false information, frequently resulting in losses, in violation of the securities laws....

 in the United States

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Office locations

Cornerstone Research maintains six offices in the United States located in Boston, Los Angeles, Menlo Park, California, New York, San Francisco, and Washington DC.