Management Consulting: Litigation Support

Kline Litigation Support Services provide expert assistance in matters relating to the energy, chemical, and related consumer products industries. Our services range from helping attorneys formulate a litigation strategy to developing/analyzing information during the entire discovery/trial processes and arbitration proceedings, including:

• Evaluating justification for litigation


• Assisting in litigation strategy


• Expert witness reports and testimony


• Depositions, deposition support, and trial testimony


• Damages assessment – lost market, lost profit, and unjust profit


• Contract arbitration


• Intellectual property disputes - patent infringement, IP theft, trademarks, and copyright

We add value by combining in-depth analysis with deep knowledge of the industry context and business environment, incorporating modular frameworks and tools as required. We conduct robust financial analysis for damages assessment and settlement.

Our litigation support services are closely aligned with our management consulting and market research services.

• Kline Management Consulting combines leading functional capabilities with deep industry expertise to help resolve a wide range of issues faced by our clients


• Kline Market Research offers a host of comprehensive market research reports and services, covering many markets in the industrial, professional, and consumer sectors

Kline’s focus is on the chemicals and materials (petrochemicals, polymers and plastics, specialty chemicals), energy (oil/gas production, petroleum fuels, and specialty petroleum products), consumer products (personal care, home care, food and beverages), and life sciences (agricultural products, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical) industries worldwide. Our knowledge extends throughout the entire value chain of each of these sectors. Our experts draw upon their deep industry knowledge of both technical/scientific and commercial issues in providing litigation support. We also have experience in the downstream manufacturing sector including automotive components, consumer products, packaging products, and various assembled and fabricated products.

A representative list of engagements for litigation support includes:

• Investigation of potential violation of technology agreement for synthetic rubber production


• Damage assessment resulting from transportation delays associated with a key intermediate chemical


• Expert report and testimony to defend leading cosmetic marketer on a licensing agreement and relevant market issue


• Patent infringement investigation of a production process of a major fluorochemical


• Expert report and testimony to defend in a case alleging infringement of trade secrets for production of a key intermediate chemical used in specialty formulated products


• Challenge damage claims from infringement of trade secrets


• Valuation of lost market opportunity and profits resulting from contract violation in a specialty chemicals joint venture in the Middle East