Thomas Neches, managing partner of Thomas Neches & Company LLP, provides
accounting, financial, business valuation and statistical analyses to
assist trial attorneys. Mr. Neches has testified as an expert in state and
federal courts in Arizona, California, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada,
New York and Oregon. He is a Certified Public Accountant, Accredited in
Business Valuation, a Certified Valuation Analyst, a Certified Fraud
Examiner and is Certified in Financial Forensics. Mr. Neches received his BA
in Mathematics 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 more than than thirty-five years of professional experience.
During the past twenty-eight years he has provided litigation services
almost exclusively. Prior to forming Thomas Neches & Company in 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 which
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 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 is 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 National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts,
the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the American Statistical
Association and the American Bar Association.
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