
Litigation Support
Description of Service
VAC is the best team of experts to support your litigation challenges. Whether you are in the offensive or defensive position Volatile Analysis Corporation, knowing aroma and the scientific nuances related to sensory perception and analytical measurement, can help you design the right strategy with your legal team minimizing costly litigation. Volatile approaches legal issues differently than most consultants. When dealing with litigation or potential litigation it takes different skill sets for varying parts of the preparation. Then the person(s) that needs to be deposed may be very different than the person or persons that do scientific review, produce analytical supporting exercises to demonstrate your position in a more convincing way. Accordingly, we bring a team approach. This is very important to your success. Having a team from VAC doesn’t increase your cost, but gives you the best of each area converging into the strongest legal support for chemistry issues.
Details of Service
Litigation support incorporates many areas. First our strategy on how to build the best offense or defense is put together working with your internal group and your counsel. We evaluate the issue(s) at hand that have led to litigation. We review the scientific merit of your stance and those of your opposition. Our team applies an hypothesis approach, anticipating the scientific options that could be considered by opposing counsel and we provide the path to evaluate proactively those hypothesis. If you are in the midst of litigation, we can review discovery of the opposing party (ies), define what discovery should be requested for your best interest, provide insightful scientific questions for depositions, and provide the best scientist or executive for the deposition. Understanding the holes in the science, issues that can be raised specific to the situation can help you proactively defend your position effectively.
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Applications of Service
Trying to build a case with an individual consultant versus a team like VAC may put you at a disadvantage in the litigation process. Taking a risk of having a knowledgeable scientific consultant support your case that may not have any skill of being able to articulate and recall on their feet in the stressful environment of depositions and/or trial testimony buts you at a disadvantage. VAC puts the right team together to provide the scientific acumen, the integration into the overall positioning, and then a skilled highly qualified resource for deposition that is specifically chosen to be the spokesperson for the case.