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LECG Corporation provides independent expert testimony and original authoritative studies in both adversarial and non-adversarial environments. The company conducts economic, financial, accounting, and statistical analyses to provide objective opinions and strategic advice to legislative, judicial, regulatory, and business decision makers. Its clients include corporations, major law firms and local, state and federal governments and agencies in the United States and other countries worldwide. SEGMENTS The company operates in two segments: Economics Services Segment and Finance and Accounting Services Segment. Economics Services Segment The Economics Services Segment consists of energy and environment, global competition, labor and employment, regulated industries, and securities sectors. Energy and environment: The company provides expertise in the regulated energy, environment, and natural resources industries. Global competition: The company offers a range of services on antitrust matters, including mergers and acquisition, before courts and regulatory authorities around the world. The services involve the use of economic and statistical techniques to develop independent and objective analyses concerning issues related to merger reviews, monopolization claims, cartels, and quantification of damages. Experts in this area frequently testify before courts and appear before competition authorities in various jurisdictions around the world. Labor and employment: The company provides litigation support, independent expert testimony, and business advisory services, including issues of statistical liability in discrimination, wrongful termination, and wage and hour claims. Regulated industries: The company provides expertise in a range of regulated industries, such as energy, environment and natural resources, telecommunications, transportation and financial claims. Securities: The company involves in the study of capital markets. These financial economists conduct independent analyses in disputes involving allegations of securities fraud, valuation of complex securities, and capital market transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions. Finance and Accounting Services Segment The Finance and Accounting Services Segment consists of electronic discovery, financial services, forensic accounting, healthcare, higher education, intellectual property, and international finance, and accounting services sectors. Electronic discovery: The company provides direct collaboration with outside counsel, general counsel, corporate executives, bank examiners, bankruptcy trustees, forensic accountants, fraud examiners, and damages experts to deliver objective advice and testimony in various phases of the electronic discovery process, including litigation preparedness, computer forensics, and data analytics. Financial services: The company provides banking advisory services to financial service firms worldwide, addressing regulatory compliance, tax, and dispute resolution, and provides representation before applicable regulatory authorities and assists clients in regulatory compliance and SEC investigations and litigation. Forensic accounting: The company provides a range of expertise in accounting, auditing, computer forensics, regulatory (SEC), valuation, tax, and securities litigation, and offers a mix of forensic accounting services, including internal investigations, fraud investigations, and when necessary, expert witness testimony. Healthcare: The company provides analyses and insight to clients confronting the uncertain healthcare environment by advising clients in the development of strategies, designing and understanding policies, and responding to legal and regulatory challenges, and offers a range of litigation support, management advisory, compliance, and expert testimony services. Higher education: The company provides strategic advice and management consulting to companies, universities, governments, and non-profit organizations with a focus on research and development and higher education. Intellectual property: The company provides expertise in areas, such as capturing value from