Associate

About Charles River Associates

Charles River Associates is a leading global consulting firm that provides economic, financial, and business management expertise to major law firms, corporations and governments around the world. CRA advises clients on economic and financial matters pertaining to litigation and regulatory proceedings, and guides corporations through critical business strategy and performance-related issues. Since 1965, clients have engaged CRA for its combination of industry experience and rigorous, fact-based analysis that provide clients with clear, implementable solutions to complex business concerns.

Position Overview

CRA’s Risk, Investigations & Analytics Practice is an integrated global team that combines specialized investigative and forensic accounting capabilities with sophisticated data analytics and extensive subject-matter expertise to gather intelligence, efficiently respond to crises, and identify and mitigate risks for our clients through all stages of due diligence, investigations, disputes, and litigation.

We provide economic and financial advisory services to companies, legal counsel, and tribunals involved in matters relating to intellectual property disputes (such as patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, trademark and copyright infringement), International Trade Commission investigations, and commercial litigation (such as breach of contract, business interruption, tortious interference, and price discrimination).

As an Associate, you will work alongside your project team and have frequent contact with senior leadership, working primarily on intellectual property disputes and commercial litigation matters.  Overall responsibilities include assisting with the preparation of expert reports (including report writing and financial modeling), and other tasks and analyses such as company, industry and market research.  Day-to-day responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Develop appropriate financial, accounting, and economic analyses and damages models to support case theories;
• Review and summarize client documents, third party financial and industry data, expert reports, depositions, complaints and other legal documents to identify key information and discern relevant patterns;
• Assist in writing of expert reports and deposition questions;
• Conduct industry, market, and competitive research to develop an understanding of the relationships between the parties, the relevant market, and other topics;
• Assist in the production and development of research summaries, expert reports, and the presentation of findings;