Alan Ratliff, CPA-JD, is a consultant and testifying expert witness on economic damages, accounting, business custom and practice, and valuation issues, as well as a forensic accountant. Alan has served as a court appointed Special Master, arbitrator and mediator. Alan has his undergraduate and graduate degrees in accounting from Baylor University (Magna and Summa Cum Laude, respectively) and his law degree from Southern Methodist University (Cum Laude), where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and a managing editor of the Law Review. Alan speaks and writes regularly on accounting, damages, valuation and IP issues including in publications of the American Bar Association, the Houston and Texas Tech Law Reviews, and international trial and technology journals. Alan has spoken at numerous litigation and IP conferences and has chaired or served on the local boards of the Federal Bar Association, Houston Bar Litigation Council, and the American Corporate Counsel Association. Alan is active in the community by focusing on education and the arts, serving or chairing the boards of Girls Incorporated, the Chinquapin School, Lawyer's in Public Schools, the Baylor University Development Council, Jazz Education, Inc., Theatre Under the Stars and Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts.