At this year’s Above & Beyond Awards, Sanctuary is honoring an incredible team at Charles River Associates for their investigative and forensic accounting work on behalf of Sanctuary’s clients.
At this year’s Above & Beyond Awards, Sanctuary for Families is honoring an incredible team at Charles River Associates for their investigative and forensic accounting work on behalf of Sanctuary’s clients. The team includes CRA vice presidents Lisa Dane and Alexandra Knatchbull, principal Niall Murphy, associate principal Victor Epstein, associates Brenden Ebertz and Trishla Jain, and consulting associate Noah Genovesi.
Charles River Associates (“CRA”) has brought their investigative and forensic accounting expertise to fight for survivors and support Sanctuary’s clients. CRA has supported legal teams on countless cases—cases involving the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (“DVSJA”), divorce matters, international child abduction cases, sex trafficking cases, and incarcerated clients. The team at CRA leverages their resources and skills to combine forces with Sanctuary attorneys and pro bono attorneys to achieve significant and tangible results.
Just some of CRA’s investigative contributions to these matters include:
- Providing intelligence and conducting source work to locate a kidnapped child who was being hidden outside of the U.S.
- Forensically examining the financials of a former partner in a custody case.
- For purposes of serving papers in divorce matters, locating countless opposing party’s addresses or businesses, and for purposes of alternative service, locating opposing party’s social media accounts, phone numbers, relatives, or associates.
- Locating medical records, criminal records, and even archived police records.
- Locating former neighbors and friends to serve as witnesses to support survivors in DVSJA re-sentencing matters.
- Identifying a former partner’s undisclosed assets and companies through corporate registry research.
Reflecting on CRA’s work, Nicole Fidler, Senior Project Director of the Pro Bono Project and the Narkis Golan International Child Abduction Initiative at Sanctuary for Families explained their importance to Sanctuary’s work:
“Our partners at CRA always try to find us something we can use to help our clients in their cases. They are incredibly quick to respond and always eager to help. If there is not an obvious answer to a request, they think outside the box to figure out how they can find useful information or provide helpful analysis. We are lucky to have CRA as an ever-reliable resource. Everyone in Sanctuary’s Legal Department loves working them!”
– Nicole Fidler, Sanctuary for Families
As to CRA’s work with Sanctuary, Lisa Dane, Vice President in CRA’s Risk, Investigations & Analytics Group said, “being able to pivot our investigative skillsets to collaborate with Sanctuary and other pro bono lawyers to help improve people’s lives is deeply meaningful and important to our firm. We are honored and grateful for the recognition and congratulate the other honorees and Sanctuary’s team for their exceptional work.”
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Join us at our Above & Beyond Awards Ceremony on October 8, 2024, as we honor CRA’s outstanding pro bono work.