CDMA involves:

• Identifying, acquiring, synthesizing, mining and analyzing relevant data.
• Identifying the relationships among multiple sources and types of data.
• Designing and implementing accounting, economic, and financial settlement or damages models.
• Distributing or sharing information among interested parties such as experts, corporate and outside counsel, and codefendants.

This data-intensive analysis serves as the foundation for data warehousing, customer segmentation analysis, planning a case strategy and developing analyses integral to settlement scenario, liability, and damages modeling. CDMA is increasingly important in the current litigation environment because:

• Data is often available to perform precise and complex analyses.
• In many cases, 100 percent calculations can be completed, eliminating the need for statistical estimates and confidence intervals.
• Early case assessment assists in the development of case strategy.
• Rapid and flexible scenario development can help expedite settlement negotiations.