Barbara
C. Luna is a Senior Partner in the accounting and litigation
services firm of White, Zuckerman, Warsavsky, Luna, Wolf & Hunt,
LLP. She has served as an expert witness for over twenty
years in business and personal injury litigation and bankruptcy
matters. Dr. Luna analyzes financial, accounting, economic,
business, real estate and valuation issues relating to
liability and damages in litigation matters and reorganization
of businesses. The matters she has been involved in include
breach of contract, intellectual property, unfair competition,
construction, business interruption, business dissolutions,
partnership disputes, professional malpractice, fraud and
misrepresentations, bad faith, wrongful termination, personal
injury, products liability and marital dissolution. She
has testified on numerous occasions in U.S. District Court,
Superior Court, Bankruptcy Court, arbitrations and depositions.
Prior to joining White, Zuckerman, Warsavsky, Luna, Wolf & Hunt,
LLP, Dr. Luna was a Partner with Coopers & Lybrand
specializing in litigation and financial advisory services.
Prior thereto, she was the National Director of Litigation
Consulting for Kenneth Leventhal & Company, where she
was responsible for directing the litigation services practice
nationwide. Previously, Dr. Luna was a Partner with Pannell
Kerr Forster, where she was responsible for providing litigation
and reorganization services, and she was a Senior Manager
with Price Waterhouse specializing in litigation services.
Before focusing on litigation services, she was an investment
banker specializing in corporate finance.
Dr. Luna has taught graduate and undergraduate courses
in working capital management, business finance, forensic
accounting and intermediate accounting at the UCLA Graduate
School of Management, Cal State Northridge and Pepperdine
University. She has addressed numerous audiences and has
appeared on several professional panels. She obtained her
MS and PhD degrees in Applied Mathematics from Harvard
University and her BA degree from Wellesley College.
Dr. Luna is a Certified
Public Accountant, an Accredited Senior Appraiser in Business
Valuation, Accredited in Business Valuation, a Certified
Valuation Analyst, a Certified Forensic Financial Analyst,
a Certified General Real Estate Appraiser, a Certified
Commercial Real Estate Appraiser, a Certified Residential
Real Estate Appraiser, a Certified Fraud Examiner, a Certified
Management Consultant, and a Diplomate Board Certified
Forensic Examiner and Accountant. She is a member of the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (and
holds the AICPA’s ABV designation), the California
Society of Certified Public Accountants (and the Society's
Economic Damages, Fraud and Business Valuation Common Interest
Member Services Committees and the Los Angeles Litigation
Services Committee), the Association of Business Trial
Lawyers (and the Association's Committee on Experts), the
National Association of Forensic Economists, the American
Boards of Forensic Examiners and Accountants, the American
Society of Appraisers, the National Association of Certified
Valuation Analysts, the National Association of Real Estate
Appraisers, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners,
the Institute of Management Consultants and an associate
member of the Appraisal Institute.
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