Heather Albright

Heather Albright has experience providing forensic accounting, litigation consulting, and expert witness services to clients involved in litigation, investigations, or other complex business challenges.

Heather specializes in calculating and providing expert testimony on economic damages in cases involving breach of contract, tortious interference, fraudulent inducement, breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriation of trade secrets, and other related claims. She has developed damages theories and conducted analyses encompassing lost profits, fixed and variable costs, unjust enrichment, disgorged profits, out-of-pocket costs, prejudgment interest, and other methodologies. Ms. Albright has also evaluated and testified on issues of ascertainability and commonality in class action matters.

Heather also has extensive experience providing forensic and investigative support for fraud and white-collar investigations. Her experience includes matters involving the False Claims Act (FCA), the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and other investigations related to accounting and financial reporting irregularities, embezzlement, asset misappropriation, and other fraud schemes.

Her professional expertise spans a wide range of industries, including financial services, insurance, and healthcare. A significant portion of her work involves leveraging complex data analytics to analyze large datasets, often to be used in expert testimony.

Heather has been deposed and testified as an expert witness in federal and state courts and in arbitration and has offered assistance to counsel throughout all phases of the litigation process. Ms. Albright also extends operational consulting services to clients aiming to improve their processes and internal controls.

Prior to joining Stout, Heather held Director positions at Natoma Partners and Huron Consulting Group, served as a Manager at Sidley Austin LLP, and worked as a consultant at Arthur Andersen.