Alisa Knapp

Her twenty-year career has focused on advising and consulting with clients on the financial and economic implications of business decision-making, primarily related to litigation-based damages and royalty audits. Ms. Knapp has worked on matters before multiple US federal and state courts, the US ITC, and arbitration forums.

Ms. Knapp has significant experience with all aspects of related case work, including overall project planning, management and coordination, expert report drafting, deposition and trial preparation, review and assessment of other experts’ reports, financial modeling and analysis (such as discounted cash flow projection models), and research on economic, financial, and legal issues.

Ms. Knapp has substantial experience in matters relating to intellectual property (patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, trademark infringement and copyright infringement), International Trade Commission (ITC) investigations, commercial litigation (employee raiding, breach of contract, tortious interference, unfair competition, unjust enrichment), and commercial arbitration. Ms. Knapp is well-versed in damages case law in these areas.

Ms. Knapp has provided advisory services to clients across a broad spectrum of industries, including: apparel; banking, securities, and financial markets; chemicals; computer hardware and networking; consumer products; life sciences (pharmaceuticals and medical devices); mortgage lending / brokerage and insurance brokerage; publishing; semiconductors and optoelectronics; software; telecommunications; and transportation and automotive. She also has experience in evaluating state and municipal level appropriations, economic damages and abatement costs in discriminatory mortgage foreclosure and opioid-related matters.

Prior to joining CRA, Ms. Knapp was a senior director in the Forensic and Litigation Consulting practice at a consulting firm.