K&F Consulting Publishes 2007 Price List
For Forensic Auditing, E-Discovery Services

            ATLANTA, Ga. – Jan. 30, 2007 – K&F Consulting, Inc., a provider of litigation support and electronic data discovery services, has published its 2007 price list for professional services.           

Founding principal Greg Fordham said K&F’s pricing structure reflects a very slight increase in rates for e-discovery and document imaging services, although the company’s prices for services continues to be at midpoint or slightly below midpoint in when compared to others in the industry segment.           

"We periodically examine our market basket of services against others in our industry segment," Fordham said.            

"For example, our published price for an initial forensic audit, although conducted on an hourly basis, has a not-to-exceed cap of $6,000. Most of our competition appears to charge as much as 50 percent more for the same level services," he said.

"For e-discovery work, our pricing strategy is rather aggressive when compared to the marketplace as a whole," Fordham noted. "We charge a flat fee $5,000 for storage on the hard drive with the average drive size ranging between 40 and 80 gigabytes.  Elsewhere in the market we’ve seen published prices of $1,000 per gigabyte. That would be $40,000 for a 40 gigabyte!"            

Fordham said his lower price structure can be attributed to having more experienced personnel who know how to leverage the computer’s power to accomplish the job. "We truly believe in the 'work smarter, not harder' adage,”"he said.                   

"Clients measure us on the quality of work we produce for their needs, not whether we're located at a prestigious address that brings with it the associated higher overhead. We’d rather share the fruits of our services with our team," Fordham said.         

K&F’s full price list is available at www.knfcon.com/practice_areas/price_list.html.            

Recently, K&F was instrumental in helping the U.S. Justice Department obtain a $155 million judgment to settle allegations that a pharmacy benefit management company submitted false claims to the government, solicited and accepted kickbacks from pharmaceutical manufacturers to favor their drugs, and paid kickbacks to health plans to obtain business.

"Computer data was important in the process to reach such a large settlement, which we've been told is one of the 10 largest healthcare recoveries in history," said Gregory L. Fordham, a founding principal with K&F.  "While the government already had good evidence of the alleged wrongdoing, supporting such a large settlement required identifying thousands of false claims."

K&F forensic computer experts audited more than one billion rows of data involving about 100 million prescription fills and refills at a unit cost of less than a penny per prescription.

"It was a job that would be impossible to do manually," Fordham said. "We found a lot of information in a very short period of time that supported the government’s case and surprised a lot of people with how quickly we were able to do the work," he added.           

K&F Consulting services a nationwide clientele. The firm provides a variety of e-discovery and computer forensic services including database forensics, software forensics as well as the more well known forms of computer forensics such as hard drive and media forensics.            

For more information about the firm visit www.knfcon.com.

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