Lisa Zelinski

Lisa Zelinski is a Director at GlassRatner and a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of Michigan, as well as a Certified in Financial Forensics professional designated by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She brings extensive experience in litigation consulting services and accounting guidance implementation projects.

Ms. Zelinski has worked on a wide range of litigation matters, including personal injury claims such as medical malpractice, wrongful death, product liability, and first and third party auto accidents. Her experience also includes employment discrimination and professional malpractice matters, financial reporting irregularities, employee and vendor fraud, automotive industry OEM and supplier claims, post acquisition disputes, SEC and government investigations, patent and trademark infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, broker raiding claims, and creditor side bankruptcy services. In connection with these engagements, she has performed fact finding and discovery assistance, lost profit calculations, reasonable royalty rate analyses, business valuations, lost earnings and wage computations, and other financial analyses. Ms. Zelinski has been listed as an expert witness and has authored expert reports in litigation matters.

Her litigation experience spans multiple industries, including automotive, healthcare, insurance, professional practices, retail, construction, manufacturing, software, real estate, and electronics. In addition to litigation work, Ms. Zelinski has provided consulting services for SEC registrants and has worked on accounting and auditing issues such as mark to market pension accounting, restatements, revenue recognition, inventory valuation, and lease accounting. She has served as a project manager on multiple revenue recognition adoption projects for public and private companies in manufacturing, education, software offerings, and service industries, and has assisted clients in responding to SEC inquiries and investigations.

Ms. Zelinski is a frequent speaker on topics involving fraud and forensic accounting and has volunteered as an expert witness with the Institute for Continuing Legal Education’s Deposition Skills Workshop. She has also volunteered time for both the Forensic Accounting and Litigation and Business Valuation Expert Panels with the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants.

She earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Central Michigan University, with majors in accounting and personal financial planning. Ms. Zelinski is a member of the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the National Association of Forensic Economists.