Charlene Laino Podlipna, CPA, CFF

Charlene Podlipna is a Certified Public Accountant and has provided litigation support services for over six years, working with counsel in civil and criminal litigation.  Ms. Podlipna’s experience includes a variety of disputes including breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, partnership disputes, shareholder suits, economic damages, lost earnings, business valuations, and alleged embezzlements.  Her industry experience includes media, telecommunications, entertainment, real estate development and construction, healthcare, non-profit, and manufacturing.  In assisting counsel with these various matters, Ms. Podlipna has performed detailed analyses of financial records including general ledgers and financial statements, reviewed audit work papers, researched GAAP, GAAS and SEC rules and regulations, and assisted counsel and expert witnesses in preparation for report submittal, deposition, and trial testimony.

Prior to joining Freeman & Mills, Ms. Podlipna worked as a consultant, independently and for Resources Global Professionals, on accounting projects to analyze the internal controls of publicly held companies for compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.  Prior to working as a consultant, Ms. Podlipna trained and implemented audit software at CPA firms as a Senior Software Consultant for CCH Incorporated, a leading tax and accounting software company.  She worked in public accounting for five years as a consultant in the Litigation Services division at Gursey, Schneider & Co., LLP and as a senior auditor at Arthur Andersen LLP.

Ms. Podlipna earned a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Southern California at Los Angeles.