Michael's professional career has been a tale of two passions. His first professional passion is teaching and his second is litigation. His university teaching experience spans more than 26 years, the most recent 18 being at the University of Southern California, his alma mater. Michael discovered litigation accounting early in his career as a CPA and has since focused his professional practice in the litigation area.

He is co-founder of Kaplan, Abraham, Burkert Associates, Valuation & Litigation Consultants, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, and Senior Advisor for Freeman & Mills, Consultants to Counsel & Management. His practice area includes pretrial strategic services and expert witness services in matters involving economic damages, business disputes, business valuation, fraud and embezzlement, and employment law. He is called upon regularly to serve as an expert witness in court. Michael's professional activities include an extensive amount of teaching, including graduate university programs in accounting and continuing education programs in litigation, communications and forensics.

Michael Kaplan was born and raised in Chicago, IL and moved to Los Angeles,CA in 1965. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California (BS and MBA).

Michael has been inspired by and is very proud of his family -- his wife, Dina, daughters Stacey and Jennifer, son Brandon, sons-in-law George and Jim, grandchildren Liliana, Clive, and Alice, and mother Bella.  He says, "Family is what's important. The one thing that you can do today, that will have the biggest impact in a hundred years from now, is spend quality time with your children."

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