Rebecca Fitzhugh

Overview

Rebecca is a Signing Director in CLA's VFLI (Valuation, Forensic, Litigation, and Investigations) practice, specializing in financial disputes and forensic investigations. She has testified as an expert witness in state and federal courts and arbitrations. 

She uses her technical and analytical skills to help attorneys unravel the financial and compliance puzzles their clients face to resolve their issues efficiently. In addition, she leverages her experience to advise corporate, nonprofit, and municipal clients concerning assessing and strengthening their fraud resilience and investigating occurrences of fraud.

Rebecca has served clients in government, construction, nonprofit, manufacturing, financial institutions, commercial real estate, and retail. In addition, she has provided expert witness testimony and expert reports in several shareholder disputes, commercial damages claims, corporate internal investigations, and other forensic accounting matters.

Rebecca is passionate about combating fraud by educating people and developing and presenting continuing legal education classes for attorneys.

Education

Seton Hall University

SUNY Binghamton, MBA

Union College, BA

In the community

Partners for Women and Justice, Board Chair

Morris County Bar Foundation, Trustee

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

New Jersey Society of CPAs

Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

Association of Inspectors General