Ronald Longhofer

Mr. Longhofer has extensive experience presiding over complex, high-stakes arbitrations involving financial, accounting and commercial issues, including class actions, throughout the United States. He has been an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association since 1993.

Work History

• Principal, RSL Financial Consulting, LLC, 2006-present • Director, Stout Risius Ross, Inc., 2004-06 • Adjunct Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School, 2003-13, teaching Business Valuation for Lawyers • Author of hardbound treatise on Business Valuation, published by Law Journal Press • Partner, Honigman LLP, 1976-03, 28 years as a litigator concentrating in complex commercial and corporate/securities law (Chair of Litigation Department and head of Corporate and Securities Litigation Practice Group) • Author of treatises on Michigan Civil Procedure and Evidence (16 volumes), published by West Publishing Company • Law Clerk, 1975-76 Hon. John Feikens, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan

Cases

Training

ADR training at numerous AAA/ICDR courses, CPR courses, AICPA courses, and Institute of Continuing Legal Education courses over the years since 1993

License(s)

• Member, State Bar of Michigan since 1975 • U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan since 1975 and 1982, respectively • Numerous other U.S. District Courts throughout the United States (pro hac vice) • United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 1975 • United States Courts of Appeals for the Third and Fourth Circuits (pro hac vice) • U.S. Supreme Court since 1979 • Chartered Financial Analyst since 2001 • Certified Public Accountant, Illinois (since 2006, license currently inactive) • Chartered Global Management Accountant since 2012 • Certified Fraud Examiner (2004-2013)

Education

• MBA, Accounting and Finance, with distinction, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan (2004) Inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma business honor society • JD, magna cum laude, University of Michigan Law School (1975) Inducted into Order of the Coif honor society; Articles Editor, Michigan Law Review • BM, with distinction, University of Michigan (1968) Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies • German Language Diploma, Goethe Institute, Munich, Germany (1972)

Publications

• BUSINESS VALUATION (Hardbound Treatise, Law Journal Press, 2012) • MICHIGAN COURT RULES PRACTICE - TEXT (Six Volume Hardbound Court Rules Commentary, Thomson West, updated annually 1997-2020) • MICHIGAN COURT RULES PRACTICE - FORMS (Five Volume Hardbound Forms With Commentary, Thomson West, updated annually, 1998-2020) • MICHIGAN COURT RULES PRACTICE - EVIDENCE (Three Volume Hardbound Treatise, Thomson West, updated annually 1995-2020) • COURTROOM HANDBOOK ON MICHIGAN CIVIL PROCEDURE (Thomson West, updated annually 1995-2020) • COURTROOM HANDBOOK ON MICHIGAN EVIDENCE (Thomson West, updated annually 1997-2020) • INTRODUCING EVIDENCE AT TRIAL (Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 3d ed, July 2019) • ’The Residual Income Method of Business Valuation,’ BUSINESS VALUATION REVIEW, June 2005 • ’Business Valuation as a Measure of Commercial Damages,’ SRR JOURNAL, April 2005 • ’Time Rule Formulas Considered In Division Of Stock Options At Divorce,’ MICHIGAN LAWYERS WEEKLY, February 28, 2005 • ’Michigan Adopts Daubert Principles and Evidence-Based Expert Testimony,’ 83 Mich. B.J. 34, October 2004 • ’Jury Trial Techniques in Complex Civil Litigation,’ 32 MICHIGAN J.L. REF. 335, Winter 1999 • ’Computer-Based Evidence under the Michigan Evidence Rules,’ 78 MICHIGAN BAR JOURNAL 678, July 1999 • ’Catchall Hearsay Exceptions’ in Robinson & Collins, Introducing Evidence, ICLE, 1997 • ’Michigan’s New Catch-All Hearsay Exceptions,’ MICHIGAN BAR JOURNAL, September 1996 • Note, ’The Conclusive Presumption Doctrine: Equal Process or Due Protection?’ 72 MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW 800, 1974.

Associations

• State Bar of Michigan • CFA Institute • American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (Business Valuation and Forensic & Litigation Services Section) • Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants (Litigation/Business Valuation Task Force) • Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (2004-2013)