BENCHMARK LITIGATION CONSULTING & TRIAL ADVISORY
Litigation-Focused Expert Analysis for Complex Matters
Navigating complex legal matters requires disciplined analysis, methodological rigor, and clarity under scrutiny. Sunny Slaughter Consulting, LLC (SSC) provides expert advisory and litigation strategy support to law firms, in-house counsel, and institutions facing high-exposure civil, criminal, and institutional matters.
Engagements are grounded in court-facing methodology, not advocacy, and are designed to assist counsel and courts in understanding what occurred, why it occurred, and how decisions, investigations, and institutional responses will withstand judicial review.
Unified Expert Methodology
SSC applies a consistent, structured analytical approach across matters involving human behavior, investigative integrity, causation, and institutional performance.
This approach integrates:
- Behavioral and trauma-context analysis (non-diagnostic)
- Investigative integrity and evidentiary reliability review
- Reconstruction, reasonableness, and root-cause analysis
- System failure and organizational accountability assessment
Methods are applied selectively based on scope and relevance and are outcome-neutral, regardless of the retaining party.
SSC’s work assists counsel in understanding not only what happened but also why—particularly when human behavior is misinterpreted, and systems fail.
Litigation & Advisory Practice Areas
Civil Litigation
Neutral & Institutional Matters
Criminal Litigation
• Negligence
• Wrongful Death
• Institutional Liability
• Systems Failure Behavioral context
• Foreseeability
• Investigative integrity
Criminal Litigation
Neutral & Institutional Matters
Criminal Litigation
•Case reconstruction
• Behavioral analysis
• Victimology
• Investigative review
• Evidentiary reliability
Neutral & Institutional Matters
Neutral & Institutional Matters
• Independent investigations
• Federal and administrative reviews
• Mediation and arbitration support
• Systemic assessments
Consulting & Trial Advisory Services
- Expert witness testimony and advisory support
- Case theory development and stress-testing
- Jury education and trial strategy consultation
- Witness preparation and expert coordination
- Comprehensive forensic and evidentiary review
- Cross-examination preparation and testimony containment
- Pre-charge and early-stage case assessment
- Post-resolution and post-conviction review (as scoped)
Case Concentration & Subject Matter Experience
Methodological Frameworks Applied in Litigation & Advisory Work
- Domestic and Sexual Violence (Assault)
- Human Trafficking & Exploitation (Civil Liability/Criminal Offenses)
- Crimes Against Children and Vulnerable Persons
- Wrongful injury and death
- Workplace Violence and Facility Liability
- Hospital and Medical Facility Liability
- School and university liability (Title IX–adjacent matters)
- Corporate Negligence a
- Domestic and Sexual Violence (Assault)
- Human Trafficking & Exploitation (Civil Liability/Criminal Offenses)
- Crimes Against Children and Vulnerable Persons
- Wrongful injury and death
- Workplace Violence and Facility Liability
- Hospital and Medical Facility Liability
- School and university liability (Title IX–adjacent matters)
- Corporate Negligence and Misconduct
- Investigative Integrity and System Failure
- Organizational Response and Accountability Failures
- Civil Rights, OIS, Excessive Force
- Foreseeability, Risk, and Policy Failure Analysis
- Policy & Leadership Failure
Methodological Frameworks Applied in Litigation & Advisory Work
Methodological Frameworks Applied in Litigation & Advisory Work
Selected proprietary analytical frameworks applied in retained expert engagements include:
- Investigative Integrity Scorecard (IIS™)
- Reconstruction, Reasonableness & Root Cause Model (R3M™)
- Alternative Cause, Risk & Dynamics Model (ACRD™)
- System Failure & Safety Framework (S³F™)
- Institutional Accountability Ladder (IAL™)
- Applied Behavior &
Selected proprietary analytical frameworks applied in retained expert engagements include:
- Investigative Integrity Scorecard (IIS™)
- Reconstruction, Reasonableness & Root Cause Model (R3M™)
- Alternative Cause, Risk & Dynamics Model (ACRD™)
- System Failure & Safety Framework (S³F™)
- Institutional Accountability Ladder (IAL™)
- Applied Behavior & Trauma Response Model (AP-BAM™)
- Victimology Behavioral Analysis Matrix (VBAM™)
- Cross-Examination Shield™
These methodologies are proprietary, applied selectively based on scope, and are not published or used outside of retained engagements.