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Segment Reporting
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Segment Reporting Segment Reporting
We manage our business in five reportable segments: Corporate Finance, FLC, Economic Consulting, Technology and Strategic Communications.
Our Corporate Finance segment focuses on the strategic, operational, financial, transactional and capital needs of our clients around the world. Our clients include companies, boards of directors, investors, private equity sponsors, lenders, and other financing sources and creditor groups, as well as other parties-in-interest. We deliver a wide range of services centered around three core offerings: business transformation, transactions and turnaround & restructuring.
Our FLC segment provides law firms, companies, government entities, private equity firms and other interested parties with a multidisciplinary and independent range of services in risk and investigations and disputes, including a focus on highly regulated industries such as our construction & environmental solutions and health solutions services. These services are supported by our data & analytics solutions, which help our clients analyze large, disparate sets of data related to their business operations and support our clients during regulatory inquiries and commercial disputes. We deliver a wide range of services centered around five core offerings: construction & environmental solutions, data & analytics, disputes, health solutions and risk and investigations.
Our Economic Consulting segment, including subsidiary Compass Lexecon LLC, provides law firms, companies, government entities and other interested parties with analyses of complex economic issues for use in international arbitration, legal and regulatory proceedings, and strategic decision making and public policy debates around the world. We deliver a wide range of services centered around three core offerings: antitrust & competition economics, financial economics and international arbitration.    
Our Technology segment provides companies, law firms, private equity firms and government entities with a comprehensive global portfolio of consulting and services to address legal and regulatory risk, including e-discovery, information governance, privacy and security and corporate legal operations solutions. We deliver a full spectrum of services centered around three core offerings: corporate legal operations, e-discovery services and expertise, and information governance, privacy & security services.
Our Strategic Communications segment develops and executes communications strategies to help management teams, boards of directors, law firms, governments and regulators manage change and mitigate risk surrounding transformational and disruptive events, including transactions, investigations, disputes, crises, regulation and legislation. We deliver a wide range of services centered around three core offerings: corporate reputation, financial communications and public affairs.
We evaluate the performance of our operating segments based on Adjusted Segment EBITDA, a GAAP financial measure. We define Adjusted Segment EBITDA as a segment’s share of consolidated operating income before depreciation, amortization of intangible assets, remeasurement of acquisition-related contingent consideration, special charges and goodwill impairment charges. We define Total Adjusted Segment EBITDA, which is a non-GAAP financial measure, as the total of Adjusted Segment EBITDA for all segments, which excludes unallocated corporate expenses. We use Adjusted Segment EBITDA as a basis to internally evaluate the financial performance of our segments because we believe it reflects current core operating performance and provides an indicator of the segment’s ability to generate cash.
The table below presents revenues and Adjusted Segment EBITDA for our reportable segments:
 Year Ended December 31,
 202120202019
Revenues   
Corporate Finance$938,969 $910,184 $723,721 
FLC584,835 500,275 577,780 
Economic Consulting697,405 599,088 592,542 
Technology287,366 223,016 215,584 
Strategic Communications267,647 228,712 243,090 
Total revenues$2,776,222 $2,461,275 $2,352,717 
Adjusted Segment EBITDA
Corporate Finance$155,482 $216,830 $160,735 
FLC72,545 33,374 104,435 
Economic Consulting117,186 91,432 84,112 
Technology55,739 43,013 45,688 
Strategic Communications54,313 38,975 44,544 
Total Adjusted Segment EBITDA$455,265 $423,624 $439,514 
The table below reconciles net income to Total Adjusted Segment EBITDA. Unallocated corporate expenses primarily include indirect costs related to centrally managed administrative functions that have not been allocated to the segments. These administrative costs include costs related to executive management, legal, corporate office support costs, information technology, accounting, marketing, human resources, and company-wide business development and strategy functions.
 Year Ended December 31,
 202120202019
Net income$234,966 $210,682 $216,726 
Add back:
Income tax provision62,981 51,764 71,724 
Interest income and other(6,193)412 (2,061)
Interest expense20,294 19,805 19,206 
Unallocated corporate expenses104,457 94,463 98,398 
Segment depreciation expense31,072 29,381 27,369 
Amortization of intangible assets10,818 10,387 8,152 
Segment special charges— 6,730 — 
Remeasurement of acquisition-related contingent consideration(3,130)— — 
Total Adjusted Segment EBITDA$455,265 $423,624 $439,514 
The table below presents assets by reportable segment, reconciled to consolidated amounts. Segment assets primarily include accounts and notes receivable, fixed assets purchased specifically for the segment, goodwill and intangible assets:
 December 31,
 20212020
Corporate Finance$927,543 $925,082 
FLC445,602 412,803 
Economic Consulting554,978 553,217 
Technology206,376 200,396 
Strategic Communications214,580 214,503 
Total segment assets2,349,079 2,306,001 
Unallocated corporate assets751,830 471,362 
Total assets$3,100,909 $2,777,363 
The table below details total revenues by country. Revenues have been attributed to locations based on the location of the legal entity generating the revenues.
 Year Ended December 31,
 202120202019
U.S.$1,708,673 $1,544,777 $1,555,133 
U.K.461,354 421,125 389,338 
All other foreign countries606,195 495,373 408,246 
Total revenues$2,776,222 $2,461,275 $2,352,717 
We do not have a single customer that represents 10% or more of our consolidated revenues.
The table below details information on our long-lived assets and net assets by geographic location, which is based on the location of the legal entity holding the assets. We define net assets as total assets less total liabilities.
 December 31, 2021December 31, 2020
 U.S.U.K.All Other
Foreign Countries		U.S.U.K.All Other
Foreign Countries
Property and equipment, net $107,216 $14,023 $20,924 $64,923 $19,150 $17,569 
Net assets$833,412 $294,809 $455,100 $763,159 $196,708 $440,314