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Segment Reporting
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
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 and governments. We deliver a wide range of services centered around three core offerings: Transactions, Transformation & Strategy and Turnaround & Restructuring.
Our FLC segment provides law firms, companies, boards of directors, government entities, private equity firms and other interested parties with a multidisciplinary and independent range of services across risk & investigations and disputes, supported by our data & analytics technology-enabled solutions, with a focus on highly regulated industries. Our services are centered around five core offerings: Construction, Projects & Assets and Environmental Solutions, Data & Analytics, Disputes, Healthcare Risk Management & Advisory 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 digital insights and risk management consulting and data services. Our professionals help organizations better address risk as the growing volume and variety of enterprise and emerging data intersects with legal, regulatory and compliance needs. We deliver a wide range of expert and analytics-powered solutions driven by investigations, litigation, antitrust and competition, mergers & acquisitions, restructuring and compliance and risk through three core offerings: Corporate Legal Department Consulting, E-discovery and Analytics 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 have considered information that is regularly provided to our Chief Executive Officer, who is our chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) for our segment reporting disclosure. Our CODM assesses the performance and allocates resources
to each segment based on revenues and multiple measures of segment profit, including gross profit, which is the measure closest to GAAP reporting principles. Gross profit is defined as revenues less direct costs of revenues. Our CODM is not provided asset information by reportable segment.
The tables below summarize revenues, significant expenses and gross profit by reportable segment:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025
Corporate
Finance		FLCEconomic
Consulting		TechnologyStrategic CommunicationsTotal
Revenues$343,645 $190,602 $179,861 $97,156 $87,018 $898,282 
Direct costs
Compensation expenses (1)
210,418 110,878 129,105 37,131 45,479 533,011 
Other segment items (2)
21,154 7,083 9,340 27,127 11,213 75,917 
231,572 117,961 138,445 64,258 56,692 608,928 
Segment gross profit (3)
$112,073 $72,641 $41,416 $32,898 $30,326 $289,354 
Three Months Ended March 31, 2024
Corporate
Finance		FLCEconomic
Consulting		TechnologyStrategic CommunicationsTotal
Revenues$366,010 $176,074 $204,548 $100,713 $81,208 $928,553 
Direct costs
Compensation expenses (1)
215,440 104,362 144,301 36,600 44,219 544,922 
Other segment items (2)
22,750 8,032 15,139 27,469 7,722 81,112 
238,190 112,394 159,440 64,069 51,941 626,034 
Segment gross profit (3)
$127,820 $63,680 $45,108 $36,644 $29,267 $302,519 
(1)The significant expense category and amounts align with the segment-level information that is regularly provided to the CODM.
(2)Other segment items include expenses for contractor fees, depreciation and other costs. In our Technology segment, other segment items also include expenses related to software and licensing and data storage.
(3)Includes internal cost recovery for work performed on corporate projects of $3.6 million and $3.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Costs associated with billable work performed on corporate projects are included in unallocated corporate expenses as SG&A expenses in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income.
The table below reconciles income before income tax provision to total segment gross profit:
Three Months Ended March 31,
20252024
Income before income tax provision$80,581 $99,495 
Add back:
Interest expense 968 1,719 
Interest income and other(2,842)(1,581)
Amortization of intangibles1,017 1,016 
Special charges25,295 — 
Selling, general and administrative expenses (1)
184,335 201,870 
Total segment gross profit (1)
$289,354 $302,519 
(1)Includes internal cost recovery for work performed on corporate projects of $3.6 million and $3.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.