 Navigant Consulting, Inc. () (then The Metzler Group, Inc.) purchased LECG in a deal valued at $214 million.In October 2000 the private equity fund Thoma Cressey Equity Partners and the management team of LECG announced the acquisition of assets from Navigant Consulting.At the time, the firm had more than 300 employees and focused on antitrust, deregulation, damage analysis, economic and financial modeling, and intellectual property rights.