4. Special Charges

During the year ended December 31, 2016, we recorded special charges of $10.4 million. The charges are related to employee terminations in our Technology segment, health solutions practice of our Forensic and Litigation Consulting segment, and Corporate infrastructure group. The charges consisted of salary continuance and other contractual employee-related costs.

There were no special charges recorded during the year ended December 31, 2015.

During the year ended December 31, 2014, we recorded special charges of $16.3 million. The charges reflect the contractual post-employment payments and equity award expense acceleration, net of forfeitures of awards and annual bonus payments of former executive officers, the termination of the corporate airplane lease, the closure of the Company’s former West Palm Beach executive office and related lease termination, and updated forecasts of expected sublease income for corporate and segment offices previously vacated.

The following table details the special charges by segment.

	Year Ended December 31,
Special Charges by Segment	2016		2014
Corporate Finance & Restructuring	$	—	$	84
Forensic and Litigation Consulting		2,304		308
Economic Consulting		—		12
Technology		7,529		19
Strategic Communications		—		3
		9,833		426
Unallocated Corporate		612		15,913
Total	$	10,445	$	16,339

The table below summarizes the activity related to the liabilities for these costs for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015.

	Employee			Lease
	Termination			Termination
	Costs			Costs			Total
Balance at December 31, 2014	$	13,759		$	4,854		$	18,613
Additions		—			—			—
Payments		(5,826	)		(1,212	)		(7,038	)
Foreign currency translation adjustment and other⁽¹⁾		(165	)		403			238
Balance at December 31, 2015	$	7,768		$	4,045		$	11,813
Additions⁽²⁾		10,724			—			10,724
Payments		(10,264	)		(896	)		(11,160	)
Foreign currency translation adjustment and other		(3	)		186			183
Balance at December 31, 2016⁽³⁾	$	8,225		$	3,335		$	11,560

⁽¹⁾	A fair value adjustment of $0.2 million and $0.4 million related to expected sublease income was recorded to “Selling, general and administrative expenses” within operating income in our Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income during the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively.

⁽²⁾	Excludes $0.3 million in net non-cash expense reversals.

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Of the $11.6 million remaining liability for special charges, $6.1 million is expected to be paid in 2017, $2.6 million is expected to be paid in 2018, $1.2 million is expected to be paid in 2019, $0.4 million is expected to be paid in 2020 and the remaining balance of $1.3 million is expected to be paid from 2021 to 2025.