Economist Expert Witnesses

This expert is the head of a successful practice that is experienced in reviewing and testifying in state and federal complex civil litigation. More than 400 engagements and 70 testimonies. Specializations include loss of earnings in tort cases (personal injury, wrongful death, employment disputes) and loss of profits or business value in contract breach and intellectual property commercial cases. Past work done for plaintiff and defense attorneys in similar proportion.

This expert has worked in labor analysis for over 35 years and has published extensively on the labor market. Previously, he worked at the U.S. Department of Labor where he received numerous Outstanding Performance/Secretary's Exceptional Achievement Awards. He has a PhD in the Economics of Human Resources and is currently Senior Consultant for an employment analysis firm. He has consulted and testified in cases for both defense and plaintiff clients, involving compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, prevailing wage laws, occupational analysis to determine proper classifications and exemption status, and determination of compensation levels.

This expert has been teaching and practicing economics for more than 25 years. He holds a Doctorate in Economics from the University of California, Riverside and has been the Principal of his own economic consulting firm for the past 25 years. He provides consulting services in both the private and public sectors in the areas of economic impact and efficiency studies, cost/benefit analysis, and modeling and forecasting, while he also provides extensive expert witness services in lawsuits concerning personal injury, wrongful death, discrimination, business issues, valuations, and wrongful termination, among others. This expert has been awarded multiple Faculty Research Fellows Grants by the Center of California Studies and his technical reports and studies have been widely cited.

This expert has been working in the field of economics for over 40 years. A member of the National Association of Forensic Economists as well as the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts, he has authored over 40 technical reports and book chapters and is extensively published in journals such as the "Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis". His background spans academic, corporate, and government positions. He taught Economics at Pennsylvania State University and Hartford University prior to holding several management positions with Aetna Life & Casualty, Inc. He then served as the Managing Director of Management & Strategy Analysis, Inc., directing professional staff on economic consulting projects and providing expert witness services to law clients and strategy consulting services to corporate clients. He also worked as the Regional Commissioner of the San Francisco Region of the Bureau of Labor Statics, wherein he led a large staff of professional economists in collecting, analyzing, and distributing economic information in an eight state area. Currently, this expert is the Managing Principal of an economic and litigation support consultancy.

This expert earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from Harvard University and is a member of the American Statistical Association, the American Economic Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has extensive publication and speaking experience on the topic of statistical analysis in the fields of insurance, product liability, public policy, damages, and probability, among others. Statistical expertise includes: regression analysis, sampling and research design, reliability and validity, statistical significance, modeling and estimation, risk analysis, data mining and analysis, quality control, and forecasting and time series.

This expert earned a doctorate in Economics from the University of Arizona. His career in forensic economics, litigation support, economic analysis and consulting spans more than 15 years. In that time, he has produced hundreds of economic reports, has evaluated opposing experts' reports, and has provided expert testimony in both Federal and state courts. This expert also co-authored the book about trucking industry forensic econmics. Additionally, this expert develops econometric models, with applications in business analysis and forecasting and statistical analysis using SAS software.

This expert is an empirical economist and law professor with testifying experience. His research interests revolve around employment law; the dynamics of civil litigation, particularly settlement; criminal law; and sentencing law and reform. He earned his JD, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was the treasurer and an editor of the Harvard Law Review; he went on to earn a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

This expert has extensive experience applying economic and financial models to matters regarding property and casualty insurance. He has applied his models to personal and commercial lines of coverage, including those involving catastrophe exposures. He earned his M.A. and his Ph.D. in Economics from Rutgers University. The expert is a Member of the American Risk & Insurance Association and also sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Insurance Regulation and Benefits Quarterly. He has been working for a large economics consulting firm since 1989.

This highly qualified banking supervisory expert is a former officer at the Federal Reserve Board, where he was responsible for regulatory policies and supervisory standards surrounding credit, market, liquidity and operational risk management at regulated institutions. The expert first joined the Federal Reserve in 1991 as a Supervisory Financial Analyst and became a Deputy Associate Director for the Board of Governors in 2004. He oversaw market and liquidity risk, as well as capital markets, and also handled operational risk policy in his last year with the Federal Reserve. Over the course of a 20-year career with the regulatory body, he established and managed regulatory and supervisory programs on the capital requirements and risk management of banking organizations' capital markets, trading and derivatives activities; treasury functions; interest rate, market risk, and liquidity exposures; and investment portfolio and asset/liability management practices. After leaving the Federal Reserve, the expert joined Ernst & Young LLP as an Executive Director of the Financial Services Risk Management Advisory Practice. He earned his Bachelor of Arts & Sciences in Economics & International Relations from American University, his Masters of Arts & Sciences in Economics from Boston College, his Masters of Business Administration from George Washington University, and his Chartered Financial Analyst credential from CFA Institute.

This expert has more than a quarter century of experience developing financial and economic analyses to solve business problems. His practice principally involves intellectual property issues, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret as well as unfair competition antitrust matters and business valuations, breach of contract disputes, and technology assessment. acquisitions analysis, has enabled him to assist clients on a wide range of litigation issues. His industry experience includes pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, food, industrial products, machinery, automotive aftermarket, electronic components, telecommunications, airlines, computer hardware, software, and media and entertainment. He has testified in state court, U.S. District Court, U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court of International Trade, and before the Federal Trade Commission. Prior to joining Freeman & Mills, he served in senior corporate positions in business planning, acquisitions, and product development. He was the president of a technology marketing and licensing company; served as an economist at the Department of the Treasury, where his responsibilities included corporate fraud, technology licensing and transfer pricing; and was a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He holds a BS in engineering and an MA and a PhD in economics, all from Duke University.

This expert is the Chair in Petroleum and Natural Gas Economics at a major university in the western US. He is an internationally trusted scholar of environmental and resource economics, having served as the managing editor of the top global journal in this field. His current research interests include modeling prices for crude oil and natural gas, the role of delivery infrastructure in natural gas markets, and motivations to hold fossil fuel stockpiles. He holds a BA and PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley; he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the role of regulation and information in the American uranium industry.

This expert on Economic Damages has over 35+ years of experience in calculating damages and performing business valuations. He obtained his BA in Economics, his MBA in Accounting and Finance, and his JD from Tulane University. He is a certified CPA, Senior Appraiser, and Business Appraiser and certified in Financial Forensics and Business Valuation. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.. He has 5 Publications and is currently a Tax and Business Valuation Partner with Moss Adams LLP.

This expert is currently an assistant professor of Economics at a widely respected school of public policy in California. His research focuses on the development and behavior of nonprofit organizations. He earned his doctoral degree in Economics from the University of Michigan and is an active member of both the National Tax Association and the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.

This expert is highly qualified in the field of Forensic Economics. He earned his BS at the University of Southern California, and is active in his field as a member of American Rehabilitation Economics Association and the American Economic Association. He has been a partner at a Forensic Economics Firm in California for the last 25 years. In that capacity, he has performed analysis of financial and operating data to assist in various disruptions to businesses which range from physical damage, extra expense, business interruption, third party liability disputes, employee fidelity and product liability issues.

This expert is an extensively published economic damages and Intellectual property consultant. He has completed complex consulting assignments involving the valuation and pricing of patents, trademarks, copyrights and other intangible assets. His opinions are used to accomplish licensing transactions, acquisitions, transfer pricing, litigation support, collateral-based financing, and joint ventures. His work has also notably been relied upon with regards to IP infringement damages. This expert also publishes three royalty rate resource books, which have been sold all over the world. These books are dedicated to reporting detailed information about the economic aspects of intellectual property transactions including licensing and joint ventures.

This highly qualified expert earned his BA in Pre-Law, MA in Economics, and his PhD in Economics from Penn State University. In addition, he is active in his field as a member of numerous societies including Eastern Economic Association, New York State Economic Association, Northeast Business and Economics Association. Formerly, he held roles as a Research Analyst at Battelle Pacific NW Nat Lab, Cost Analyst at Naval Air Systems, Assistant Professor in Economics at Heidelberg Command and Virginia Military Institute. Currently, he is a Professor of Economics at an elite University. He also has previous experience in depositions (case before a U.S. Circuit Court).

This well-credentialed expert specializes in damages analysis, financial economics, and valuations in complex commercial litigation. Experienced across a range of verticals, he has testified on numerous government matters, including the largest government contract dispute in history. He has also worked in many private litigation matters and has valued damages, intellectual property, and lost profits. The expert earned his BS from Georgetown University, as well as an MA and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University. He began his career as an Economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and is now a Principal for an economic consulting firm.

This well credentialed expert has more than three decades of experience in finance, economics, and statistics, with particular expertise in economic damages assessments, employment litigation, securities and business valuations. He earned his BS in Math and Economics from the University of Oregon, his MBA in Finance from University of California, Los Angeles, and his PhD in Financial Economics from University of California, Los Angeles. He also is a Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute. He is a past member of numerous national consulting practices, all of which focused on forensic economic matters. In addition, he was a lecturer in Finance at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, San Diego, as well as an Assistant Professor at University of California, Irvine. The expert has authored numerous articles and reports in his field. He is currently a Partner at an Economic and Accounting Consulting Firm in California.

This expert has over 25 years of experience in forensic accounting, focusing on the measurement of economic damages and litigation support. He received a BS in Business Administration and Accounting at Roosevelt University and is an active, certified Public Accountant, Global Management Accountant, Financial Forensic Specialist, and Fraud Examiner. This expert has experience across numerous industries including agriculture, construction, manufacturing, and healthcare. He has participated in numerous seminars involving the measurement of economic damages to the legal profession, insurance industry personnel, and the private sector. He has utilized his expertise in numerous legal proceeding including a matter in which he was hired to quantify damages in a product liability matter involving agricultural growing materials purchased by a cooperative of farmers. Such experience has made him proficient in the commercial agricultural operations, agricultural cooperatives, and other farm services. He is currently a Partner at an international forensic accounting firm.

This highly qualified expert has over 45 years of experience in the field of economics. He earned his BA in economics from the State University of New York at Oneonta, and his MA and PhD in economics and finance from the University of Pennsylvania. He is active in his field through his memberships in the American Economic Association, Financial Management Association, and American Statistical Association. Additionally, he has published extensively in his field. He has formerly held high ranking positions such as the chief economist and vice president of finance at the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, the managing director of financial and economic research at IBM World Trade Corporation and the chairman of Pace University's finance department. He currently works as a consulting economist for a New York based consulting company.