Class Certification Expert Witnesses

Los Angeles, California

Economics, Business Damages - Damages, Lost Profit, Reasonable Royalty, False Advertising, Consumer Fraud, Class Certification, Class Action, Market Power, Market Definition, Patent, Survey, Valuation

Dr. Eric Forister is an expert economist with testifying experience on market definition, market power, and damages. His expertise includes applying advanced statistical techniques to datasets, synthesizing information from documents, and designing and evaluating surveys. He focuses on relevant questions to tackle complex issues with an efficient and effective style of communication. Dr. Forister also has extensive experience consulting on issues including royalty rates, irreparable harm, sampling, survey design, common impact, and materiality. He is a Senior Economist at Econ One and can be reached for more information upon request. Learn more at www.econone.com/staff-member/eric-forister.

California

Economics, Statistics - Lost wages, Antitrust, Class certification, Lost profits, Breach of contract, Damages, Liability, Platform economics, Conjoint surveys, Health insurance, Class action, Economic damages, Discrimination, Wrongful termination, Wage and hour, Industrial espionage, Fraud detection, Employment discrimination, Statistical sampling, FLSA

Phil Cross is Kenyon Consulting’s principal and founder. He has over twenty years’ experience as an economist and statistician in academia, government and consulting. His consulting experience includes opining in large class-action litigations, high-profile arbitrations, antitrust matters, breach-of-contract matters, wage-and-hour matters and employment discrimination matters. He is widely recognized as being an effective testifier, able to break down complex economics ideas and empirical findings into plain English for judges and juries. Phil has his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, has taught at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins and the University of Melbourne and has published in top academic journals. Phil has a wide range of experience, including opining on video game distribution, health insurance provision, health-care worker markets, higher education finance, automotive supply distribution, probationary service provision, health care, financial services, energ...

California

Economics, Statistics - Damages, Antitrust, Statistical Sampling, Class Certification, Healthcare, Health Insurance, Medicare Fraud, Intellectual Property, Patent, Insurance Coverage, Securities Fraud, Environmental Disputes

David is a versatile economist who has worked in private consulting for 25+ years. He served in government as Chief Economist at the Federal Maritime Commision. He has been an Economics professor at several Southern California colleges, where he taught economic theory, econometrics, statistics, and finance. For several years he led an Antitrust Seminar in the joint Law School/Business School program at Pepperdine. David's research is well-cited; his article on Productivity Dynamics has over 1750 citations on Google Scholar. David has been retained as an economic and statistical expert in litigation matters in both U.S. District courts and state courts. He has opined in antitrust, medicare fraud, environmental, and intellectual property matters. In addition to his expert witness testimony, David has consulted for a wide variety of corporate and government clients. Notably, he served as chief statistician for the first-ever audit of the US Navy.

Los Angeles, California

Economics, Business Damages - Damages, Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Medical Malpractice, Discrimination, Employment, Antitrust, Market Power, Market Definition, Class Action, Class Certification, Economic Analysis, Econometric Analysis, Economic Consulting

Dr. Michael Trousdale is a managing director at Econ One Research with over 15 years of experience conducting and managing complex economic research. As an economic expert, Dr. Trousdale applies economic and statistical analysis to liability and damages estimation for litigation matters. He has consulted on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants across a wide array of industries and products, including professional sports, commercial real estate, steel products manufacturing, air & surface transportation, oil & gas, electricity, pharmaceuticals, radio equipment, and a variety of others.

Washington, District Of Columbia

Economics, Statistics - Lost wages, Antitrust, Class certification, Lost profits, Breach of contract, Damages, Liability, Platform economics, Conjoint surveys, Health insurance, Class action, Economic damages, Discrimination, Wrongful termination, Wage and hour, Industrial espionage, Fraud detection, Employment discrimination, Statistical sampling, FLSA

Phil Cross is Kenyon Consulting’s principal and founder. He has over twenty years’ experience as an economist and statistician in academia, government and consulting. His consulting experience includes opining in large class-action litigations, high-profile arbitrations, antitrust matters, breach-of-contract matters, wage-and-hour matters and employment discrimination matters. He is widely recognized as being an effective testifier, able to break down complex economics ideas and empirical findings into plain English for judges and juries. Phil has his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, has taught at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins and the University of Melbourne and has published in top academic journals. Phil has a wide range of experience, including opining on video game distribution, health insurance provision, health-care worker markets, higher education finance, automotive supply distribution, probationary service provision, health care, financial services, energ...

Washington, District Of Columbia

Economics, Statistics - Damages, Antitrust, Statistical Sampling, Class Certification, Healthcare, Health Insurance, Medicare Fraud, Intellectual Property, Patent, Insurance Coverage, Securities Fraud, Environmental Disputes

David is a versatile economist who has worked in private consulting for 25+ years. He served in government as Chief Economist at the Federal Maritime Commision. He has been an Economics professor at several Southern California colleges, where he taught economic theory, econometrics, statistics, and finance. For several years he led an Antitrust Seminar in the joint Law School/Business School program at Pepperdine. David's research is well-cited; his article on Productivity Dynamics has over 1750 citations on Google Scholar. David has been retained as an economic and statistical expert in litigation matters in both U.S. District courts and state courts. He has opined in antitrust, medicare fraud, environmental, and intellectual property matters. In addition to his expert witness testimony, David has consulted for a wide variety of corporate and government clients. Notably, he served as chief statistician for the first-ever audit of the US Navy.

Atlanta, Georgia

Business Damages, Technology - Economics, Econometrics, Data, Data Analytics, Big Data, Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Software, Cloud Computing, Data Science, Survey Research, Digital Advertising, Finance, Banking, Healthcare, Antitrust, Class Action, Class Certification, Contractual Disputes, Cybersecurity

Dr. Joe Sutherland is the founding director of Emory's Center for AI Learning, a professor in Emory’s Department of Quantitative Theory & Methods, associate faculty at the Empathetic AI for Health Institute at Emory Healthcare, principal investigator of the Emory branch of the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium, and fellow of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Public Policy, and Government at Washington University in St. Louis. His work has been featured on FOX 5 Good Day Atlanta, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Forbes, Georgia Trend, Government Technology, MIT Sloan Management Review, and many other venues. His professional background includes leadership service at The White House, Cisco, Amazon, and as CEO of an AI startup. His research exploring the utilization of machine learning and AI in congressional lawmaking, state policy leadership, and development economics is published in top peer-reviewed journals. He holds patents for systems that manage and analyze petabyte-level da...

Illinois

Economics, Statistics - Lost wages, Antitrust, Class certification, Lost profits, Breach of contract, Damages, Liability, Platform economics, Conjoint surveys, Health insurance, Class action, Economic damages, Discrimination, Wrongful termination, Wage and hour, Industrial espionage, Fraud detection, Employment discrimination, Statistical sampling, FLSA

Phil Cross is Kenyon Consulting’s principal and founder. He has over twenty years’ experience as an economist and statistician in academia, government and consulting. His consulting experience includes opining in large class-action litigations, high-profile arbitrations, antitrust matters, breach-of-contract matters, wage-and-hour matters and employment discrimination matters. He is widely recognized as being an effective testifier, able to break down complex economics ideas and empirical findings into plain English for judges and juries. Phil has his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, has taught at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins and the University of Melbourne and has published in top academic journals. Phil has a wide range of experience, including opining on video game distribution, health insurance provision, health-care worker markets, higher education finance, automotive supply distribution, probationary service provision, health care, financial services, energ...

Burlington, Massachusetts

Marketing, Advertising - Conjoint Analysis, Class Action, Class Action Lawsuits, Class Action Damage Models, Class Action Litigation, Class Certification, Economic Damages, Market Research, Marketing, Survey Design, Survey Research, Damage Calculations, Damages

Patricia Yanes serves as an expert witness for civil litigation, with a specialty in on conjoint analysis and discrete-choice methodologies for class actions. She has led domestic and international market research engagements for over a decade as a Principal at Applied Marketing Science, Inc. (AMS). Her litigation research experience includes supporting affiliated academic experts in the design and execution of high-stakes consumer litigation, and in preparing rebuttals. She has managed projects with testifying experts on cases related to deceptive advertising, class actions, patent infringement and more. Patty is a master of conjoint analysis, maximum-difference scaling (MaxDiff), total unduplicated reach and frequency (TURF), and choice-modeling techniques. Patty is a member of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), the Insights Association (IA), and Women in Research (WIRe). She has gu...

New York

Economics, Statistics - Lost wages, Antitrust, Class certification, Lost profits, Breach of contract, Damages, Liability, Platform economics, Conjoint surveys, Health insurance, Class action, Economic damages, Discrimination, Wrongful termination, Wage and hour, Industrial espionage, Fraud detection, Employment discrimination, Statistical sampling, FLSA

Phil Cross is Kenyon Consulting’s principal and founder. He has over twenty years’ experience as an economist and statistician in academia, government and consulting. His consulting experience includes opining in large class-action litigations, high-profile arbitrations, antitrust matters, breach-of-contract matters, wage-and-hour matters and employment discrimination matters. He is widely recognized as being an effective testifier, able to break down complex economics ideas and empirical findings into plain English for judges and juries. Phil has his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, has taught at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins and the University of Melbourne and has published in top academic journals. Phil has a wide range of experience, including opining on video game distribution, health insurance provision, health-care worker markets, higher education finance, automotive supply distribution, probationary service provision, health care, financial services, energ...

Kaysville, Utah

Economics, Business Damages - Forensic Economist, Economic Damages, Employment Litigation, Business Interruption, Class Action Damages, Labor Economics, Market Research, Statistical Analysis, Econometric Modeling, Personal Injury, Lost Earnings, Wrongful Death, Lost Profits, Commercial Damages, Expert Testimony, Multi-Plaintiff Damages, Class Certification

Dr. Wade C. Roberts is a senior forensic economist and founder of Roberts Forensics with more than fifteen years of experience providing economic damages analysis, valuation, statistical modeling, and expert testimony in litigation across the United States. He has been retained in over 100 cases and has authored more than one hundred expert reports involving personal injury, wrongful death, employment litigation, commercial disputes, business interruption, lost profits, and class-action matters. He has testified in jury trials, bench trials, and arbitration proceedings and has never been excluded under Daubert. Dr. Roberts specializes in economic damages assessment, wage-loss and earnings-capacity evaluations, class-wide economic modeling, multi-plaintiff damages analysis, and complex statistical and econometric methods. His analytical strengths include regression analysis, forecasting, labor-market modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, large-dataset evaluation, and price-premium/conjo...