Wage And Hour Expert Witnesses
Wage and hour expert witnesses and consultants listed here may be able to form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, provide expert witness testimony at deposition and/or trial as or serve as consulting (non-testifying) experts on wage and hour. The wage and hour expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Economics, Employment, Human Resources, Immigration, and Statistics.
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Shirin Forootan, Esq.
Human Resources/Workplace Investigations Attorney
Forootan Law Corp.
Newport Beach, California
Human Resources, Employment
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Workplace Investigations, Disability Accommodations, Workplace Policies, Wage and Hour, Harassment, Retaliation, Discrimination, Leaves of Absence, Wrongful Termination, Pregnancy Accommodation
Shirin Forootan is the Managing Attorney at Forootan Law Corp., where she provides a wide variety of services related to employment law, including litigation (both sides), workplace investigations, advice & counsel, workforce training, and expert witness testimony. She brings to the table over seventeen years of experience practicing law in Orange County, where she has had the privilege of litigating cases at large, medium, and small law firms, on both the defense and plaintiff’s side.
Ms. Forootan is well-versed in California employment laws, particularly claims for harassment, discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, and wage disputes.
Ms. Forootan commenced her career at Latham & Watkins LLP after earning her law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. She earned her Bachelor degrees in both Communications and Law & Society from the University of California, San Diego, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude.
Ms. Forootan routi...
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Ramona Powell, SPHR
Human Resources Expert Witness - C-Suite Executive
exPRt HR LLC
San Marcos, California
Employment, Human Resources
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Human Resources, Discrimination, ADA Accommodation, Disability Discrimination, Talent Acquisition, Retaliation, FEHA protections, Constructive Termination, Wrongful termination, Worker's Compensation, Wage and Hour, Employment discrimination, Leave protection and discrimination, Whistleblower
With years of successful experience working as an HR Expert Witness, exPRt HR provides authoritative analysis and testimony in cases involving employment practices, discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, workplace harassment and more. At exPRt HR, we’re passionate about offering accurate, unbiased testimonies. Legal professionals appreciate our proven ability to provide clear and concise opinions in cases covering a wide variety of topics.
We don’t just provide analysis and reports, we also help unravel the complexities of HR practices within a case, whether for the Plaintiff or the Defense.
Thorough case analysis by a highly skilled HR professional, Expert guidance in the nuances of HR practices, exceptional, compelling, unbiased HR testimonies. We provide case analysis, discovery review, expert witness reports, depositions, and trial testimony.
exPRt HR thoroughly reviews all discovery, including deposition transcripts and related exhibits to provide compelling repo...
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Philip J. Cross, Ph.D.
Class action, antitrust & economic damages expert
Kenyon Consulting LLC
California
Economics, Statistics
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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, Lanham Act, Defamation, Statistical sampling, FLSA
Phil Cross is Kenyon Consulting’s principal and founder. He has over twenty-five 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 economic 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, mining, probationary service provision, health care, financial se...
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Nicole Liska, M.A. (Economics)
Economic damages expert witness
Fulcrum Financial Inquiry LLP
Los Angeles , California
Economics, Employment
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economic damages, personal injury, wrongful death, wrongful termination, discrimination, medical malpractice, product liability, lost earnings, loss of income, life care plan present value, present value medical care costs, pension Loss, wage and hour, unpaid overtime, meal breaks, false advertising, breach of contract, class action
Ms. Liska specializes in applied economic and statistical modeling, with over 25 years of experience on a diversity of cases across industries. She has extensive experience addressing economic damages, most often in the areas of (i) personal injury/wrongful death, (ii) employment-related cases (e.g., wrongful termination, discrimination) (iii) analyses to address class action claims (e.g., wage and hour, false advertising, statistical sampling), and (iv) commercial claims (e.g., breach of contract). She has provided economic and financial analyses on these matters by combining sophisticated economic and statistical techniques.
Ms. Liska has testified as an expert witness in federal and state courts, arbitration, and deposition.
She also regularly collaborates with others at her firm, Fulcrum Financial Inquiry, in complex cases where expertise across different areas is required to address needs for forensic accounting, fraud investigation and business valuation. When appropri...
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Philip J. Cross, Ph.D.
Class action, antitrust & economic damages expert
Kenyon Consulting LLC
Washington, District Of Columbia
Economics, Statistics
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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, Lanham Act, Defamation, Statistical sampling, FLSA
Phil Cross is Kenyon Consulting’s principal and founder. He has over twenty-five 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 economic 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, mining, probationary service provision, health care, financial se...
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Megan Todd, PhD
Western Research Systems LLC
Ennis, Montana
Economics, Employment
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Wage and Hour, Class Action, Unpaid Overtime, Discrimination, Wrongful Termination, Compensation, Economic Loss, Economic Damages, Breach of Contract, Lost Income, Meal Breaks, Employment Discrimination, Pay Equity, False Advertising
Dr. Megan Fasules Todd is a skilled economist with expertise spanning both consumer class actions and labor and employment matters. She has extensive experience analyzing economic issues in matters involving deceptive business practices, consumer overcharges, and damages estimation, as well as disputes related to pay equity, discrimination, wage and hour violations, and labor negotiations. Her deep knowledge of economic analysis and methods has helped clients navigate complex issues, including evaluating surveys and samples, cost-benefit analysis, economic impacts, hypothesis testing, and regressions.
Her multidisciplinary background extends to health economics, bankruptcy, and public economics, providing an invaluable perspective to the work she does. With a passion for applying economic theory to real-world issues, Dr. Todd has established herself as trusted expert and consultant for businesses, legal teams, and organizations.
Dr. Todd earned her B.A. in Mathematics and Economic...
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Kalen Fraser
Wage Hour and H-2A/H-2B Guestworker Programs
The Labor Brain Inc.
Cashmere , Washington
Employment, Immigration
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H-2A, H-2B, H2A, H2B, Guestworker, MSPA, Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, FLSA, Fair Labor Standards Act, H2-A, H2-B, Visa workers, visa programs, ag employment, Department of Labor investigations, labor audits, civil money penalties, back wages, DOL, wage and hour
www.laborbrain.com
Ms. Fraser graduated from Northwestern University and is a former U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Investigator and the founder of The Labor Brain Inc., a consulting firm specializing in guestworker labor compliance. She provides insightful, accurate, and practical analysis of the enforcement of the H-2A and H-2B guest worker programs, the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA), and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), enabling clients and their counsel to make informed decisions in complex employment cases.
Ms. Fraser has investigated or audited hundreds of employers for federal labor law compliance, trained fellow investigators on H-2A and H-2B enforcement, and served as a third-party monitor approved by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. She has created the nation’s first online H-2A and H-2B employer training programs, provided technical assistance to attorneys and CPAs nationwide, and conducted compliance aud...