Economics Expert Witnesses in California
The SEAK Expert Witness Directory contains a comprehensive list of economics expert witnesses who testify, consult and provide litigation support on economics and related issues. Economics expert witnesses and consultants on this page may form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, and provide expert witness testimony at deposition and trial. The issues and subjects these economics expert witnesses testify regarding may include: Damages, Antitrust, Class Action, Class Certification, Discrimination, Economic Damages, Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Wrongful Termination, Breach Of Contract, Lost Profits, Lost Wages, Business Interruption, Economic Analysis, and Economics.
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Thomas M Roney
Thomas Roney LLC Economic Consulting
Economics, Intellectual Property
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Personal Injury Damages, Economic Damages, Business Damages, Life-care Plan Present Value Assessments, Wrongful Death, Wrongful Termination, Employment, Patents, Trademark, Copyright, Jones Act, FELA, Intellectual Property, Commercial Damages, Lost Profits, Business Valuation, Forensic Accounting
I have more than 35 years experience preparing, researching and analyzing financial and economic data and providing economic damages calculations, consulting services and expert reports in support of litigation. Expert testimony provided in hundreds of depositions, Federal and State court trials, arbitration, and before the Special Master in Victims Compensation matters.
I prepared quantitative and qualitative analyses, memos and expert reports on tort cases involving personal injury, care costs and life-care plans, wrongful-death, wrongful termination, Jones Act, FELA, intellectual property, and commercial damages. Developed financial models for firms in a variety of markets, including the telecommunications, retail, casino gambling, insurance, manufacturing, tire wholesaler, oil services, residential real estate, merchant service provider, fire suppression, financial services, courier services, trade schools and hotel industries. Vice-President of the National Association of Fore...
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Nora C Ostrofe, MBA, CEA, CVA
J.S. Held
San Francisco, California
Economics, Financial
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Economic Loss, Valuation Of Economic Loss, Valuation Of Wrongful Death, Business Interruption, Marital Dissolution, Pension Valuation, Business Valuation, Employment Laws
Professional, detailed valuation of economic loss in the following practice areas: personal injury / wrongful death (including maritime and medical malpractice); employment law (wrongful termination; discrimination; Equal Pay Act, wage and hour; class action); business interruption; and marital dissolution (including business and pension valuation). Reasonable rates.
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Philip J. Cross, Ph.D.
Class action, antitrust & economic damages expert
Kenyon Consulting LLC
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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Antonio Avalos, PhD
Economic damages expert witness
Valley Economics Associates, Inc.
Fresno, California
Economics, Financial
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economist, forensic economist, economic damages, personal injury, wrongful death, wrongful termination, loss of earnings, discrimination, expert witness, loss of household services, life care plan valuation, loss of earning capacity, economic losses, tax neutralization, medical malpractice
Dr. Avalos is a Professor of Economics at California State University, Fresno, where he has served as a faculty member since 2003. Dr. Avalos’ research and publication record relevant to forensic economics includes the following:
• Avalos, Antonio, R. Sean Alley, and Philip T. Ganderton, “Assessing Economic Damages in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation: The State of New Mexico”, Journal of Forensic Economics, 28(1-2):211-226, 2019.
• Avalos, Antonio, “General Guidelines for the Conversion of Damages Calculated in Foreign Currency: Tort Claims”, Journal of Forensic Economics 28(1):1-14, 2019.
• Avalos, Antonio and Sean Alley, “Use and Limitations of Purchasing Power Parity for the Conversion of Damages Calculated in Foreign Currency: An Updated Look”, Journal of Legal Economics 21(2): 1-25, 2015.
• Avalos, Antonio and Sean Alley, “Are Mexican Net Discount Rates Stationary? An Application for Lost Earnings Damages Involving Undocumented Workers”, Journal of Forensi...
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Michael Trousdale, PhD
Economic Damages Expert Witness
Econ One Research
Los Angeles, California
Economics, Business Damages
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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.
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Devrim Ikizler, PhD
Economic Damages Expert for Complex Litigation
IAMECON
California
Economics, Business Damages
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Antitrust, Patent Infringement, Breach of Contract, Trade Secrets, Employment, Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Loss of Earnings Capacity, ITC, Domestic Industry, Regulatory Impact, Lost Wages, Lost Profits, Market Share, Medical Negligence
In 2011 I have received my PhD in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. From 2011 to 2018, I worked as the Senior Economist to Professor Stephen Magee (White House Advisor to 4 different Presidents). Since 2015, I have been a part-time lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin (taught at the Economics Department, 12 classes, 800+ students).
Since 2018, I am the founder and principal at IAMECON. I manage a multi-disciplinary team (6 full time staff: 2 PhD, 2 MAs, BS, BA) economists, statisticians, programmers, data scientists, and mathematicians, we handle all aspects of our work in-house. My team is agile, experienced, reliable and thorough. I write my own reports (no exceptions), always deliver excellence in live testimony - see my references and testimonials.
Throughout my career as an economist, I published several economic articles in peer-reviewed journals, and my research has been awarded 4 federal research grants (totaling ~ $1.5 million between NSF and SBA)...
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Jason A Engel, CPA, CFE, CIRA, CVA, MAFF, ABV
Engel & Engel, LLP
Los Angeles, California
Accounting, Business Damages
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Fraud Investigations, Tracing of Funds, Economic Damages, Alter Ego, Fraudulent Transfers, Business Appraisal & Valuation, Economics, Bankruptcy and Insolvency, Intellectual Property, Construction Litigation, Real Estate Litigation, Employment Litigation, Business Interruption
Engel & Engel, LLP is a Los Angeles CPA firm engaged in the practice of forensic accounting for over 25 years. Mr. Engel has served as an expert witness in over 500 forensic accounting cases including expert testimony in connection with a jury award of $2.3 billion.
Mr. Engel has authored 20 research publications on the subjects of economic damages, fraudulent transfers, intellectual property, alter ego, business valuation, and employment damages.
Mr. Engel's professional credentials include those of Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA), Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), Master Analyst in Financial Forensics (MAFF) and Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV).
Mr. Engel has been engaged in the practice of forensic accounting and expert testimony for forty years including forensic experience at two of the Big 4 accounting firms. Mr. Engel has testified in federal courts, bankruptcy courts, state ...
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William G. Brandt
Brandt Forensic Economics
California
Economics
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Income Loss Calculations, Life Care Valuations, Wrongful Termination, Wrongful Death Claims, Opposing Expert Analysis, Economic Analysis, National Association of Forensic Economics, Forensic Economist, Testimony, Adverse Tax calculation, product liability, employment law litigation
Brandt Forensic Economics delivers expert economic analysis tailored to the unique aspects of your case. We focus on claims for personal injury, wrongful death, medical negligence, product liability, wrongful termination, and employment law litigation, with adverse tax calculations upon request. Life care plan valuations are presented in a ground-breaking format. Bill provides testimony and trial exhibits that are clear and concise, as proven through more than 100 trial testimonies. Please call Bill for a no-cost discussion of your case and the role he would play in presenting your case to the Jury.
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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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Dan Scheitrum, PhD
Expert Economist
LCPMD
Los Osos, California
Economics, Financial
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Economic loss in personal injury, life care planning valuations, loss of earnings, loss of earnings capacity, loss of household services, present value of future medical needs, medical malpractice, plaintiff and defense, personal injury, catastrophic injury, non-catastrophic injury
Dr. Scheitrum is a PhD Economist with over fifteen years of experience calculating economic damages for litigation. Testified at deposition, arbitration, and trial for both plaintiff and defense clients. Performs estimates of economic loss in personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, and wrongful termination. Specializes in large data analysis for class actions and antitrust disputes. Worked at various litigation consulting firms providing insight on the calculation of economic damages in hundreds of disputes in the U.S. and internationally. Currently, Dr. Scheitrum is a university professor in California.
LCPMD is sought by both plaintiff and defense attorneys nationwide for credible, defensible expert assessments and testimony for compensatory economic damages. We provide expert reports that strengthen personal cases while offering physician and non-physician options to accommodate different needs and budgets. Our services include Life Care Plans, Medical Cost Projec...
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James Christopoulos, JD, MA
Christopoulos Economics Consulting Group
Costa Mesa, California
Economics, Business Damages
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Damages, Present Value Loss, Lost Profits, Lost Earnings, Lost Income, Lost Wages, Pension Loss, Present Value Medical Care Costs, Lost Earning Capacity
I am well versed in the calculation of past and present value future economic damages for all matters such as employment litigation, business litigation, wrongful death, and personal injury, including the calculation of future medical care costs. I provide credible testimony and produce clear summary reports of relevant conclusions.
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David G. Campbell, PhD
Economic Damages, Antitrust, and Stat. Sampling
Wicomico Analytics Group LLC
California
Economics, Statistics
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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.
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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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Eric Forister, PhD
Econ One Research, Inc.
Los Angeles, California
Economics, Business Damages
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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.
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Doug Bania
IP Valuation & Damages Defamation Damages
Nevium Intellectual Property Consultants
San Diego, California
Intellectual Property, Appraisal & Valuation
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Defamation Damages, IP Valuation, Intellectual Property Damages, IP Damages, Licensing, Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets, Right of Publicity, Publicity Rights, Economics, Website Valuation, Licensing Customs & Practices, Google Analytics, Social media analysis, social media valuation, Reputational Repair, Reputational Damages
Doug Bania is the founding principal of Nevium Intellectual Property Consultants. Nevium specializes in:
IP Valuation - Valuation and financial analysis of patents, copyrights, trademarks, internet & social assets, brands, publicity rights, intangible assets and business enterprises.
IP Damages Experts - Expert testimony and damages opinions for IP infringement, defamation, licensing, marketing, business interruption and civil litigation.
IP Strategic Advisors - Strategic services to leverage IP assets and connect IP to financial performance.
Infringement Investigation - Analysis of IP infringement on websites, Google Ads, social media, SEO and online advertising.
Defamation Investigation - Quantify how viral defamatory statements spread on traditional and social media.
Reputational Damages - Quantify the cost of a reputational repair program.
Mr. Bania has been the named expert for approximately 130 cases, deposed 38 times and has provided trial testimony 10 times.
Mr. Ban...
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Stephen E. Roulac, PhD
Roulac Global
San Francisco, California
Real Estate, Economics
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RE finance/investment, Causation/liability, Damages, Consulting expert, Valuation/appraisal/analytics, Fiduciary/ ethics, Due process/diligence, Properties/markets, Cycles, Conservation easements, Housing, Financial economics, Development/building, Loans, Securitization/CMBS/RMBS, Proptech, Leases, Strate
Dr. Stephen Roulac’s background includes working as a real estate expert providing professional strategic property analytic, investment management, and advisory services to decision-makers.
Stephen Roulac has been retained as a consulting and/or testifying expert for 150+ matters, including many of the most significant real estate litigation assignments of the last several decades. Dr. Roulac and his team provide consulting advice and expert witness services to assist clients in resolving problems, including diagnosis, analysis, development of alternative solutions, and implementation assistance in negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and litigation.
Dr. Roulac and his team have assisted attorneys to successfully pursue their cases on behalf of plaintiffs, defendants and the public interest in civil, bankruptcy, and criminal matters in Municipal/Superior/Federal courts and in public hearings and specialized proceedings before government (city, county, state, federal) and legislativ...
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