Economics Expert Witness

EDUCATION

1983 Completed all course work towards a Doctorate in Economics, Washington State University (ABD,). Fields of specialization included Labor Economics and Industrial Organization.

1980 Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Cum Laude, Washington State University

PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

More than fifteen years experience preparing and analyzing financial and economic data and providing economic damages calculations, consulting services and reports in support of litigation. Expert testimony provided in deposition, court, mediation, and arbitration and before the Special Master in Victims Compensation matters.

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.

Prepared statistical analyses of employer liability in employment practices on the basis of race, sex and age and testified in arbitration on evidence of statistical discrimination.

Developed forecasts, competitive analyses and financial models for firms in a variety of industries, including the telecommunications, retail, casino gambling, insurance, manufacturing, oil services and hotel industries.

Analyzed, created and maintained large document/image and relational databases in support of complex litigation

Provided business-development, client management, and expert retention and supervision services.

Participated in forensic audits, statistical sampling, strategic evaluations and other projects in a multidisciplinary team environment involving accountants, attorneys, economists and finance experts. Ten years of university and college teaching experience.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Economic Consulting
2003- present President, providing economic consulting services and expert testimony in personal-injury, wrongful-death, commercial litigation and employment matters

2002 - 2003 Senior Economist at a Center for Forensic Economic Studies, where he concentrated on the analysis of damages in personal-injury, wrongful-death and wrongful-termination matters and was head of the Dallas office

2000 - 2002 In-house consultant at Bickel & Brewer, a Dallas/New York litigation firm specializing in complex commercial, corporate, environmental, hospitality, gaming, construction and other business torts

1999 - 2000 Forensic economist with the Litigation Support and Consulting Group of Grant Thornton, LLP, a nationwide accounting and consulting firm, providing economic consulting and expert testimony in commercial-damages cases

1987 - 1997 Senior research economist for Formuzis, Pickersgill and Hunt, Inc., economic consultants, providing economic consulting services, damages calculations and expert testimony in personal-injury, wrongful-death and wrongful-termination matters

Economist
1982 Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics, Consumer Protections Agency Provided economic research, analysis and SAS computer assistance for a nationwide study of generic-drug-substitution laws and their impact on retail prescription drug pricing, during a graduate internship

1980-1983 Research assistant, Washington State University, providing research and analysis on a variety of applied and theoretical projects, including economic forecasting, voting behavior, migration and crop production.

Analyst
1998 - 1999 Securitization analyst, National Realty Funding, LP (currently a division of Key Bank), providing analysis, reporting and data management services to the conduit-loan-securitization department for all commercial properties Teaching

1983 - 1994 Lecturer, teaching courses in Principles of Economics, Intermediate Macro and Micro Economic Theory at California State University, Washington State University and California community colleges

Insurance
2005, Licensed Life and Health Insurance Agent

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

National Association of Forensic Economists American Economic Association Tarrant County Bar Association, Associate Member

COURT TESTIMONY

Available upon request

PUBLICATIONS

Available upon request

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