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Experts at Litigation Economics specialize in providing economic analysis, valuation, and expert testimony, especially in complex litigation in the following areas:
Breach of Contract
Business Interruption Losses
Business Valuation
Employment Related Claims
Franchise Litigation
Family Law
Intellectual Property
Lost Earnings Capacity
Lost Profits
Products Liability
Since 1985, experts at Litigation Economics, LLC have provided economic consulting and litigation support to law firms with testifying experts in economics, accounting, and finance. Each person brings wide experience in providing advice regarding damages to attorneys and testimony in legal hearings. Collectively, our experienced professionals have decades of consulting services and expert testimony. We develop and present economic damages reports for plaintiffs or critique such reports for defense counsel. Credibility before judges, jurors, mediators and arbitrators is the most essential factor a Litigation Economics witness provides. The headquarters of Litigation Economics is in San Francisco, there is a second office in Connecticut, and we provide consulting services to clients throughout the US and internationally.
Managing Principal
Stanley P. Stephenson, Ph.D. Economics, has provided economic litigation services in more than 150 cases. His background includes academic, corporate, economic consulting, and government positions. He was Associate Professor of Economics and Business Administration, The Pennsylvania State University; AVP, Aetna International, Inc.; Managing Director, MESA, Inc., a New York City economic consulting firm; and. Regional Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, San Francisco Region.
Principal
Carl S. Smith, Ph.D., CPA, Professor of Accounting, University of Hartford. Dr. Smith helped value gasoline dealer operations arising from franchise dispute between ARCO and the Connecticut Gasoline Dealers Association using an excess return method to assess goodwill. His expertise is in tax, cost accounting and business valuation.
Senior Associate
Richard Cohn, former Professor of Finance, University of Hartford. Professor Cohn has an MBA from Stanford University and taught finance at MIT, Illinois, and British Columbia universities. He has extensive experience in property-casualty insurance rate hearings. Applied finance is his specialty and he has played a key role in several complex business valuation cases.
Associate
Bridget E. Robinson, MBA in Finance from University of Washington, has estimated damages in business disruption, personal injury and other cases. Her consulting experience includes merger and acquisition valuations for Fortune 500 corporations and development and implementation of an environmental costing protocol for a major sugar beet processing cooperative.
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