Analytic Focus LLC specializes in quantitative methods applied to problems in litigation and the law, finance, and regulation. We excel at helping you formulate an issue, developing evidence or an argument based on facts, and effectively presenting an argument and communicating results. Combining expertise in economics, finance, statistics, surveys and survey methods, and information systems, we provide our clients with a broad set of interconnected skills.
We have particular expertise in:
* Antitrust
* Banking and Finance
* Business Valuation & Lost Sales
* Class Certification/Mass Tort
* Claims & Damages Forecasting
* Deceptive Sales Practices
* Discrimination & Disparity Studies
* Environmental Tort/Toxic Tort
* Insurance
* Intellectual Property
- Trademark Infringement Confusion & Dilution
- Trade Dress
- Patent Infringement
- Georgia Pacific Factors
* Labor and Employment
* Product Liability
and our senior members have testified in Federal and state court, as well as being deposed numerous times.
We've also served as experts in rebuttal on numerous occasion, commenting on research offered that is of dubious quality or not precisely accurate in its methodology or pertinance to a case.
Background
Q: Please list your professional accreditations, degrees, licenses, and certificates granted:A: Ph.D. Mathematical Statistics, The George Washington University
M.A. Economics, The University of Michigan
Q: Please list your affiliations or memberships in any professional and/or industry organizations:
A: American Statistical Association
International Association of Assessment Officers
Q: Please list any teaching or speaking experience you have had, including subject matter:
A: Teaching:
Business Statistics
Analytical Methods
Sampling Theory
Q: Have any of your accreditations ever been investigated, suspended or removed? (if yes, explain)
A: no
Q: On how many occasions have you been retained as an expert?
A: > 50
Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?
A: * Antitrust
* Banking and Finance
* Business Valuation & Lost Sales
* Class Certification Mass Tort
* Claims & Damages Forecasting
* Deceptive Sales Practices
* Discrimination & Disparity
* Environmental Tort Toxic Tort
* Insurance Reinsurance
* Intellectual Property
- Trademark Infringement
- Trade Dress
- Patent Infringement
- Dilution
* Labor and Employment
* Product Liability
Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the plaintiff?
A: ~ 50%
Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the defendant?
A: ~ 50%
Q: On how many occasions have you had your deposition taken?
A: 16
Q: When was the last time you had your deposition taken?
A: May, 2006
Q: On how many occasions have you been qualified by a court to give expert testimony?
A: 7
Q: On how many occasions have you testified as an expert in court or before an arbitrator?
A: 3
Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?
A: 10
Q: What services do you offer? (E.g.: consulting, testing, reports, site inspections etc.)
A: Consulting, surveys, data collection and data consolidation from multiple sources, analysis, forecasting, risk measurement, loss valuation, rebuttal, sampling for large audits
Q: What is your hourly rate to consult with an attorney?
A: 395
Q: What is your hourly rate to review documents?
A: Depends on level of review and which staff are doing review
Q: What is your hourly rate to provide deposition testimony?
A: 495
Q: What is your hourly rate to provide testimony at trial?
A: 495
Q: Please list any fees other than those stated above (E.g.: travel expenses, copy fees, etc.)
A: Travel, staff on hourly basis (much lower rates than mine)
