Employment Expert Witnesses

What is an employment expert witness?

Employment expert witnesses typically have background and expertise in employment law, vocational rehabilitation, and/or human resource management. Economic experts specializing in economic loss, earning capacity, and other financial issues, and could be called in to provide economic damage calculation support. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, the attorney team may request an employment specialist that has prior expert witness testimony experience.

What types of cases require an employment expert witness?

There are several organizations that oversee labor law and employment law issues, overseen by the US Department of Labor (USDOL). The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing employment laws regarding discrimination against an applicant or employee due to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) sets standards for safe and healthy work conditions. Employment expert witness candidates can assist in matters related to discrimination and workplace safety.

Employment expert witness case examples

Supporting the plaintiff or defendant, Cahn Litigation Services has many years of experience identifying candidates to provide expert witness services for employment issues. Example employment cases that Cahn Litigation has sourced expert witnesses for include:

• wrongful termination
• sexual harassment
• employment discrimination
• workplace violence
• life care planning
• Family and Medical Leave Act(FMLA)
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• vocational assessment and job analysis
• social security
• personal injury
• workers’ compensation
• labor market, and
• workplace investigations.

What litigation support work might an employment expert witness be expected to perform?

Expert witness services by an employment specialist could include records review, research and authoring expert reports, vocational expert opinion testimony, depositions, and expert testimony in court. In addition, a law firm may seek an employment or human resources expert for pre-litigation consulting work.

Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for an employment expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.

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Employment Expert Witness - Representative Bios

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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Employment experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Employment landscape.

• Expert Witness #249110

  This expert focuses on employment law and with the policies and practices that this body of law requires. This expert has testified before the EEOC Commissioners on Employment Best Practices and has contributed to a Practice Guide on Employment Litigation, used widely by attorneys and jurists. This expert provides consulting and advice on executive employment agreements, non-compete and trade secret agreements, hiring and firing practices, and corporate/employer compliance. This expert is a frequent presenter at legal and industry conferences, and has experience as an expert witness.

  
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• Expert Witness #255055

  This expert holds a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and serves as associate professor of management a Business College. Specializing in adverse impact analysis and validating employment selection procedures, this expert has worked for Fortune 100 companies and government organizations where this expert provided human resource solutions for identifying and developing talent. This expert has provided HR solutions for a diverse range of occupations and industries including public safety, health care, transportation, skilled trades, clerical, management, and various other blue and white collar jobs. This expert has extensive experience developing minimum qualifications, selection/promotional examinations, including selection procedures for positions under Federal Consent Decree. This expert's selection systems have met the legal and professional scrutiny of the Department of Justice, plaintiff attorneys, and renowned Industrial/Organizational Psychologists, and this expert has experience providing litigation support. This expert has used expertise to:

  -  Serve as an expert witness in federal courts.

  -  Develop, validate, and defend selection procedures for a defendant in federal court, ultimately bringing an end to the longest-running employment discrimination case and consent decree in U.S. history.

  -  Testify in federal court for plaintiffs in the first age discrimination case in U.S. history that was based on disparate impact in employment selection.

  -  Serve as amicus curiae to the U.S. Supreme Court.

  This expert has presented, published, and reviewed research in the areas of selection, performance management, career development, diversity and training. This expert is an active member of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

  
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• Expert Witness #263957

  This expert holds a PhD in Economics and is President and Founder of a consultancy specializing in economic damages and loss analysis for civil litigation matters. This expert regularly provides economic reports and advice to both plaintiff and defense attorneys on cases that involve employment disputes and lost profits from business cases.

  As a trained economist with quantitative and technical skills grounded in scientific theory, this expert helps juries understand how to value and analyze earning potential or calculate losses based on a set of variables unique to each case. This expert has provided economic and statistical analysis of damages for plaintiffs and defendants in areas such as:

  • Loss of business profits
    • Projection of “but for” profits that would have occurred but for claimed tort
    • Where warranted, adjustment of past profits to account for true economic depreciation of business assets
    • Past loss and present value of future loss
    • Calculations relevant to punitive damages
  • Employment discrimination, wages and hours
    • Statistical analysis of employment discrimination claims
    • Loss of present value of future earning capacity
    • Loss of back pay and front pay, including fringe benefits
    • Analysis regarding class actions as well as individual plaintiffs
  • Wrongful death
  • Personal injury

  In addition, this expert is a tenured Associate Professor teaching Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and related Economic Theory and an active member of the National Association of Forensic Economics and the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA).

  
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• Expert Witness #260108

  This expert is an expert in ADA employment and ADA accommodations and modifications. This expert is also an expert in occupational determinations. This expert's Master's Degree is in Rehabilitation counseling and this expert has been a Committee Co-Chair for a Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities. This expert has significant experience as an expert witness serving plaintiffs in disability and ADA matters where employment matters are at issue.

  
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• Expert Witness #259170

  This expert has served as a testifying expert in 17 wrongful termination / employment matters and serves as Managing Director of a firm. This expert holds a doctorate in economics and has focused on consulting and forensic economics for many. This expert is well-published with numerous journal articles and book chapters and serves as an Adjunct Professor.

  
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• Expert Witness #250880

  This expert holds an MA and ABD in Economics and serves as Principal and Senior Economist for a highly successful consultancy. This expert has worked extensively on forensic economics cases involving employment law, valuation, personal injury, and wrongful death. This expert has participated in several cases in which this expert and colleagues have valued the compensation of various doctors, and in some cases, the progression of their careers through medical school, the residency program, etc. This expert is familiar with the compensation packages offered to doctors including those packages that provide incentive pay. This expert is also very familiar with the statistical data available regarding compensation for doctors (e.g., the Physicians' Compensation Survey, etc.). This expert spent several years teaching economics at multiple colleges. Teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, this expert was an award-winning educator, receiving Professor of the Year Award two years in a row. This expert's areas of expertise include money, banking and financial markets, corporate finance, and government and business. This expert has lectured on consumer safety, measuring the impact of positive and negative externalities, and evaluating market and government responses to these externalities. This expert is a member of the Eastern Economic Association and the American Monetary Institute. This expert has played and will continue to play a critical role in expanding the group's commercial damages business by integrating considerable knowledge of valuation and political economy into the existing portfolio of comprehensive services offered by the firm.

  
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• Expert Witness #255955

  For many years, this expert has delivered consulting services and expert testimony in commercial litigation matters concerning economic, financial, and business issues. While this expert is primarily focused on the calculation of economic damages, this expert has also assessed liability and provided non-litigation consulting services. As a consultant in a variety of complex litigation matters, this expert has advised on issues involving intellectual property disputes, breach of contract, predatory pricing and buying, antitrust monopolization, personal injury, and employment disputes. This expert's experience spans industries such as semiconductors, computers, consumer products and financial services, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. This expert has been the designated expert witness or non-litigation project leader in more than 70 matters, including cases involving intellectual property (patent infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, trademark infringement, and copyright infringement), breach of contract, class actions, personal injury, employment disputes, and consulting on reasonable license terms (non-litigation). This expert has provided sworn testimony eight times at deposition, three times at arbitration, at trial in state court, and three times at trial in U.S. District Court.

  
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• Expert Witness #249317

  This expert specializes in Title IX campus investigations, expert witness work, workplace coaching for employees and supervisors and conflict resolution training. This expert is a Title IX hearing officer and trained mediator through a prestigious university, a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources, and a certified EEOC investigator. This expert is an experienced investigator in Title IX assault claims, and a founding member of a training firm for Title IX investigations. This expert is experienced in testifying regarding completed investigations. This expert also provides hearing officer and mediation services, as well as advice and counseling regarding employment matters. This expert provides consulting regarding optimal management practices, including one-on-one executive coaching.

  In addition, this expert conducts workplace investigations into claims of misconduct, harassment, discrimination, retaliation and claims of improper activities. This expert is experienced in conducting Internal Affairs investigations, and those involving the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act and the Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights. This expert is also an experienced and effective trainer, and provides training to all levels of management on a variety of legal issues, including sexual harassment and discrimination prevention. This expert has provided in-house training to staff investigators regarding how to conduct effective investigations that focus on ensuring that internal reviews are fair and thorough, as required by law. This expert's training is consistently rated excellent and focuses on best practices and practical approaches and solutions. This expert has written online training courses in the areas of sexual harassment prevention and best employment practices.

  This expert has served as Counsel to a major university where this expert served as an active member and collaborated on a variety of campus team projects and standing committees, including the Ethics Advisory Committee, the Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Case Management Team, and the Student Crisis Response Team. This expert provided direction regarding the proper administration of personnel actions, corrective action and progressive discipline, up to and including dismissals. This expert has served as counsel to the statewide ethics watchdog, a state Fair Political Practices Commission, where this expert provided continuing legal education training for attorneys statewide, and ethics training to state employees as mandated by state law. This expert wrote formal advice letters, drafted regulations and advised the Commission on a variety of legal matters. In addition, this expert litigated in state and federal courts.

  
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• Expert Witness #251192

  This executive compensation expert has globally recognized expertise in executive compensation, incentive compensation, equity compensation, and employment agreements, and has provided analysis in a variety of legal cases.

  This expert has supported both defendants and plaintiffs, including matters involving corporate entities, classes, and individual executives.

  
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• Expert Witness #258534

  This damages and employment expert holds FCAS and MAAA credentials and has expertise in economics, finance, and actuarial science. This expert has extensive testifying and consulting experience, has led international teams on large consulting engagements, and has been retained and testified as an expert regarding economic damages.

  This expert has presented and lectured at prestigious and well-regarded universities throughout the country. This expert has handled hundreds of lost wage and benefit cases, including matters involving situations where realizing gainful employment has been hindered. This expert has conducted wage loss analyses for children and adults across a variety of occupations and industries, from sole proprietorships to unions.

  This expert also has extensive experience determining economic damages associated with wrongful termination, including whistleblower litigation related to wrongful termination.

  
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• Expert Witness #264815

  This heavy machinery expert specializes in safety issues involving heavy equipment operation, including forklifts and cranes, as well as commercial vehicles. This expert has past employment experience with equipment rental companies and has testified on many occasions.

  
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• Expert Witness #271012

  This ADA accommodations expert has experience in employment regulation compliance, including reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities under the ADA, medical leave management, and physical accommodation in the workplace. This expert holds a leadership role at a consultancy that assists employers and attorneys in navigating employment issues.

  This expert has worked closely with clients to establish and maintain compliance with federal and state employment legislation, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Related services include Return to Work (RTW) programs, modified and alternative work assessments, and the development of essential function job analyses.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #274674

  This wrongful termination damages expert is an economics professor who has been retained as an economics expert for plaintiffs and defendants many times in employment cases.

  This expert's approach is to calculate economic losses by comparing the plaintiff's earnings and employment benefits without the discrimination or before the termination with any subsequent or replacement earnings and employment benefits with the discrimination or after the termination. The pecuniary value of the difference is the economic loss.

  The elements that must be considered in such an analysis include the appropriate level of earning capacity without and with the discrimination, the value of employment benefits without and with the discrimination, wage growth and price inflation, worklife expectancy, whether mitigation from collateral sources of income and benefits should be incorporated, discounting future losses to present value, pre-judgment interest, and adjustments for differential tax treatment between a damages award and the taxes that would have been paid on the earnings.

  This expert has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed economics journals on the methodologies used when calculating economic losses. Research by this expert has been cited by prominent business and national news outlets.

  
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• Expert Witness #277620

  This executive compensation expert has held senior leadership and co-founder roles at an executive compensation consultancy and has over 25 years of experience in executive compensation and management effectiveness, helping boards develop and implement solutions that produce optimal business results. Prior to advising boards of large public companies, this expert served as a senior HR executive and held roles leading compensation, HR planning and strategy, and management development for several other major companies. This expert also formed a firm helping companies address executive talent strategies, including executive pay and succession, typically in the context of mergers and acquisitions.

  This expert assists boards in translating key strategic initiatives into actionable executive employment arrangements and believes that executive pay and succession decisions should be an extension of the underlying business strategy, not a discrete administrative practice. Areas of expertise include executive compensation practices, governance and compensation vehicles such as equity and profits interests, terms of executive employment and termination protections and features, incentives, and executive total compensation levels, including equity and non-cash benefits.

  This expert has served as an expert witness on executive pay issues, contributed to the national debate on executive compensation as it pertains to disclosure and valuation of executive equity awards, and served as an advisor to a senior federal financial official. This expert has spoken at numerous industry events and forums hosted by professional organizations in banking, quality and productivity, and compensation. This expert holds a BA in Business and a Masters in Labor and Industrial Relations.

  
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• Expert Witness #281709

  This expert earned a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics and is an expert in agricultural economics with a specialty in employment disputes, large data & statistics, and antitrust. This expert has published twenty-six peer-reviewed publications in such journals as the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Economic Letters, and the Journal of Law and the Biosciences, and has had research published in national newspapers and magazines.

  This expert is an expert economist with an extensive background in litigation having been involved in litigation consulting in various forms for over fifteen years. This expert has testified in agricultural, employment, and business interruption matters.

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• Expert Witness #284441

  This damages expert has served as an expert witness in many employment law cases involving lost earning capacity, including matters involving pension loss.

  This expert has also published a peer-reviewed article in a legal journal on the treatment of pensions under the collateral source rule.

  
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• Expert Witness #287759

  This wage and hour expert has over 30 years of experience applying economic, financial, and statistical consulting in employment litigation, including damages claims in wrongful termination, employment discrimination, and wage and hour litigation matters.

  This expert has also applied advanced statistical sampling methods in litigation as both a testifying expert and consultant.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #288838

  This psychological injury expert is a licensed Clinical Psychologist with over 30 years' experience as a practicing psychologist and evaluator for civil and criminal cases, and previously served as an adjunct professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at a medical university.

  This expert has lectured extensively on psychological injury claims, including those arising in employment litigation, and has authored multiple chapters in two editions of a book on mental and emotional injury claims in employment litigation.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #299086

  This psychiatry expert is a triple board-certified forensic psychiatrist who has completed thousands of IMEs over many years of practice.

  This expert has been retained in over 1,000 civil cases spanning employment, disability, sexual abuse and harassment, and personal injury.

  
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• Expert Witness #299931

  This employment practices expert is an attorney with SHRM-SCP and AWI-CH credentials and is the principal at a human resources consultancy specializing in employment law and practices. This expert has experience performing investigations involving workplace accommodation, performance, discipline, and termination issues.

  This expert has participated in speaking engagements and television appearances and has testified on disability accommodation. This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #300596

  This economic damages expert holds a PhD and is a labor economist experienced in analyzing levels of executive compensation.

  This expert provides expert witness consulting in labor and employment disputes, litigation and arbitration matters, regulatory audits, and proactive company reviews. This expert has experience preparing statistical analyses and damage calculations involving allegations of employment discrimination related to employer actions such as hiring, promotion, termination, and compensation, as well as executive compensation, breach of employment contract, personal injury and wrongful death, and wage and hour issues.

  This expert frequently presents to professional organizations on economic, financial, and statistical analyses.

  
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• Expert Witness #305357

  This industrial-organizational psychology expert holds an MBA, MLS, PhD, and ABPP credential and has held senior academic leadership roles at a well-regarded professional school and within a public university system. This expert has served as a senior manager, consultant, and expert witness in employment, staffing, and human resources management for over two decades. This expert specializes in Human Resources, workplace investigations, leadership, staffing industry management practices, training, employment discrimination involving gender, age, race, and disability, and sexual harassment.

  This expert has had hundreds of retentions and depositions and has testified at trial as an expert in employment practices over 50 times, for both plaintiffs and defendants.

  
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