Employment

Contact: Dr. Robert Trout (robert@litecon.com)

Lit.Econ LLP consultants have testified in many employment cases, and performed economic analyses in hundreds of these cases. Issues have ranged from age, race and sex discrimination involving statistical analysis to show proof of discrimination, to estimating damages for a variety of wrongful termination cases. Our consultants have published many articles in the area of using statistical analysis to analyze discrimination, and to determine the likely remaining job life of an employee. We have developed the Conditional Probability of Employment Model (CPEA) used by some forensic economists to measure remaining job life. A brief list of cases where testimony was provided follows.

Salazar et. al. v. La Curacao (Los Angeles County)  Testified about economic damages for a class of employees who were deprived of lunch breaks and underpaid for overtime work.

Evans v. Universal (Los Angeles County)  Testified about the alleged economic losses of a movie production employee who was not rehired for the next television series.

Stevens v. Salesforce.com (Los Angeles County).  Estimated economic damages for a class of employees who were deprived of payment for overtime hours and non-payment for missed lunch breaks and other breaks.

Falck v. Tenet Hospitals (Orange County) Analyzed overtime rates and payments in a class action case involving alleged underpayment of nurses at multiple Tenet owned hospitals.

Abramo v. Ingram Micro (Orange County) Testified about the economic value of certain employment related stock options in a public company

Hendricks v. Blue Sky (San Diego County) Testified about the value of certain corporate options in an emploment litigation case

Hartigan v. Liberty Mutual (Boston, MA) Prepared an economic loss report concerning the probable economic losses of an attorney for an insurance company.

Rodriguez v. Chino Valley School District, (Riverside County) Testified about the economic losses of a district employee who claimed she had suffered from age discrimination.

Jennifer Marilley v. Frisbee Management (Orange County) Quantified the profits of the employer in a breach of fiduciary duty matter.

Broussard v. City of San Jose (Santa Clara County). Testified about the economic losses claimed by five fire fighters in a race discrimination case.

McGuire v. Rohr (San Diego County) Testified about losses claimed by a terminated employee of Rohr, Corp.

Taylor v. Rainbow Municipal Water District (San Diego County). Testified about the economic losses claimed by a terminated employee of the Rainbow MWD.

Hancock v. Tiffany (Los Angeles County) Testified about the economic losses sustained by an employee in a breach of contract case, including wrongful termination.

Ishaq v. Nion (Los Angeles County). Testified about the economic losses of wrongfully terminated franchisee in a breach of contract case.

Weeks v. Baker & McKenzie (San Francisco). Testified about the value of a law firm in a sexual harassment and wrongful termination case.

Spring Group v. Jacobs (Maricopa Cty, AZ) Testified about the economic losses resulting from a taking of employees and clients by a former manager of the plaintiff company.

Michael Smits v. Jim Lukens (Los Angeles County) Quantified the value of the 10% minority interest of a shareholder in a wrongful termination matter.

Showalter v. General Dynamics (Federal District Court,San Diego) Testified about the statistical probability of age discrimination in an employment case alleging age discrimination by General Dynamics.

Bingham v. Rohr (San Diego County) Testified about the economic losses of a terminated employee.

Riso/Beren v. Mendix (Los Angeles County) Testified about the economic losses of a terminated franchisee.

Church v. Banasch (San Diego County). Testified about the economic losses of a terminated employee.

Pollock v. Princess Cruises (Los Angeles County). Testified about economic losses claimed by a terminated employee.

Boyle v. Hertz-Penske (Alameda County) Testified about the lack of statistical proof of age discrimination, and on economic losses incurred by a terminated employee.

Crusinbery v. Systematics (Federal District Court, Wichita, KA) Prepared a statistical analysis, using a logistic regression model, that supported a claim of age discrimination.

Farr v. Hewlett Packard (Santa Clara County). Testified about the economic losses of a terminated employee.

Womack v. San Francisco (San Francisco County). Testified about the economic losses of a city employee claiming wrongful termination.

Behrens v. US Army (Federal District Court San Jose) Testified about discrimination in promotions and loss of salary.

Antman v. Taylor Made (Santa Cruz County). Testified about the economic losses of a wrongfully terminated employee.

Dawson v. United Airlines (San Francisco County) Testified about discrimination in promotions for older employees in certain job classifications for United Airlines.

Stache v. Bricklayers Union (Federal District Court, Los Angeles) Testified about discrimination in promotions and salaries in a gender discrimination case.

Curry v. Prudential (Contra Costa County) Testified about the effect of a termination of an employee on her earnings capacity in a wrongful termination case.

Courville v. Oceanroutes (Santa Clara County) Testified on the business reasons, including a decline in the overall market for the firm's services, for terminating an employee in a wrongful termination case.

Napoli v. Hewlett Packard (Santa Clara County). Testified about the economic losses of a terminated employee.

Judd v. Permanente (Santa Clara County). Testified about the economic losses of a terminated physician in a breach of contract case.