We (i) calculate economic damages associated with cases including wage and hour, wrongful termination, discrimination, and failure-to-promote, and (ii) perform statistical analyses associated with cases including class certification, discrimination, and failure-to-promote.
Representative Projects
- Operate whistleblower hotlines on behalf of numerous public company and private employers. As a result of the complaints received on behalf of our clients, we have the opportunity to consult regarding the proper means of performing an investigation, and the treatment of employees facing such circumstances.
- On hundreds of occasions, calculated employment-related economic damages. Examples of the underlying allegations include:
- Wrongful termination
- Race, gender, age, sexual preference, and other unlawful discrimination
- Sexual harassment
- Retaliatory conduct by employer
- Failure-to-promote
- On numerous occasions, calculated damages and penalties associated with alleged labor code violations. In wage and hour class action lawsuits, calculated economic damages associated with companies’ alleged failures to:
- Provide meal and rest breaks
- Pay overtime
- Pay timely
- Pay wages upon ending employment
- Maintain accurate payroll records
Calculated appropriate sample size, accumulated data, created comprehensive database, and analyzed payroll, time-keeping records, and human resource information to calculate damages and penalties associated with alleged labor code violations.
- In many failure-to-promote matters, calculated the lost compensation (lost earnings and benefits) resulting from Defendants’ alleged failure-to-promote Plaintiffs in a variety of professions including law enforcement (e.g., police officers) and various other public office professions, and health professions.
- In many alleged wrongful termination matters, calculated:
- lost compensation including high net worth Plaintiffs that have relatively complex pay structures (including deferred compensation (e.g., stock options, equity, restricted stock))
- lost benefits (e.g., health (medical, dental, vision), life insurance)
- lost retirement/pensions (e.g., defined benefit plans, contribution plans), including a variety of union pension plans. Some of the more notable include:
- California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS)
- Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERS)
- International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW)
- United Steel Workers (USW)
- In an alleged discrimination case, past and future lost earnings and benefits suffered by plaintiff were calculated. To assist in establishing liability, assessed the likelihood that discrimination occurred using statistics related to the Fisher Exact test and the Chi-square test.
- Performed field observations to quantify the amount of exempt vs. non-exempt duties performed by employees who were previously classified as exempt. Conducted statistical sampling to demonstrate and quantify that the observations served as the appropriate basis for reliable conclusions.