Damages at Trial

Damages at Trial:  How best to prepare or refute the damages assessment.  This program will focus on building a successful damages strategy in both class and individual employment cases.  Prevailing at trial starts early in the case, explain defense counsel Lisa Brown and economist Dr. Andrew Cook.

Topics:
A Primer on Economic damages
                - What are economic damages
                - Elements of economic damage analyses
                - How economic damages are calculated
                - What is mitigation
                - How assumptions differ between plaintiff and defense
Initial defense steps
                - Venue changes – do venues differ from a damages assessment?
Discovery
                - Discussion of documents, data, etc. useful for defense of claim and for damage assessment
                - Including relevant information to gather for economic damages, mitigation, and liability expert
                - Is an expert (economic/mitigation) useful – typically only as rebuttal
                - Is an employment and/or statistical expert useful – again, typically only as rebuttal
Deposition of Named Plaintiff(s)
                - Discussion of information trying to obtain to help in defense of claim
                - Including obtaining relevant information for damages, mitigation, liability, etc.

Deposition of additional relevant individuals
                - Discussion of information trying to obtain to help in defense of claim
                - Including obtaining relevant information for damages, mitigation, liability, etc.
Mediation
Trial Prep/Trial

Faculty:
Dr. Cook is a Director in the Economic Consulting Practice with The Claro Group and is based in Los Angeles.  He is a labor economist with experience in advanced quantitative methods, statistical studies, and econometric modeling.

Lisa Brown is a founding partner of Grube Brown & Geidt LLP, a defense employment boutique based in San Francisco.  Lisa splits her time between San Francisco and Los Angeles, representing clients in both Northern and Southern California.  Her practice focuses on complex employment litigation, wage and hour class actions, and representative actions under the California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA).  Lisa is also an experienced trial attorney who has second-chaired a number of jury trials and first-chaired administrative proceedings.

This webinar begins at 10:00 am PDT and concludes at 11:30 am.