EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION

The outcome of an employment discrimination case often depends on the quality of the expert statistical report provided to the court. Integral's experts have the training and experience necessary to perform the requisite analyses most effectively.

The Optimal Skill Set

We are Ph.D. labor economists as well as trained statisticians This combination of training is optimal. A specialization in labor economics provides the theoretical and empirical foundation required to design an effective test for employment discrimination. And possession of the doctorate is essential for two reasons. First, federal courts require the expert to have a doctorate. Second, whether or not the doctorate is legally required, for all practical purposes, it is essential. Only a doctoral program provides the depth and detail of training competent expert-witness work requires.

Over 20 Years of Courtroom Experience

Our experts also have the courtroom experience consistently high quality expert-witness work requires. They have prepared statistical analyses in connection with well over 100 employment discrimination cases. They have testified in numerous Title VII and ADEA cases in federal court and also appear frequently in state court and in administrative proceedings.

Understandable Testimony

Most important, our expert economists excel at explaining technical matters simply and clearly. A competent professional analysis is just the beginning. The expert must then explain to the court what s/he has done clearly, in plain every-day language. The expert must be a good teacher. Teaching has always been a large part of our work. As college faculty, we taught economics and statistics to under-graduate and graduate students. And today, as part of Integral's continuing legal education program, we routinely teach economics and statistics to employment law attorneys. Most have little or no background in either subject, but the evaluation forms they fill out at the end of each session always give us the highest grades for clarity.

Professional Objectivity

As important as clarity is, the expert's ability to persuade the court that the testimony presented is completely objective is just as important. In particular, the ???? of fact must believe that the expert's testimony is not biased towards the side that is paying his/her fee. We are able to accomplish this by routinely testifying for both the plaintiff and defense sides and by always using the same basic statistical methodology.

We're Ready When You Are

Finally, although our expert economists and statisticians have in the past taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, we now devote ourselves exclusively to expert-witness work. Free of classroom or research commitments, we can accommodate your schedule rather than asking you to accommodate ours.

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