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Vince O'Brien, Managing Partner  resume

Vincent E. O'Brien is a leading expert in damages analysis in complex litigation. He has more than 23 years of experience in applying economic and financial analysis to intellectual property, antitrust, securities, and contract matters and has analyzed more than 200 damage claims. He has lectured and written about damage claims and has testified successfully on these matters. Some of his most important work has been on major antitrust and intellectual property cases. He has recently co-authored the chapter on patent damages in the Litigation Services Handbook. Dr. O'Brien has also worked on numerous securities class-action cases and has testified before the US House of Representatives and Senate on the need to reform laws relating to those cases. Most of his suggestions were incorporated into the latest reforms in the securities laws. He has also published two pioneering studies of these matters. Dr. O'Brien holds master's and doctorate degrees from Harvard Business School where he taught as a research fellow, and a BS in electrical engineering with high honors from the University of Illinois. Dr. O'Brien spent two years as a market analyst at McDonnell Douglas Astronautics and four years as the corporate economist for Bethlehem Steel.

Andy Schwarz, Managing Partner  resume

Mr. Schwarz specializes in antitrust, intellectual property, and damages analysis. He holds an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA as well as an AB in history from Stanford University, and an MA in history from Johns Hopkins.

Mr. Schwarz has built a practice as a consulting expert, providing privileged advice to counsel in very large, complex litigation matters in antitrust, intellectual property, sport and entertainment, and insurance. He has extensive experience in class action litigation, providing assistance to counsel for defendants and for plaintiffs. In many cases, Mr. Schwarz has played a parallel role to the testifying expert, working with counsel to assist in their development of testimony from an unaffiliated expert.

Mr. Schwarz has also been engaged as a testifying expert in an insurance class action.

Mr. Schwarz has published on the antitrust implications of NCAA bylaws, the impact of the US v. Oracle trial on the doctrine of unilateral effects, and on the antitrust and intellectual property lessons to be learned from the emerging markets in virtual goods. He has been a litigation economist for more than ten years.

Doug Kidder, Managing Partner  resume

Mr. Kidder specializes in business strategy with a particular emphasis on the valuation and monetization of intellectual property. Mr. Kidder consults with clients across a range of industries with his primary expertise in information and technology.

Mr. Kidder has deep experience as a consultant with over 16 years of experience in intellectual property and strategy consulting including ten years with LECG, six years with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and a six month stint with Scient. In addition, he has four years of industry experience including: Vice President of Business Development for Walt Disney Imagineering, Vice President of Operations for Kenamea and Director of Distribution and Information Systems for Valspar. Mr. Kidder has a BA from Amherst College and a MSc from the University of California at Berkeley where he worked as a lecturer in the computer science department.  Mr. Kidder also owns and manages a business that makes rowing and sail boats.

Dan Rascher, Managing Partner  resume

Daniel Rascher teaches and publishes research on sports business topics, and consults to the sports industry. He specializes in economics and finance and more specifically in industrial organization, antitrust, M&As, valuation, economic impact, market readiness, feasibility research, marketing research, damage analysis, strategy, and labor issues in the sports industry. Dr. Rascher's clients have included companies involved in the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA, NCAA, minor league baseball, NHRA, AHL, Formula One racing, Champ Car racing, Premier League Football (soccer), professional cycling, media companies, sports commissions, local and state government, convention and visitors bureaus, B2B enterprises, and IHRSA.

Dr. Rascher received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He is Director of Academic Programs and Associate Professor for the Sport Management Program at the University of San Francisco (USF), where he also teaches courses in sports economics and finance and sports business research methods. Prior to joining USF, Dr. Rascher was an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has authored articles for academic and professional journals and book chapters in the sport management and economics fields, and has been interviewed hundreds of times by the media for his opinion on various aspects of the business of sports. He has testified as an expert witness in Federal and State Courts, in arbitration proceedings, and provided public testimony numerous times to local and state governments. Dr. Rascher serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, International Journal of Sport Finance, and the Journal of the Quantitative Analysis of Sports. Dr. Rascher was previously a Principal at LECG.

Chris Groves, Managing Economist  resume

Mr. Groves is in his eleventh year in litigation consulting, having done virtually every data-related task imaginable. He is skilled in most data manipulation and regression packages, which he uses to synthesize large datasets with economic theory in order to distill meaningful results. He has extensive experience in Securities Litigation, including class actions, valuations of employee stock options, and analysis of intraday trading and quoting behavior in the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ markets. Many of these cases have involved the creation of market-based event studies using large, detailed datasets. In his antitrust work, he has used the same skills to analyze large quantities of pricing, sales, and market data to measure the effect of relevant economic phenomena.

Mr. Groves is a CFA charterholder – a designation awarded based on professional achievement in the finance industry and the successful completion of comprehensive exams on a wide breadth of financial analysis topics. He has a BA from UC Berkeley in Political Economy of Industrial Societies and French. Mr. Groves has served as consultant to counsel on cases including major class actions in involving the monopolization claims of consumer goods and price-fixing claims of computer components. One of his current engagements involves the valuation of damages to a group of plaintiffs resulting from their company's acquisition by a firm with an allegedly fraudulently inflated stock price.