Statistics in Class Certification and at Trial: Leveraging and Attacking Statistical Evidence

Ms. Kokolis is an experienced litigator with a special practice emphasis on complex and appellate litigation, particularly the defense and settlement of class actions. She has litigated more than 100 class actions in federal and state courts across the country involving a variety of issues, including insurance coverage and claims practices, consumer fraud, environmental class actions, consumer privacy, products liability, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) issues, securities fraud, and distributor and franchise issues. Ms. Kokolis also writes and lectures frequently on these topics.

Dr. Lear Nordby is an economist and Managing Director at Ankura based in Boston. She specializes in applying economics, econometrics, finance, and statistics to antitrust, consumer, mass torts, and other complex commercial disputes. Dr. Lear Nordby has over 20 years of experience providing clients with rigorous economic analyses of damages, loss, and class certification issues. She has submitted expert reports and provided testimony in arbitration and federal court. Dr. Lear Nordby has worked on matters involving allegations of price fixing, bundling, foreclosure, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of statutory duty, non-disclosure of product defects, abusive tax shelters, environmental contamination, crop damages, property value diminution, patent infringement, and patent misuse. These matters span a broad range of industries, including agriculture, airlines, automobiles, banking, chemicals, energy, freight transportation, healthcare, mortgage servicing, pharmaceuticals, retail pharmacies, vaccines, memory storage, and other consumer products.