Palo Alto Economics
A Law and Economics Group.
Palo Alto Economics is a law and economics group formed
to provide strategic guidance and litigation services in connection with the use
of economic and accounting experts in complex intellectual property, antitrust,
securities class action, damages, and technology cases.
The principals offer excellence
in, and enjoy, economic problem-solving in a legal setting. The principals have had a direct role in
some of the most noteworthy cases involving economic issues of the last 35
years.
The
principals formed Palo Alto Economics because of a perceived need for
significantly improved economic analysis in a variety of litigation
contexts. Each has too often seen gaps
between lawyers and their testifying experts, with the result less than sound
economic analysis, in the most important cases in the country, with the most at
stake.
Experience has taught the principals that detailed critical
scrutiny by a skilled practitioner with no obligation to keep a staff of
assistants busy is likely to generate significant benefits in developing the
central ideas that move ultimate decision-makers. By philosophy and inclination, the principals are not interested
in "leveraging." They are therefore in
a position to work on cases as an adjunct to firms that offer clients
complementary benefits or liability phase expertise.
Consistent with the
principals' philosophy, Palo Alto Economics will work on economic and
accounting issues as clients request.
The principals are able to draw on the full range of problem-solving
resources any client would need in these areas, for any case, and, where appropriate
and in select matters, will prepare expert testimony, assume responsibility for
a portion of a case, or provide other actual case work.
