Class Action Litigation Expert Witnesses

Class action litigation expert witnesses and consultants listed here may be able to form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, provide expert witness testimony at deposition and/or trial as or serve as consulting (non-testifying) experts on class action litigation. The class action litigation expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Advertising and Marketing.

Thomas J Maronick, DBA, JD Maronick Associates

Baltimore, Maryland
Marketing, Advertising - Survey research, consumer behavior, consumer confusion, deceptive advertising, trademark, trade-dress and genericness, Lanham Act, FTC, class-action litigation.
Federal and State qualified advertising, marketing and survey research expert representing plaintiff and defendant clients in advertising and trademark litigation matters. Designed over 700 surveys related to advertising, trademark trade dress and genericness areas for plaintiff and defendant clients. Former Director of Impact Evaluation in FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. Expert in design and implementation of on-line and internet panel surveys. Author of journal articles on "Guidelines for On-Line Surveys in Litigation," "Comparison of Mall and On-Line Surveys in Litigation."

Patricia Yanes Applied Marketing Science, Inc.

Burlington, Massachusetts
Marketing, Advertising - Conjoint Analysis, Class Action, Class Action Lawsuits, Class Action Damage Models, Class Action Litigation, Class Certification, Economic Damages, Market Research, Marketing, Survey Design, Survey Research, Damage Calculations, Damages
Patricia Yanes serves as an expert witness for civil litigation, with a specialty in on conjoint analysis and discrete-choice methodologies for class actions. She has led domestic and international market research engagements for over a decade as a Principal at Applied Marketing Science, Inc. (AMS). Her litigation research experience includes supporting affiliated academic experts in the design and execution of high-stakes consumer litigation, and in preparing rebuttals. She has managed projects with testifying experts on cases related to deceptive advertising, class actions, patent infringement and more. Patty is a master of conjoint analysis, maximum-difference scaling (MaxDiff), total unduplicated reach and frequency (TURF), and choice-modeling techniques. Patty is a member of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), the Insights Association (IA), and Women in Research (WIRe). She has gu...