Dr. Denise Neumann Martin
Senior Vice President
Employment and Labor Practice Chair
Education
PhD and MA in economics, Harvard University
BA in economics and French, magna cum laude, Wellesley College
Experience
Dr. Martin has focused her work at NERA in three areas: securities litigation, product liability and mass tort valuation, and labor economics. In the securities and finance area, she has been retained in hundreds of shareholder class actions, derivative actions, and valuation matters. She has testified on issues of class certification, market efficiency, tracing, materiality, loss causation, disgorgement, and damages. She has conducted analyses for defendants in an array of industries, including banking/mortgage lending, computer/technology products, clothing/retail products, and pharmaceutical/medical products. These cases have required that she analyze allegations involving accounting restatements, subprime lending, earnings shortfalls, ERISA investments, IPO allocations, and insider trading. In mass torts, Dr. Martin has estimated the future personal injury claims likely to be brought against defendants involved in asbestos, silica, medical products, tobacco, food contamination, and construction products litigation. This work led her to co-author the reference text Estimating Future Claims: Case Studies from Mass Tort and Product Liability, and to be asked to provide Senate testimony related to proposed national tort reform. Dr. Martin's work in the area of labor economics includes testimony on issues of class certification and damages in wage and hour litigations. She has also performed statistical and econometric analysis of alleged wrongful termination and discrimination in hiring, pay, and promotion decisions for individuals as well as large classes.
Prior to joining NERA, Dr. Martin earned her MA and PhD in economics from Harvard University, where she specialized in industrial organization and international trade. She taught industrial organization and microeconomics at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and was awarded the Peggy Howard Fellowship in Economics and the Danforth Prize for Teaching. Her dissertation provides a theoretical and empirical investigation of the optimal relationship between the characteristics of a law firm and its compensation policies.
Dr. Martin also worked as an Assistant Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where she analyzed the interest rate swap and Eurobond markets.
Languages
English
French
