Experience
Dr. Song is an economist, CFA charter holder, and expert witness. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. She has 25 years of experience providing consulting and expert testimony in single-plaintiff, multiple-plaintiff, and class action disputes. Dr. Song has been qualified as an expert witness in both Federal and State Courts and have testified at arbitration and at trial. For over four years, she was appointed by the United States District Court of Kansas as a neutral Technical Advisor, to assist the Court and the Special Master with a complex employment class action and contract dispute.
Dr. Song routinely works with large databases to study issues related to class certification, economic damages, and penalties in class and collective action labor employment cases as well as consumer and product liability class action disputes. In labor employment matters, Dr. Song has studied labor market definition and has applied techniques in statistics and econometrics to examine companies’ employment practices: hiring, pay, promotion, termination, reduction in force, executive compensation, and pension benefits. Additionally, she has conducted pay equity studies to assist companies with identifying potential pay gaps between different groups of employees.
Dr. Song’s statistical and econometric expertise includes applying econometric modeling tools, such as conducting statistical tests, performing regression analyses, and drawing statistical inferences based on robust empirical data analyses. Related to survey data analysis, Dr. Song has offered rebuttal opinions to surveys including the choice-based conjoint (CBC) survey, as well as surveys in misclassification employment class and collective actions. Other areas of her expertise include applying complex financial modeling tools, for example valuation and event-study in connection with alleged trade secrets misappropriation, accounting fraud, and breach of contract damages calculations.
Dr. Song taught courses on labor economics at the University of California, Irvine, and on financial institutions at California State University, Los Angeles. She taught review courses on risk management for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program, and was a former board member of CFA Los Angeles Charter.
Areas of Expertise
- Class Certification & Mass Torts
- Commercial Disputes & Business Litigation
- Damages Analysis
- Data Mining, Data Acquisition, & Web Scraping
- Econometrics & Statistics
- Labor & Employment
- Survey Methodology
- University and College
Education & Certifications
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago
- MA, Economics, University of Chicago
- BA, Economics & Mathematics, Agnes Scott College
- CFA Charterholder
Membership and Activities
- CFA Institute
- CFA Society of Los Angeles
- Women’s Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
- American Economic Association
- American Bar Association
Languages
Mandarin Chinese (native), English (fluent), French (conversational).
