Unlock the hidden value of household production by learning to objectively quantify unpaid family services for maximum economic recovery.
Discover all the economic activity that takes place in this country every day while going largely unnoticed. Learn how the everyday activities of life can become powerful tools in your next case. Economist Kris Kucsma and attorney Brian Brown reveal how to quantify the value of family services and use them to ensure that you are providing the most comprehensive analysis of economic damages in personal injury, wrongful death, and employment litigation.It’s time to stop ignoring these valuable services—learn how to make sure the invisible do not go unnoticed
Course topics and key takeaways include:
By the end of this presentation, legal professionals will possess the knowledge to effectively argue for the economic value of household production, ensuring that the full scope of a client's loss is recognized and compensated.
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Principal of the Firm and Chief Economist at Sobel Tinari Economics Group
Kristin Kucsma, M.A., is a Principal of SobelCo. and Chief Economist of the Sobel Tinari Economics Group. Ms. Kucsma oversees the group’s award-winning economists and experienced analysts. Ms. Kucsma joined the Tinari Economics Group in January 2008 and, since then, has worked extensively on cases involving personal injury, wrongful death, employment law, wrongful incarceration, mass torts, punitive damages, and lost profits. Her ability to clearly explain complicated economic analysis makes Ms. Kucsma an effective expert witness. She works regularly with both plaintiff and defense attorneys and lectures frequently on valuing economic damages. Ms. Kucsma has testified in over 850 depositions, trials, mediations, and arbitrations, and has offered economic expert testimony in various state and federal district courts throughout the country. Prior to joining the Sobel Tinari Economics Group, Ms. Kucsma spent over 13 years teaching economics at the undergraduate and graduate level at Saint Peter’s College, Rutgers, Seton Hall, and Drew Universities. Her areas of expertise include American Economic History, Applied Micro Economic Theory, banking and financial markets, and corporate finance. Ms. Kucsma is an active member of the National Association of Forensic Economics and the Eastern Economics Association, a member of the American Economics Association, and a former member of the District Ethics Committee, Office of Attorney Ethics of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. She earned a B.A., summa cum laude, in Economics from Seton Hall University, an M.A. from Rutgers University, and is currently ABD at Rutgers University.
Attorney at Avanzino & Moreno, P.C.
Brian is a personal injury trial attorney with Avanzino & Moreno and a graduate of Brooklyn Law School. Prior to joining the firm, Brian was an award-winning trial attorney for the New York City Law Department where he routinely handled high-stakes civil rights and catastrophic injury matters. Outside of law, Brian is an active member of his Brooklyn community and an avid fan of the Yankees, Knicks and Titans. He enjoys traveling with his wife, and he also serves on the Academy's Associate Board.
