Trusted Economic Damages Expert Witness for Complex Financial Disputes
Dr. Pavithra Kumar is a trusted economic damages expert witness who assists attorneys in calculating financial damages through detailed and reliable economic analysis. She provides clear, well-supported damage assessments for securities, contract, antitrust, and intellectual property disputes that can be effectively presented in court.
When a case hinges on a number, that number has to hold up. Judges scrutinize it. Opposing experts attack it. Juries have to understand it.
That’s exactly where an economic damages expert witness earns their value – or doesn’t. Dr. Pavithra Kumar, PhD, CFA, has more than 16 years of experience preparing damage analyses for complex litigation matters. As an affiliate of AACG, she works with both plaintiff and defense counsel in securities litigation, commercial disputes, antitrust cases, and intellectual property matters. Her analyses are based on established economic principles, reliable data, and widely accepted methodologies. Rather than simply calculating damages, she develops well-supported opinions that can withstand detailed legal and expert scrutiny.
Economic Damages Analysis – What’s Included
A Methodology Built for the Courtroom
Every damage analysis prepared by Dr. Kumar is developed with careful attention to whether the methods, assumptions, and conclusions can withstand detailed review and questioning during cross-examination.
She develops each analysis using established economic, statistical, and quantitative methods. Market data, financial records, and industry information are carefully reviewed and incorporated into the analysis. Every assumption is clearly explained and supported by available evidence, helping ensure that the findings are transparent, reliable, and easy to understand.
Dr. Kumar has experience working with both plaintiff and defense counsel, which gives her a strong understanding of how damages analyses are examined and challenged in litigation. This perspective influences her work from the beginning of each case. Her goal is not only to calculate damages, but also to ensure that the analysis is supported by a clear, reliable approach that judges, juries, and arbitrators can easily follow and evaluate.
Who This Service Is For
Dr. Kumar works with legal teams handling financially complex disputes, including:
- Commercial litigators handling breach of contract, business tort, or fraud claims where financial losses need to be quantified.
- Securities litigators pursuing or defending against investor loss claims and class action damages.
- Antitrust attorneys who need credible market-level damages models for DOJ, FTC, or private litigation matters.
- Intellectual property counsel requiring lost profits or reasonable royalty analyses in patent, trademark, or copyright cases.
- In-house legal teams managing high-stakes disputes where an independent, credentialed economic damages expert adds weight to settlement negotiations or trial preparation.
Why Choose Dr. Kumar
- PhD + CFA credentials. She holds a doctorate in economics and the Chartered Financial Analyst designation - a combination that’s rare among expert witnesses and directly relevant to financial damages work.
- 16+ years of active expert witness experience. She’s not a consultant who occasionally testifies. Expert witness work is her practice. She knows what works in reports and what lands in testimony.
- Multibillion-dollar case experience. She’s worked on some of the largest and most complex financial disputes in the country. Large numbers, complex facts, high-pressure timelines - she’s handled all of it.
- Clear communication. Financial damages can get complicated fast. Dr. Kumar translates economic models into language that attorneys, judges, and juries can follow - without losing analytical rigor.
Work With a Proven Economic Damages Expert Witness
In many disputes, the calculation of damages can have a significant impact on the outcome of the case. For that reason, the qualifications and experience of the expert performing the analysis are critically important. Dr. Pavithra Kumar combines strong academic credentials, proven analytical methods, and courtroom experience to provide damage analyses that are reliable, well-supported, and capable of withstanding legal scrutiny.