ABOUT FAIR VALUE METRICS

Wage and Hour Expertise

Wage and Hour Expertise Customizable, Intuitive, Economical

Customizable, Intuitive, Economical

For over a decade we have worked closely with attorneys supporting complex litigation involving some of the largest companies in the country.

PRINCIPAL

Jason Kandel

Founder, Fair Value Metrics LLC

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Jason Kandel is the founder and principal consultant of Fair Value Metrics. He spent years embedded as a data scientist at a wage and hour law firm, working on class actions from discovery through trial. That experience across the full arc of litigation provides a practical and unique perspective on what it takes to be effective as an expert witness.

Today Jason works with datasets from some of the world's largest companies across industries including trucking, health care, and insurance. He testifies regularly at both depositions and trial, builds dynamic damage models, and supports litigation teams in preparing for ESI focused depositions as well as reviewing and auditing other data driven processes.

Jason Kandel, founder of Fair Value Metrics

ECONOMICAL

Expert Work That Respects Your Budget

Fair Value Metrics is built to deliver strong, defensible analysis and expert services without putting unnecessary financial pressure on your case.

Resolve Cases Early

Flexible, convincing damage calculations with a long track record of moving cases toward settlement early, reducing the time and cost of litigation for all parties involved.

Resolve Cases Early

Flexible, convincing damage calculations with a long track record of moving cases toward settlement early, reducing the time and cost of litigation for all parties involved.

Reasonable Rates

Rates are kept competitive so we can dedicate the appropriate time to every matter without unnecessary cost pressure. The goal is long term relationships with attorneys who trust the work, not maximizing a single engagement.

Economical By Design

Damage models your team can adjust directly. Update assumptions, test scenarios, and generate fresh exhibits as your case evolves, without going back to the expert each time.

Economical By Design

Damage models your team can adjust directly. Update assumptions, test scenarios, and generate fresh exhibits as your case evolves, without going back to the expert each time.

RELIABLE

Testimony Is Always From the Expert Who Creates Your Exhibits

At Fair Value Metrics, every exhibit is created by the expert who will take the stand and defend it with a level of confidence that can only be attained by doing the work themselves, resulting in better outcomes for your legal team.

Your expert witness carries a tremendous responsibility: to present and defend your case's data and exhibits clearly, credibly, and in a way the court finds reliable. When a testifying expert is presenting work prepared by junior team members and cannot answer questions about the underlying calculations, their reliability goes out the window. The consequences are real: damages can be excluded entirely, or the court may adopt the opposing side's figures by default.

EXPERIENCE

Over a Decade of Wage & Hour Litigation Experience

Every case follows its own path, and we work with attorneys across a range of styles and strategies. But after a decade of wage and hour litigation, we have learned that the work done early sets the foundation for everything that follows, whether your case settles at the first mediation or goes all the way to trial.

01

The Path to Settlement

01

Moving towards an early mediation often encourages cooperation in discovery. This not only gives your case a good chance of settling early but establishes your team's command of the data from the start. The insight gained through this process can be tremendously valuable when it comes time to do ESI depositions and prepare for trial if the parties cannot reach a settlement.

01

Discovery Planning

Research employer systems and identify potential sources of data

01

Discovery Planning

Research employer systems and identify potential sources of data

02

Rules of Production

Often overlooked but critical. Clear production rules keep costs low by ensuring the data you receive is usable from the start.

03

Data Intake and Validation

Receive production, validate completeness, check against class list

03

Data Intake and Validation

Receive production, validate completeness, check against class list

04

Damage Analysis

Build first round of damages, flag gaps, identify risk areas

04

Damage Analysis

Build first round of damages, flag gaps, identify risk areas

05

Team Review

Walk through findings with counsel, discuss scenarios and exposure

05

Team Review

Walk through findings with counsel, discuss scenarios and exposure

06

Settlement Modeling

Build the interactive tools and exhibits your team takes into mediation

02

Choreographing ESI 30(b)(6) Depositions

Choreographing ESI 30(b)(6) Depositions

02

Getting strong testimony in a 30(b)(6) ESI deposition can solidify your case, but it is rarely easy. Every employer's systems are different, the jargon is dense, and the person testifying is not trying to make it simple for you. Having someone in your corner who can cut through the noise can make a big difference. Let us help you get the most out of these important depositions.

Timing

You need a clear picture of the available data and your overall plan for damages before taking the deposition. Go in too early and you lose the chance to ask about roadblocks or smoking guns that only surface during the damage analysis. Wait too long and there is no room to follow up if the testimony raises new issues.

Focus

Eight hours sounds like a lot of time but it goes fast. Identify beforehand which datasets matter most for your damages and exhibits and front load those. In a perfect world you would get testimony about every line of discovery, but it is important to prioritize the data that will actually show up in your case.

Focus

Eight hours sounds like a lot of time but it goes fast. Identify beforehand which datasets matter most for your damages and exhibits and front load those. In a perfect world you would get testimony about every line of discovery, but it is important to prioritize the data that will actually show up in your case.

Impeach

Use the deposition to dismantle weak arguments and shut down unnecessary rabbit holes before they ever make it to trial. If the other side is going to raise a bad argument about the data, this is your chance to take it apart on the record while you still have time to respond.

Outline

Know what you need pinned down before walking in. Identify the specific facts, admissions, and data points that your damages depend on and build your questioning around locking those in on the record.

Outline

Know what you need pinned down before walking in. Identify the specific facts, admissions, and data points that your damages depend on and build your questioning around locking those in on the record.

03

Flexible Exhibits

03

Facts change as a case develops. Rigid exhibits can become a liability if they cannot adapt. Our damage models are built with the flexibility to address these unknowns. Rather than presenting hundreds of versions to the judge and jury in hopes of predicting every detail of how the case unfolds, you can present a simplified exhibit that focuses on what you find important while still having the ability to adjust later on. If the opposing side cannot do the same, it significantly increases the chance that your model will be adopted.

Ready to Pivot in Any Scenario

Fire Protection Employees•
Preliminary Approval•
Successor Employer Doctrine•
Regular Rate of Pay•
Auto Deduction Policies•
Motor Carrier Exemption•
Section 207k Exemptions•
Multiple Rate Overtime•
Kickback Violations•
Fluctuating Workweek Method•
Opt In Response Rates•
Training Time Compensation•
Companionship Exemption•
Executive Exemption•
Exit Screening Pay•
Shift Differentials•
Home to Work Travel•
Willfulness Multiplier•
Sick Leave Calculations•
Hours Per Violation•
Day of Rest Violations•
PTO Accrual Disputes•
Quarter Hour Rounding•
Tip Credit Offsets•
Controlled Standby•
Subminimum Wage Certificates•
Incentive Awards•
Bag Check Duration•
Volunteer Time Issues•
Inventory Count Time•
Enterprise Coverage Test•
Computer Employee Exemption•
Route Planning Time•
Final Approval Metrics•
Domestic Service Rules•
Blended Rate Calculations•
Offset Credits•
Class Definitions•
Rest Period Premiums•
Subclass Breakdowns•
State Preemption Issues•
ABC Test Analysis•
Joint Employer Liability•
Final Pay Timing•
Professional Exemption•
Waiting Time Penalties•
Rest Break Violations•
Engaged to Wait•
Spread of Hours Pay•
Portal to Portal Act•
Interstate Commerce Test•
Cool Down Period Rules•
Reporting Time Pay•
Lecture Attendance Pay•
Uniform Maintenance Pay•
Prevailing Wage Rates•
Opt In Rates•
Makeup Time Provisions•
Time Record Analysis•
Rounding Policy Impact•
Pay Stub Penalties•
Post Judgment Interest•
Reversionary Clauses•
Meeting Time Pay•
Fire Protection Employees•
Preliminary Approval•
Successor Employer Doctrine•
Regular Rate of Pay•
Auto Deduction Policies•
Motor Carrier Exemption•
Section 207k Exemptions•
Multiple Rate Overtime•
Kickback Violations•
Fluctuating Workweek Method•
Opt In Response Rates•
Training Time Compensation•
Companionship Exemption•
Executive Exemption•
Exit Screening Pay•
Shift Differentials•
Home to Work Travel•
Willfulness Multiplier•
Sick Leave Calculations•
Hours Per Violation•
Day of Rest Violations•
PTO Accrual Disputes•
Quarter Hour Rounding•
Tip Credit Offsets•
Controlled Standby•
Subminimum Wage Certificates•
Incentive Awards•
Bag Check Duration•
Volunteer Time Issues•
Inventory Count Time•
Enterprise Coverage Test•
Computer Employee Exemption•
Route Planning Time•
Final Approval Metrics•
Domestic Service Rules•
Blended Rate Calculations•
Offset Credits•
Class Definitions•
Rest Period Premiums•
Subclass Breakdowns•
State Preemption Issues•
ABC Test Analysis•
Joint Employer Liability•
Final Pay Timing•
Professional Exemption•
Waiting Time Penalties•
Rest Break Violations•
Engaged to Wait•
Spread of Hours Pay•
Portal to Portal Act•
Interstate Commerce Test•
Cool Down Period Rules•
Reporting Time Pay•
Lecture Attendance Pay•
Uniform Maintenance Pay•
Prevailing Wage Rates•
Opt In Rates•
Makeup Time Provisions•
Time Record Analysis•
Rounding Policy Impact•
Pay Stub Penalties•
Post Judgment Interest•
Reversionary Clauses•
Meeting Time Pay•
Pre Shift Briefings•
Fluctuating Schedule Impact•
Vacation Payout Rules•
Alternative Workweek Schedules•
Postliminary Activities•
Class Period Dates•
Split Shift Premiums•
Liquidated Damages•
Flat Sum Bonuses•
Overtime Thresholds•
System Login Time•
Wage Theft Recovery•
Uncontrolled Standby•
Nearest Tenth Rounding•
Outside Sales Exemption•
Highly Compensated Employee Test•
Fluctuating Work Week•
Travel Between Worksites•
Seventh Day Overtime•
Longevity Bonuses•
McNamara O'Hara Rates•
Agricultural Exemption•
Penalty Stacking•
Dual Employment Issues•
Notice Plan Design•
Cy Pres Distribution•
Meal Period Premiums•
Arbitration Provisions•
Recovery Period Pay•
Call Back Pay•
Closing Procedure Time•
Training Wage Provisions•
De Minimis Doctrine•
Weighted Average Overtime•
Post Shift Duties•
Davis Bacon Compliance•
PAGA Penalties•
Pay Period Frequency•
Concurrent Employment•
Staffing Agency Rates•
Conditional Certification•
Duties Test Analysis•
Successive Employer Liability•
On Call Compensation•
Preliminary Activities•
Economic Reality Test•
Off the Clock Time•
Claims Made Recovery•
Security Check Time•
Meal Break Violations•
Retroactive Overtime•
IWC Wage Order Analysis•
Class Action Waivers•
Chinese Overtime•
Decertification Motions•
Inside Sales Exemption•
Bonus Inclusion in Regular Rate•
Rounding Policy Neutral•
Suffer or Permit Standard•
Belo Contract Analysis•
Service Charge Allocation•
Clopening Shift Penalties•
Class Representative Payments•
Fairness Hearing Prep•
Pre Shift Briefings•
Fluctuating Schedule Impact•
Vacation Payout Rules•
Alternative Workweek Schedules•
Postliminary Activities•
Class Period Dates•
Split Shift Premiums•
Liquidated Damages•
Flat Sum Bonuses•
Overtime Thresholds•
System Login Time•
Wage Theft Recovery•
Uncontrolled Standby•
Nearest Tenth Rounding•
Outside Sales Exemption•
Highly Compensated Employee Test•
Fluctuating Work Week•
Travel Between Worksites•
Seventh Day Overtime•
Longevity Bonuses•
McNamara O'Hara Rates•
Agricultural Exemption•
Penalty Stacking•
Dual Employment Issues•
Notice Plan Design•
Cy Pres Distribution•
Meal Period Premiums•
Arbitration Provisions•
Recovery Period Pay•
Call Back Pay•
Closing Procedure Time•
Training Wage Provisions•
De Minimis Doctrine•
Weighted Average Overtime•
Post Shift Duties•
Davis Bacon Compliance•
PAGA Penalties•
Pay Period Frequency•
Concurrent Employment•
Staffing Agency Rates•
Conditional Certification•
Duties Test Analysis•
Successive Employer Liability•
On Call Compensation•
Preliminary Activities•
Economic Reality Test•
Off the Clock Time•
Claims Made Recovery•
Security Check Time•
Meal Break Violations•
Retroactive Overtime•
IWC Wage Order Analysis•
Class Action Waivers•
Chinese Overtime•
Decertification Motions•
Inside Sales Exemption•
Bonus Inclusion in Regular Rate•
Rounding Policy Neutral•
Suffer or Permit Standard•
Belo Contract Analysis•
Service Charge Allocation•
Clopening Shift Penalties•
Class Representative Payments•
Fairness Hearing Prep•
Law Enforcement Exemption•
Retail Commission Exemption•
Handoff Meeting Duration•
Piece Rate Adjustments•
Time and a Half•
PAGA Manageability•
Settlement Fund Allocation•
Hospital 8 and 80•
Adequacy of Representation•
Workweek Reconstruction•
Days Per Violation•
Predictive Scheduling Pay•
Production Bonuses•
Gap Time Claims•
Split Shift Duration•
Client Documentation Time•
Workweek Definitions•
Opening Procedure Time•
Commission Calculations•
Misclassification Damages•
Out of Town Travel•
Seasonal Amusement Exemption•
Opposing Counsel's Model•
FLSA Coverage Analysis•
Tip Pooling Violations•
Pre Judgment Interest•
Seven Minute Rule•
Minimum Wage Rates•
Liability Scenarios•
Attendance Bonuses•
Cash Register Reconciliation•
Show Up Pay•
Continuous Workday Rule•
Individual Coverage Test•
Salary Basis Test•
Union Contract Exemptions•
Comp Time Violations•
Punch Data Gaps•
Wait to Be Engaged•
Administrative Exemption•
Charting Time Claims•
Lactation Break Time•
State Specific Damages•
Statute of Limitations•
Sleep Time Deductions•
Municipal Wage Ordinances•
Exemption Thresholds•
Double Time Rates•
Tool and Equipment Costs•
Youth Minimum Wage•
Live In Employee Rules•
Travel Time Inclusion•
Donning and Doffing•
Boot Up Time•
Collective Bargaining Waiver•
Manageability Concerns•
Service Contract Act•
Standby Time Rules•
Non Discretionary Bonuses•
Opportunity Wage Rates•
Delivery Vehicle Inspection•
Wage Order Compliance•
Integral and Indispensable•
Law Enforcement Exemption•
Retail Commission Exemption•
Handoff Meeting Duration•
Piece Rate Adjustments•
Time and a Half•
PAGA Manageability•
Settlement Fund Allocation•
Hospital 8 and 80•
Adequacy of Representation•
Workweek Reconstruction•
Days Per Violation•
Predictive Scheduling Pay•
Production Bonuses•
Gap Time Claims•
Split Shift Duration•
Client Documentation Time•
Workweek Definitions•
Opening Procedure Time•
Commission Calculations•
Misclassification Damages•
Out of Town Travel•
Seasonal Amusement Exemption•
Opposing Counsel's Model•
FLSA Coverage Analysis•
Tip Pooling Violations•
Pre Judgment Interest•
Seven Minute Rule•
Minimum Wage Rates•
Liability Scenarios•
Attendance Bonuses•
Cash Register Reconciliation•
Show Up Pay•
Continuous Workday Rule•
Individual Coverage Test•
Salary Basis Test•
Union Contract Exemptions•
Comp Time Violations•
Punch Data Gaps•
Wait to Be Engaged•
Administrative Exemption•
Charting Time Claims•
Lactation Break Time•
State Specific Damages•
Statute of Limitations•
Sleep Time Deductions•
Municipal Wage Ordinances•
Exemption Thresholds•
Double Time Rates•
Tool and Equipment Costs•
Youth Minimum Wage•
Live In Employee Rules•
Travel Time Inclusion•
Donning and Doffing•
Boot Up Time•
Collective Bargaining Waiver•
Manageability Concerns•
Service Contract Act•
Standby Time Rules•
Non Discretionary Bonuses•
Opportunity Wage Rates•
Delivery Vehicle Inspection•
Wage Order Compliance•
Integral and Indispensable•

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(845) 475-0383

info@fairvaluemetrics.com

© 2026 Fair Value Metrics LLC. All rights reserved.