Free text date fields produce cleanup work that a date selector and separate start and end fields prevent. A few simple form choices keep intake data usable from day one.

Nondiscretionary bonuses belong in the regular rate, spread across the weeks they were earned. Why counsel often leave them out of damage models, and how breaking payments out daily makes the calculation manageable.

A checklist for testing whether a damage model can keep up with mediation and trial: instant totals, side by side scenario comparisons, and allocations finalized in real time without another expert revision.

The fluctuating workweek pay method, or FWW, combines elements of a fixed salary model and traditional time and a half overtime and is intended to provide income stability for workers and cost predictability for employers. Non exempt employees receive a fixed weekly salary regardless of hours worked, including weeks with fewer than forty hours.

When building legal data for structured analysis, use employee ID as your primary method for identifying case members. It’s human nature to default to names, but names cause problems, especially across large or messy datasets.

Are you confident your expert witness understands their work well enough to withstand rigorous depositions and trial examinations? Too often, the expert your law firm interacts with isn’t the one actually performing the analysis.

Matching clients to their data is one of the most basic requirements of any data analysis. Although this may seem straightforward, it can become an extremely complex and subtle production issue, and is a common source of unnecessary cost, delay, and confusion in many matters.

An ESI focused Rule 30(b)(6) deposition is a critical legal tool. Executed well, it can resolve tricky data situations, strengthen your team’s confidence in its valuations, increase recoveries for your clients, and significantly reduce the cost of generating damages and exhibits.