Victoria A. Lazear

Founder and Principal
M.S., B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Victoria Lazear is founder and principal of Applied Economics Partners. She has over twenty-five years experience in the application of economic theory to issues in litigation and regulation. Ms. Lazear provides expert testimony and directs research for expert testimony in cases involving the estimation of damages and in litigation involving antitrust, telecommunications, high technology, e-commerce and the Internet, pharmaceutical and chemical, securities, banking and finance, energy, regulation, and labor issues. Her practice includes cases involving breach of contract, economic reasonability of contracts, misuse of intellectual property, unfair competition, disparagement, complex valuation, and related economic issues.

Prior to forming Applied Economics Partners, Ms. Lazear was a vice president at Cornerstone Research, where she directed research for expert testimony in cases ranging from breach of contract to insider trading and regulatory issues. She also worked for Illinois Bell Telephone Company where, as District Manager of Demand Analysis, she prepared and testified to rate proposals before the Illinois Commerce Commission.

Ms. Lazear is co-author with Robert E. Hall of "Reference Guide on Estimation of Losses in Damages Awards," in Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. She has testified in state court as well as in regulatory hearings before state regulatory commissions. She also has lectured on the economic analysis of damages and has taught a course in business economics on regulation and public utilities at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.