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Expert Witness
Dr. Steven Wolfson helps you, the legal
professional, prepare and present your case using
quantitative methods such as statistics, demographics, and
economics. Persuasion, logic, and theatrics are not
enough to convince today’s sophisticated judges and juries
of the virtues of your case. Hard evidence is needed,
which is where Dr. Wolfson comes in. After 25 years as
a practicing attorney, Dr. Wolfson earned his Ph.D. in
Public Policy and Political Economy, and now employs skills
acquired in those disciplines to craft your case into a
prodigious model of analytical clarity. Let the facts
speak for themselves!
Dr. Wolfson is able to provide guidance
on a full range of discrimination and racial profiling
claims, whether under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights
Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims, the Age Discrimination in
Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, or the
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Dr. Wolfson avails himself to
attorneys, law firms and government agencies, and is
available only on a
consultation basis to the general public.
Among the areas in which Dr. Wolfson
offers attorneys expert witness testimony are:
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Racial Profiling
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Demographics
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Tax Law
To request the consulting and expert witness testimony
services of Dr. Wolfson, visit the Contact Us page.
Dr. Wolfson helps attorneys and
government agencies with discovery of underlying data,
creation of a statistical model, and as an expert witness.
Dr. Wolfson can help with all types of legal disputes that
require statistical and economic expertise, including civil
rights, wrongful death, zoning, and redistricting cases.
Dr. Wolfson has extensive
experience in dealing with statistical and economic
issues. His Ph.D. focused heavily on statistical
analysis, and his doctoral research involved analyzing 5.2
million traffic stops by studying racial patterns to
determine whether racial profiling existed.
Dr. Wolfson's legal training and experience allow him to
provide more efficient expert assistance than a
non-attorney trained in statistics or economics, but not in
the law. For example, he has hands on experience in
collecting data from government agencies and private
parties, and is able to craft much of the necessary
discovery on his own without assistance from counsel.
Steven R. Wolfson, based in Dallas, Texas
offers expert witness testimony and consulting services
throughout the United States.
Click here to contact Dr. Wolfson about his Texas
expert witness testimony services.
Steven R. Wolfson, J.D., Ph.D.
Main Office Dallas,
TX
Phone: (214) 769-8618
In discrimination and racial
profiling cases, expert proof is necessary to establish
your prima facie case. Employers,
government or law enforcement agencies defending
themselves against discrimination claims also require
expert support in rebutting the claims of illegal
discrimination. Dr.
Wolfson has created the copyrighted Wolfson Model for
Detecting Evidence of Racial Profiling©,
adapted from his Ph.D. dissertation.
Dr. Wolfson combines his experience
as an attorney with his expertise in dealing with
statistical issues involving racial data to assist
counsel.
To request the consulting and expert witness testimony
services of Dr. Wolfson, please click here.
Dr.
Wolfson has extensive experience in dealing with
statistical issues related to civil rights law. He
teaches college level classes in economics, and his
Ph.D. focused heavily on statistical analysis.
His doctoral dissertation involved the analysis of 5.2
million traffic stops in the state of Texas analyzing
racial patterns to determine existence of racial
profiling. Moreover, in his law practice, Dr.
Wolfson has experience serving as counsel to the
Internal Revenue Service defending against claims of
discriminatory employment practices.
Dr. Wolfson is able to provide guidance on a full range
of discrimination and racial profiling claims, whether
under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C.
§ 1983 claims, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act,
the Americans with Disabilities Act, or the Fourteenth
Amendment to the United States Constitution.
In wrongful death or discrimination cases, the calculation of
economic damages often requires complicated time series analyses. To do
these analyses, it is important to find a consultant and expert witness who is
experienced in handling statistics and capable of complex data management.
Dr. Steven Wolfson combines his experience as a practicing attorney with his
expertise in dealing with statistical questions to assist parties in all forms
of litigation that require economic projections.
To request the consulting and expert witness testimony services of Dr. Wolfson,
please click here.
In addition to being a lawyer, Dr. Wolfson has extensive
hands-on experience both with data management and statistical analysis.
His doctoral research required him to manage a database involving data from over
5 million traffic stops. Before any meaningful analysis could be done on
this data, Dr. Wolfson had to translate it into a usable form. This data
management experience is helpful in many different types of statistical
analysis.
Dr. Wolfson currently is a program evaluator (statistician)
for a major metropolitan public school district, overseeing compliance of large
educational grants with the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and the Government
Performance and Results Act of 1993. He is also instrumental in writing work
plans to obtain grant financing for programs within the district. Present
programs include Safe and Drug Free Schools, and student voluntary drug testing.
He has taught college level courses in economics, and
is experienced in serious economic statistical analyses, such as time series
analysis. For example, in a employment discrimination case, often back-pay
and front-pay are available as means to measure the damages. In order to
calculate front-pay, or economic damages for wrongful death, time-series
analysis is necessary to estimate what the salary of a particular person would
be at a particular time, and to translate that amount of future or past income
into present value.
Dr. Wolfson is uniquely positioned to provide useful
consulting and expert witness services both because of many
years as a practicing attorney and his academic experience dealing with
economic and statistical issues.
Demographics Expert Witness -- including redistricting and
zoning
Expert analysis of statistical and demographical data can
be necessary in a range of cases, from zoning disputes to redistricting
challenges. Dr. Steven Wolfson combines his experience as a practicing
attorney with his expertise in dealing with statistical questions to assist
parties in all forms of litigation that require demographical analysis.
To request the consulting and expert witness testimony services of Dr. Wolfson,
please click here.
Dr. Wolfson has extensive personal experience with both
management of data and statistical analysis. His doctoral research
required him to manage data from over 5 million traffic stops. Before any
meaningful analysis could be done on this data, Dr. Wolfson had to translate it
into a usable form. This data management experience is helpful in many
different types of statistical analysis. Any attorney is able to request
demographic data from a governmental agency, but often this data will be in a
form that is extremely difficult to use, and data management skills are
necessary to translate that data into a usable form.
Dr. Wolfson is able to apply his statistical expertise in a
variety of legal contexts, including legislative and congressional
redistricting, zoning, and homeland security cases. In addition to being
an attorney, he teaches college level classes in economics, and his Ph.D.
focused heavily on statistical analysis. His doctoral dissertation
involved the analysis of 5.2 million traffic stops in the state of Texas
studying racial patterns to determine whether racial profiling existed. He
is experienced in handling demographic data.
Because of Dr. Wolfson's experience as a practicing lawyer,
he is uniquely positioned to provide efficient expert consultation and
assistance. For example, he is experienced in obtaining the crucial
demographic data from governmental agencies, and is able to do discovery
requests on his own, rather than explaining to counsel what documents or data
need to be requested.
Attorney Profile
Steven R. Wolfson J.D., Ph.D., LL.M.,
M.P.A.
Dallas, Texas
FORENSIC STATISTICS ATTORNEY Ph.D. EXPERT
WITNESS
Steven R. Wolfson, based in Dallas, Texas offers expert
witness testimony and consulting services to attorneys throughout Texas and the
United States. His services include assistance with civil rights, economic
damages, and demographic and statistical analysis. Because of Dr. Wolfson's
training and experience as a lawyer, he is uniquely positioned to provide
efficient expert testimony and consulting services.
Economic damages, racial
profiling, discrimination, demographics. Attorney,
30 years experience. Assist counsel/governmental
agencies in constructing statistical model, discovery, collecting data,
running/interpreting regressions, testifying.
Steven R. Wolfson, J.D.,
Ph.D. (Political Economy), LL.M., M.P.A. (Master Public Affairs).
214-769-8618
srwolfson@sbcglobal.net
Areas of Practice-
Discrimination
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Constitutional Law
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Civil Rights
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Racial Profiling
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Demographics
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Tax Law
Bar Admissions-
Supreme Court of Texas
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U.S. Supreme Court
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U.S. District Court Northern District
of Texas
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U.S. District Court Eastern District of
Texas
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U.S. District Court Western District of
Texas
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U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
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U.S. Court of Appeals District of
Columbia Circuit
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U.S. Tax Court
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U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Education-
The University of Texas School of Law,
Austin, Texas
Master of Laws
- St. Mary's University
School of Law, San Antonio, Texas
Juris Doctor
Honors: Class Rank in Top 15%
- The University of
Texas, Dallas, Texas
Ph.D.
Major: Public Policy
and Political Economy
- The University of Texas, Dallas,
Texas
Master of Public Affairs
- The University of
Texas, Austin, Texas
Bachelor of Arts
Honors: Government
Publications
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Peer review article entitled “Racial Profiling and Searches: Did the Politics of Racial Profiling Change Police Behavior?”, for Criminology and Public Policy, an official publication of the American Society of Criminology, Florida State University.
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Steven Wolfson quoted in in 49 Boston College Law Review 263, 264 (2007)
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Steven Wolfson quoted in The Dallas Morning News, August 18th, 2007, in a Racial Profiling Cover Story
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Steven Wolfson quoted in The
Christian Science Monitor on racial profiling,
August 4th, 2006, in ”Mayor’s Tough Tack on Crime
Stirs Up Racial Sensitivities”
- Copyright holder of the Wolfson
Model for Detecting Evidence of Racial Profiling©
- Article in progress for the
American Bar Association
Section of Litigation's
Minority Trial Lawyer Newsletter
on disciplinary disparity of minority
attorneys.
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Racial Profiling in Texas
Department of Public Safety Traffic Stops:" Race Aware
or Race Benign?, 8 Scholar 117 (Spring 2006), St.
Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues.
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Invited to present his
article
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the national conference of National Association of
African American Studies (NAAAS) in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana “Racial Profiling in Texas Department of
Public Safety Traffic Stops: Race Aware or Race
Benign?”, February 15, 2007.
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Social Policy in Title VII
Arbitrations, 68 Kentucky Law Journal 101 (1979-80).
Advisor was Honorable Jerre S. Williams, Professor of
Law and Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth
Circuit. Cited in 57 Temple Law Quarterly 47, 55;
and 32 Labor Law Journal 621, 625).
Classes/Seminars Taught
- Professor of Economics, Collin
County Community College
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Faculty Development Administrator,
Teaches Employment Discrimination Law, Economics,
Statistics, and Organizational Ethics, University of
Phoenix, Dallas/Fort Worth Campus
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Adjunct Faculty, University of
Phoenix
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Adjunct Faculty, Richland College,
Dallas County Community College District, American
Government
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Adjunct Instructor, U.S.
Constitutional Law, Collin County Community College
District
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Guest Lecturer, U.S.- Mexican
Environmental Issues Under NAFTA, Collin County
Community College District
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Guest Lecturer, U.S. Constitutional
Law, University of Texas at Dallas
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Guest Lecturer, Emeritus Enrichment
Presentation, Richland College, DCCCD
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Guest Lecturer, Operation Iraqi
Freedom: Winning the Peace
Honors and Awards-
Omicron Delta Epsilon, International
Honor Society in Economics
Professional Associations
and Memberships-
State Bar of Texas, Hispanic Issues
Section
Past Chair Fiscal Year 2005
- United States
District Court Northern District of Texas
Criminal
Justice Act Voluntary Attorney Panel
- Hispanic National Bar
Association
- Mexican - American
Bar Association of Texas (MABAT)
Present Employment Position
- Program Evaluation Specialist,
Dallas Independent School District
Past Employment
Positions-
Office of Chief Counsel, U.S.
Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service,
Attorney
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City of Dallas, Texas, Alternate
Administrative Law Judge
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Law Office of Steven R. Wolfson,
P.C.
Pro Bono Activities-
Criminal Justice Act Voluntary
Attorney Panel, N.D. Tex.
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Volunteer, Legal Services of North
Texas
Languages-
English
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Spanish
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Portuguese
The information you obtain at this
site is not, nor is it intended to be, legal advice. You
should consult an attorney for individual advice regarding
your own situation.
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