Thomas McGahee

Vice President
Thomas McGahee
Dallas

Education

Ph.D., economics, and B.B.A., management, University of Georgia

Summary of Experience

Dr. McGahee specializes in economic analysis and damages quantification. He focuses on their application in complex commercial disputes and has experience in antitrust, breach of contract, class certification, data privacy, false advertising, intellectual property, and product liability matters. Dr. McGahee has submitted expert reports in more than 25 cases and has provided expert testimony on economic issues and damages in state and federal courts and in arbitrations before the American Arbitration Association and International Chamber of Commerce. He is experienced in the evaluation of lost profits, price erosion, reasonable royalty damages, unjust enrichment, alleged economic harm to consumers, corrective advertising, and claims of irreparable economic injury. In antitrust matters, he has evaluated market definition, market power, competitive effects, and damages. In class certification matters, he has assessed claims of class-wide economic injury and evaluated proposed methods for quantifying damages on a class-wide basis. In intellectual property matters, Dr. McGahee has evaluated damages associated with patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, trademark, trade dress, and copyright violations. He also has assisted clients in negotiating license agreements and resolving disputes as to the licensing value of intellectual property.

At the University of Georgia, Dr. McGahee has taught courses in economics at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including core curriculum in the Master of Science in Business Analytics program. Topics addressed in his courses have included the functioning of markets, supply and demand analysis, pricing, costs of production, efficiency, profit maximization, market definition, market structure, competition, product differentiation, competitive advantage, network effects, incentives for technological innovation, R&D strategy, intellectual property, licensing, bargaining, economics of contract design, damages, antitrust regulation, market failure, and solutions to market failure, among others.

Thomas McGahee
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