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Dr. Jim Malernee is a founder of Cornerstone Research, a firm offering expert economic and financial testimony for the legal community. Over the last 20 years, he has directed research on complex business issues related to a wide variety of cases. In recent years, he has specialized in securities matters, supervising hundreds of cases dealing with material disclosure, insider trading, merger and acquisition activity, targeted repurchases, minority buyouts, stock trading behavior, and valuation. He has prepared a number of cases for trial, including American Pacific Securities Litigation, Continental Illinois Bank Securities Litigation, In re Hillsborough Holdings, Kahn v. Tremont, Mary Kay Cosmetics Securities Litigation, Mentor Graphics Corp. v. Quickturn Design Systems, Inc., and Walt Disney Securities Litigation. He has also testified in federal district court in Pace Warehouse v. Tudor Insurance Co. Jim has served as a consultant to major corporations, and has taught finance at the University of Texas at Austin and business strategy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Jim received his Ph.D. and B.S. from the University of Texas and his M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University. | 