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Laurence Schumann is a senior managing economist in LECG's Washington, DC office. Dr. Schumann specializes in industrial organization and antitrust economics. His work has focused on the antitrust analysis of mergers and acquisitions and various business practices such as price fixing, tying, exclusive dealing, and other horizontal and vertical restraints. He has also calculated economic damages in matters involving a wide range of commercial litigation. Dr. Schumann has testified in US district court and in arbitration proceedings, and has published articles in a number of leading economic journals.
Dr. Schumann has over twenty years experience as an antitrust economist. He spent more than ten years as an economist on the staff of the Federal Trade Commission, where, as a member of the staff of the Division of Economic Policy Analysis, Bureau of Economics, he conducted economic research on the competitive effects of proposed state and federal regulations. His analyses were submitted to state legislatures, federal agencies, and Congress as part of the Federal Trade Commission's Competition and Consumer Advocacy Program. Dr. Schumann also assisted in the antitrust investigations of corporate mergers and business practices, and acted as an expert witness.
Since leaving government service, Dr. Schumann has been an economic consultant for Glassman-Oliver Economic Consultants, CRA International and LECG. He has experience in a wide range of industrial and consumer manufacturing industries and service industries. A partial list of the industries analyzed by Dr. Schumann includes medical devices, pharmaceuticals, hospitals, software, chemicals, packaging, paper and paperboard, transportation, textiles, telecommunications, building and construction materials, electrical equipment, steel, and mining. | 