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As detailed at expertwitnesspsychology.com, Dr. Morrel-Samuels received an MA in research methodology from the University of Chicago, and an M. Phil. and Ph.D. in experimental social psychology from Columbia University. He is one of the few expert witnesses working at the intersection of three areas: the psychometrics of assessments, statistics, and disparate impact in employment. He has more than 30 years’ experience designing and analyzing assessments for employees in government and large corporations. He is a Lecturer at University of Michigan, where he teaches graduate classes on survey design, statistics, and research methodology.
Dr. Morrel-Samuels has testified to Congress on employee motivation and its linkage to objective performance metrics; he has also served as an expert witness for both plaintiffs and defendants by providing statistical analysis of very large datasets in four types of lawsuits: employment discrimination cases; contract disputes, pension lawsuits, and litigation that hinges on surveys, assessments, or employee evaluations. He assisted the NAACP in its amicus brief for the Ricci discrimination case in New Haven, was the sole statistician in a successful $64M breach of contract case (Tower Automotive v. UNOVA) that required analyzing 4 million rows of data, testified as an expert witness at the ICC’s International Court of Arbitration in The Hague, provided detailed statistical analysis in a large pension lawsuit involving the Miami Police Department, successfully withstood six Daubert challenges in Federal Court, and recently served as the EEOC’s expert witness in one of its landmark discrimination cases. In addition to his teaching responsibilities at the University of Michigan he is also CEO of EMPA (SurveysForBusiness.com), a company that has designed and analyzed assessments for more than 7 million employees in over 70 countries.