Roman Gulagian, Ph.D. (legal name: Roman Garagulagian)
Economic Damages & Lost Earnings · Licensed: CA
Biography
Per his firm's CV, he holds a B.S. in Economics (December 2009) and an M.S. in Economics (June 2012), both from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Claremont Graduate University (May 2016). His dissertation applied machine learning (support vector machines) to predicting U.S. recession probabilities — a topic he also presented at the Western Economic Association International's 92nd annual conference in 2017. Prior to founding his own practice, he was a teaching assistant in advanced microeconometrics at Claremont Graduate University (2014–2015, under instructor Yariv Fadlon), an associate economist at Rizzardi Economic Associates (January–December 2016, working on wrongful termination, employment discrimination, wage-and-hour, class-action, personal injury, and wrongful death matters), and has run Forensic Economic Services since January 2017. His publication record, per his own CV, includes: Garagulagian, Rosenbaum, and Schap, "A 2021 Survey of Forensic Experts: Their Methods, Estimates, and Perspectives," Journal of Legal Economics 28, no. 2 (2022): 3–27; and Nelson, von Hippel, Peterson, and Garagulagian, "The Great Recession or progressive energy policies? Explaining the decline in US greenhouse gas emissions forecasts," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 59, no. 3 (2016): 480–500. He has presented at multiple Western Economic Association International, American Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, and American Academy of Economic and Financial Experts conferences between 2017 and 2023 on topics including unemployment duration in wrongful termination cases, credit-damage mitigation, economic-hardship analysis for immigration (I-601A) matters, blockage discounts for thinly traded stock-based compensation, and COVID-19 economic effects. His practice centers on quantifying lost earnings and lost profits arising from death, injury, or wrongful conduct, plus antitrust, business valuation, business interruption, elder financial abuse, fraud investigation, and securities-related economic damages. JurisPro lists 580 total retentions over roughly 10 years (60% plaintiff / 40% defense), 83 depositions, 24 court qualifications, and 3 trial/arbitration testimonies, with fees of $500/hour for consulting, $1,000–$2,000/hour for deposition, and $1,500–$3,000 per half/full trial day.
Credentials & Certifications
- Ph.D. Economics (2016); adjunct professor of finance
Fee Schedule
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