Kristin Kucsma, M.A.

Kristin Kucsma, M.A., is a Principal of SobelCo., and Chief Economist of the Sobel Tinari Economics Group. Ms. Kucsma oversees the group’s team of award-winning economists and experienced analysts. Ms. Kucsma joined the Tinari Economics Group in January 2008 and, since then, has worked extensively on cases involving personal injury, wrongful death, employment law, wrongful incarceration, mass torts, punitive damages and lost profits. Her ability to explain complicated economic analysis clearly and simply makes Ms. Kucsma an effective expert witness. She works regularly with both plaintiff and defense attorneys, and lectures frequently on valuing economic damages. Ms. Kucsma has testified in over 850 depositions, trials, mediations and arbitrations, and has offered economic expert testimony in various state and federal district courts throughout the country.

Prior to joining the Sobel Tinari Economics Group, Ms. Kucsma spent over 13 years teaching economics at the undergraduate and graduate level at Saint Peter’s College, Rutgers, Seton Hall and Drew Universities. Her areas of expertise include American Economic History, Applied Micro Economic Theory, banking and financial markets and corporate finance. Ms. Kucsma is an active member of the National Association of Forensic Economics and the Eastern Economics Association, a member of the American Economics Association, and a former Member of the District Ethics Committee, Office of Attorney Ethics of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. She earned a B.A., summa cum laude, in Economics from Seton Hall University, an M.A. from Rutgers University, and currently is ABD at Rutgers University.