Dr. Mona Birjandi is an economist specializing in the application of microeconomic theory and econometric methods to complex litigation matters involving labor and employment.
As the head of Outten & Golden’s Economics and Data Analytics team, she founded and built the department from the ground up, growing it from a team of one to a multidisciplinary team of economists and data scientists, and leads the firm’s efforts to leverage economic analysis, statistical modeling, AI, machine learning, and other tools to support the firm’s employment and digital discrimination cases and investigations. In particular, her work focuses on the production and analysis of data throughout the negotiation, e-discovery, litigation, and mediation process, including for impact and damage calculations, expert testimony, and the development of data-driven legal arguments.
Dr. Birjandi also serves as Chair of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Litigation Economics Group, where she led the inaugural Econ + Law Summit—the first event of its kind convening economists and legal practitioners around the evolving role of data, analytics, and expert evidence in modern litigation.
Prior to joining Outten & Golden, Dr. Birjandi combined extensive experience in economic consulting and corporate analytics. As a senior economist in consulting, Dr. Birjandi conducted economic and statistical analyses across a wide range of labor and employment issues and worked on cases throughout all phases of pretrial and trial practice. Dr. Birjandi later served as the Principal Economist at Petco Health and Wellness. While there, she collaborated with an interdisciplinary team of data scientists and executives on data projects aimed at optimizing the company’s pricing and business strategies.
Dr. Birjandi earned both a Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Yale University and an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University.
