Debra J. Aron

She has provided expert testimony for over 20 years in a variety of high-stakes federal, state, regulatory, and arbitration cases relating to unfair competition; market definition; price fixing; consumer fraud; patent and copyright infringement; theft of trade secrets; and contract disputes. She has calculated damages under principles of lost profits, reasonable royalties, and unjust enrichment. She also has conducted competition analyses in several high-profile mergers and macroeconomic analyses of pricing changes and investment in emerging technologies.

Dr. Aron’s work spans many industries, including energy, consumer beverages, big-box retailing, consumer products, and manufactured products. She has a particular expertise in communications, media, and technology. Her work in this area includes antitrust, intellectual property (patents, trade secrets, and copyrights), class actions brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), breach of contract, and regulatory matters involving wireless telecommunications services, wireline telecommunications services, broadband services, satellite services, wireless handsets, network equipment, telephone numbering systems, intercarrier compensation, universal service regulation, regulatory pricing and cost analysis, computer hardware, computer software, newspapers, and maps.