COSAL Luncheon Insights: Econometrics Primer for Young Lawyers

On Monday, February 9, 2026, COSAL's Young Lawyers Division hosted a practical primer on statistics, antitrust damages, and economic regressions. Our featured speaker was Evan Starr, Professor of Management & Organization at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Professor Starr holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan and studies issues at the intersection of employee mobility, innovation, and firm behavior. His recent work examines noncompete agreements, training, earnings, and entrepreneurship using large-scale employer-employee data, and he is also the plaintiffs’ quantitative econometrics expert in the Med Center no-poach antitrust class action litigation. 

Dr. Starr provided lawyer-friendly primer on the fundamentals of econometrics, damages models, and economic regressions — what they are, how they’re used, and how to better understand, and challenge expert analysis.