THESE EXPERT REPORTS WERE PREPARED FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE COURT ON CLASS CERTIFICATION. NOW THAT THE CLASS HAS BEEN CERTIFIED, THE EXPERTS ARE PREPARING UPDATED REPORTS FROM 2007 TO PRESENT.
Each of these experts has substantial experience as experts in their respective fields and in class action employment discrimination cases, and each has been qualified by a number of courts to provide expert testimony. In addition, each expert has experience studying the securities industry and the employment practices of Merrill Lynch.
Labor Economist and Professor Janice Fanning Madden, and Sociologist and Professor William T. Bielby have been retained to independently review and analyze the record in this case.

Each of these experts has substantial experience as experts in their respective fields and in class action employment discrimination cases, and each has been qualified by a number of courts to provide expert testimony. In addition, each expert has experience studying the securities industry and the employment practices of Merrill Lynch.

Labor Economist Janice Fanning Madden

Robert C. Daniels Foundation Term Professor of Urban Studies, Regional Science, Sociology and Real Estate, University of Pennsylvania
Education: PhD, Duke University, 1972; MA, Duke University, 1971; BA, University of Denver, 1969
Research Areas: Urban and regional economics; labor market analysis
Representative Publication: Residential Segregation and the Economic Status of Black Workers: New Evidence for an Old Debate. Journal of Urban Economics 29 (1991)(with M. Hughes)
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Sociologist William T. Bielby

Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Former President of the American Sociological Association, 2002-2003
Education: Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin, 1976; M.A., Economics, University of Illinois, 1970; B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, 1970
Research Areas: Quantitative Methods, Organizations, Labor Markets & Discrimination, Social Stratification, Gender & Race, Media
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