01 / Intake
A conflict check in 24 hours, not 24 days.
Preliminary complaint, the posture of the matter, and the key dates. You hear back with a conflict result and a preliminary scope within one business day.
The economic foundation of justice.
Economic damages, vocational analysis, and earning-capacity expertise for employment litigation, personal injury, and family law. We calculate the trajectory others miss.
15 yrs
Data science practice serving Fortune 500 corporations, startups, government agencies, and non-profits
5 institutions
Regular lectures at Cornell ILR, Columbia SPS, Carnegie Endowment, National Libraries of Medicine, HR Leadership Forum
Trilingual
English, Hebrew, Russian. Advisory work conducted internationally
The Practice
Economic loss, reconstructed.
When a career is interrupted, the loss is not a salary. It is a trajectory. We reconstruct that trajectory with the rigor a courtroom demands: past earnings, future earnings, fringe benefits, mitigation, and the present-value discount that ties it to the day of trial.
- Past and future lost earnings
- Fringe benefits, equity, deferred comp
- Mitigation, actual and imputed
- Worklife and discount-rate analysis
The Method
Three stages, documented at every turn.
Every assumption is stated. Every data source is cited. Every model is replicable. This is how a report survives Daubert and cross-examination.
02 / Model
Earnings reconstructed line by line.
Base compensation, bonus history, equity vesting, benefits. Worklife applied from BLS tables with sector adjustment. Present value discounted to trial. Every figure traceable to source.
03 / Testify
A report that reads like a brief.
Written for the trier of fact, not for other economists. Deposition and trial testimony delivered with the same plain language that opens the report.
Diana File, principal The principal
Diana File leads a team of forensic economists, human-capital specialists, and vocational experts. The firm builds damages reports that survive cross-examination.
A research and organizational psychologist, Diana has spent fifteen years building data science practices for Fortune 500 corporations, startups, government agencies, and non-profit institutions. She brings that operating discipline to the team's forensic damages work: every assumption stated, every figure traced to a source, every report built to carry on its own.
- Education
- M.A., Psychology (Hebrew University) · B.A., Psychology cum laude (Yale)
- Languages
- English · Hebrew · Russian
The Record
Writing from the practice.
Methodology notes, jurisdiction watch, case-note analysis. Published when there is something to say, not on a schedule.
Methodology · April 8, 2026
Discount rates for long-horizon loss periods: why a single blended figure invites cross
Methodology · March 14, 2026
Worklife expectancy and the C-suite: why standard tables understate executive loss
From the vault · Footnote
"A discount rate that cannot be defended in one sentence cannot be defended at all."
Diana File, 2025
Next step
Have a matter? Open a File.
Send the complaint and the key dates. Conflict check and preliminary scope back within one business day.