Dr. Sama Agrawal is a labor economist and Practice Lead who specializes in applying economic and statistical analysis to complex employment matters. Her work focuses on wage-and-hour liability, statistical analyses of alleged discrimination, economic damages, and mitigation.
She works extensively with large-scale employment datasets, including payroll and timekeeping records, HRIS data, application and requisition data, compensation data, and performance evaluations. Her analyses address employment practices and outcomes across the full employment lifecycle, hiring, compensation, promotion, and termination, and are used to assess liability, quantify damages, and inform litigation strategy.
Dr. Agrawal has been retained as an expert in employment litigation and has provided expert testimony. She supports counsel across all stages of litigation, including class certification, mediation, and trial.
Her experience includes matters involving alleged pay disparities, hiring and promotion decisions, and wage-and-hour claims, where she has analyzed compensation structures, hours-worked data, and workforce outcomes using large-scale employment datasets.