Jennifer Vanderhart is Managing Director at Secretariat. As a Ph.D. Economist based in Washington, D.C., she provides a range of services, including litigation support services and economic consulting. Dr. Vanderhart has more than 25 years’ experience in the evaluation and quantification of economic damages including claims arising from patent, copyright and trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, contract disputes, employment discrimination, and claims of expropriation by foreign governments.
Her clients include companies in a wide range of industries and retail sectors, including computer hardware and software, retail merchandising, durable goods, education, toys, medical devices, alcoholic beverage distribution, and financial services. Dr. Vanderhart has testified in federal and state courts and in domestic and international arbitration proceedings. She has assisted companies in patent and trademark licensing negotiations, royalty investigations and calculations, and intellectual property and asset valuations.
Jennifer has been named in the IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals and in the Lexology Index: Consulting Experts – Quantum of Damages. She is the vice-chair of the DC Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society (USA & Canada), and she helped to develop the Intro to Damages course.