Sarah Butler, Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting to Speak at Knowledge Congress Event

Nov. 26, 2012 - PRLog -- The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced today that Sarah Butler, Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting, will speak at a 2-hour webcast entitled “Advertising Law: What's New for 2013 and Beyond? LIVE Webcast.” This event is scheduled for December 4, 2012 from 12pm-2pm (ET).

About Sarah Butler

Ms. Butler is an expert in survey research, sampling, market research, statistical analysis, and database analysis. She has applied her expertise in a wide range of projects and litigation cases. In the area of intellectual property, she has focused on survey research and analysis related to trademarks, patents, and false advertising including surveys to establish likelihood of confusion, secondary meaning, and dilution. In the antitrust area, she has designed and evaluated surveys offered to estimate market shares and as evidence of cross shopping behaviors. She has also reviewed secondary market research, with a focus on evaluating its reliability as evidence in antitrust analyses. In antitrust, as well as the areas of water and the environment, Ms. Butler has designed and evaluated complex willingness to pay and hypothetical choice surveys.

In mass torts, her experience includes asbestos, tobacco, and pharmaceuticals. She has worked extensively with large databases of claims files to generate invoices, estimate future liabilities, and calculate policy shares for insurer liabilities. Ms. Butler has also examined demographic and epidemiological data for pharmaceutical litigation. She has conducted surveys of consumers, physicians, and IT professionals, and has designed samples using insurance records, legal documents, real estate transactions, and radio play lists.

Prior to joining NERA, Ms. Butler worked in market research, conducting survey research, focus groups, and in-depth interviews.

About NERA Economic Consulting

NERA Economic Consulting is a global firm of experts dedicated to applying economic, finance, and quantitative principles to complex business and legal challenges. For over half a century, NERA’s experts have been creating strategies, studies, reports, expert testimony, and policy recommendations for government authorities and the world’s leading law firms and corporations. We bring academic rigor, objectivity, and real world industry experience to bear on issues arising from competition, regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation.

To know more about Sarah Butler and NERA Economic Consulting please visit www.nera.com

About The Knowledge Group, LLC/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series

The Knowledge Congress is a series of live webcasts produced by The Knowledge Group, LLC, which examine trends, regulatory, and technology changes across a variety of industries. Its mission is to produce unbiased, objective, and educational live webcasts that examine industry trends and regulatory changes from a variety of different perspectives. The goal is to deliver a unique multilevel analysis of an important issue affecting business in a highly focused format.

The organization brings together the world's leading authorities and industry participants through informative two-hour webcasts to study the impact of changes and emerging trends. Hear from leading government officials/regulators, key thought leaders, and industry experts objectively analyze the latest trends and issues and their impact on industries.  For further details, please visit the organization’s website: www.knowledgecongress.org