Cara L. Brown
B.A. (HONS.), M.A.

Cara Brown began her career in forensic economics in 1988. Ms. Brown established her own consulting firm in 1995. Since then, Ms. Brown has been responsible for creating and structuring court-ready assessments in civil litigation arising from all manner of interruptions (motor vehicle accident, medical malpractice, slip & fall, aviation accidents, sexual assault, wrongful confinement, wrongful imprisonment, and oppression actions). Ms. Brown has also testified several times in estate dispute cases. In addition to producing reports and testifying on their behalf, Ms. Brown has undertaken a great deal of research, advancing the field of forensic economics in Canada by publishing Damages: Estimating Pecuniary Loss by Thomson Reuters (currently in its 34+ edition) and contributing peer-reviewed articles to numerous journals, such as the Journal of Forensic Economics, Journal of Legal Economics, Alberta Law Review, UBC Law Review, and The Advocates’ Quarterly.

Ms. Brown is the sole author of all critiques of other expert work and is routinely asked to compose sample questions for direct evidence and cross-examination of economic evidence. Brown Economic’s specialty is the melding of Canadian case law with forensic economic principles, which ensures that all reports that are prepared will be helpful to the court and contain the court-endorsed methodologies for quantifying economic loss damages.