Elisa Olivieri

Principal

Contact

  • Chicago

Education

Elisa Olivieri coheads the labor and discrimination practice at Cornerstone Research. Dr. Olivieri specializes in labor economics and antitrust. She has expertise in matters involving race, gender, and age discrimination claims in hiring, promotions, and pay. She also analyzes competition issues in labor markets, including the effects that proposed mergers may have on workers.

Dr. Olivieri has extensive experience leading economic analysis in antitrust matters more broadly, including class certification, liability, and damages analyses in cases alleging monopolization and exclusionary conduct. In addition, she analyzes a range of merger-related issues, including market definition, competitive effects, and potential mitigating factors associated with mergers.

Antitrust and competition

Dr. Olivieri analyzes class certification, liability, and damages in antitrust and competition matters. Her experience includes:

Labor, discrimination, and employment

Dr. Olivieri addresses class certification, damages, hiring, compensation, and promotion issues in high-profile labor economics matters. Representative experience includes:

  • Analyzing labor market definition and the competitive effects that proposed mergers may have on workers
  • Providing economic and statistical support from the discovery phase through trial in Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College et al.
  • Consulting with educational institutions to model their admissions processes and assess the role of race and legacy status in admissions
  • Assessing alleged algorithmic racial bias in online advertising
  • Analyzing alleged gender discrimination in pay and promotions at large employers
  • Analyzing alleged racial discrimination in pay at a large university
  • Assessing alleged age discrimination in hiring
  • Calculating damages involving lost wages
Pro bono

Dr. Olivieri is involved with the firm’s pro bono initiatives. She has worked on a veterans advocacy matter involving damages associated with lost wages and a matter analyzing racial bias in the placement of police roadblocks.

W@Competition has recognized Dr. Olivieri as an “up-and-coming” woman professional in the competition space.

Press Release

Cornerstone Research Promotes Ten Senior Staff to Principal

Case

Pro Bono: Veterans Advocacy in Lost Wages Litigation

Case

Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College et al.

Case

Fresenius Kabi USA LLC v. Par Sterile Products LLC et al.

Case

FTC v. Wilhelmsen et al.

Case

Proposed Merger of Aetna and Humana Enjoined

  • “The Fundamentals of Pricing,” American Bar Association, 19 November 2019
  • Women@ Initiative for “Up-And-Coming” Women Competition Professionals, 17 June 2019