News  |  November 24, 2025

The Price Is Right… Until It Isn’t: Navigating Construction Cost Escalation

Cost escalation has emerged as a significant, and prevalent, issue in the construction industry, driven by post-pandemic global supply chain disruptions, inflationary pressures, and geopolitical events. As escalation claims continue to reshape the industry, it is essential for project owners, employers, contractors, and legal professionals to understand the root causes of escalation claims and how to adopt practical, evidence-based strategies to successfully navigate disputes on construction contracts.

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News  |  November 24, 2025

Secretariat Expert Looks at WNBA Salary Negotiations Through an Economist’s Lens in Feature for The Boston Globe

Managing Director Allan Ingraham was featured in a recent article in The Boston Globe providing economic analysis of WNBA player compensation and demonstrating that players are significantly underpaid relative to the league’s current market value.

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Article  |  November 18, 2025

Grasping Ephemeral Messaging

Managing Directors Michael Koenig and David Craig, writing in the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Magazine, examine the accelerating rise of ephemeral messaging and its growing impact on compliance, investigations, and litigation.

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News  |  November 10, 2025

New York and California Step Forward as Federal Enforcement Retreats

As federal regulatory priorities narrow under the Trump administration, state attorneys general and financial regulators are preparing to take on a more active role in white collar and securities enforcement. With the DOJ and the SEC recalibrating their focus, states such as New York and California are asserting their authority to fill gaps in corporate oversight.

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Article  |  November 7, 2025

Policy News and Stock Market Volatility

When it comes to explaining stock market volatility, the story is rarely straightforward. In their article Policy News and Stock Market Volatility for the Journal of Financial Economics, Director Kyle Kost and coauthors Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis revisit Robert Shiller’s 1981 finding that stock market fluctuations cannot be fully explained by realized future dividends.

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News  |  October 28, 2025

The Premier League’s Red Card: Disciplinary Investigations, Commissions, Arbitration — and the Role of Experts

This article focuses on the two main dispute mechanisms under the Premier League’s Rules: disciplinary proceedings under Rule W and arbitration under Rule X. The article also looks at the role of experts in both sets of proceedings.

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News  |  October 22, 2025

Lexology Index Ranks 20 Secretariat Experts, Including Top Number of Global Elite Thought Leaders, in 2025 Thought Leaders – Construction Report

Secretariat is thrilled to announce that 20 of our experts have been recognized as premier Construction professionals in the Lexology Index 2025 Thought Leaders – Construction report, including a leading number of Global Elite Thought Leaders (12).

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News  |  October 17, 2025

Secretariat Experts Receive Recognition in Lexology Index Thought Leaders – USA 2026

Secretariat is proud to share that 11 of our experts have been named as USA Thought Leaders in Lexology Index’s 2026 listing.

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Article  |  October 16, 2025

Understanding Difference-in-Differences and Choosing The Best Tool For Antitrust Economic Analyses

Econometrics, the application of statistical methods to economic data, can be instrumental in the identification of anticompetitive behavior by assisting in analyses including the assessment of market power, the evaluation of competitive effects resulting from alleged anticompetitive conduct, and the quantification of damages.

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News  |  October 15, 2025

Tamika Tremaglio Named as One of the Most Powerful Women in Washington by Washingtonian Magazine

Secretariat Managing Director Tamika Tremaglio has been named as one of the Most Powerful Women in Washington by Washingtonian Magazine. 

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Article  |  October 14, 2025

PMFNs and Competition

Most Favored Nation (MFN) clauses are contractual provisions that were historically invoked between countries in treaties and trade agreements, promising, for example, that any lowering of tariffs on any trading partner would apply to all the most favored nations bound by the MFN agreement (hence the use of the term “nations”).

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Article  |  October 13, 2025

Quality Considerations in the Economic Analysis of Market Definition

In Antitrust analysis in the United States, the Small but Significant Non-Transitory Increase in Price (SSNIP) test is often a key component of market definition analysis, whether performed quantitatively or qualitatively.

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