George A. Barrett, MBA, MSRC, CRC, CVE

George A. Barrett is a practicing forensic economist and vocational evaluator in the Charleston, West Virginia office of Brookshire Barrett & Associates LLC. In his forensic practice, Mr. Barrett calculates economic damages and provides expert testimony in a wide variety of civil litigation cases in numerous jurisdictions across the nation. Primarily, these cases include lost earning capacity, lost household services, and cost of future medical care valuation appraisals in personal injury and wrongful death cases. As a forensic vocational evaluator, Mr. Barrett is qualified to conduct client interviews and vocational testing related to the assessment of post-injury earning capacity in personal injury litigation. During his practice, Mr. Barrett has provided expertise in several notable cases, including Virginia Richardson, a/k/a Tammy Wynette v. Marsh, et. al., U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee at Nashville, Patricia Bragg, et. al v. Col. Dana Robertson, et al. (Mountaintop Mining), U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia at Charleston, and the Sago mining cases. Mr. Barrett's research on incremental cost issues of life care planning, medical monitoring, punitive damages, and other aspects of forensic vocational economics have been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and textbooks. Mr. Barrett is currently an adjunct professor of Rehabilitation Counseling at Minnesota State University, Mankato and has previously served as an adjunct instructor of Economics at West Virginia State University.

Mr. Barrett graduated magna cum laude from West Virginia State University, earning a Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree in Economics. He then went on to earn a Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree from Marshall University. Mr. Barrett completed the Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling (MSRC) Degree from West Virginia University and achieved the professional designation as a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) and Certified Vocational Evaluation Specialist (CVE). Mr. Barrett serves on the board of referees for the Journal of Forensic Economics and the Journal of Legal Economics. He also serves on the board of directors of the American Rehabilitation Economics Association and is Editor of that organization's peer reviewed journal, The Earnings Analyst.

Prior to entering private forensic practice, Mr. Barrett was the coordinator of student assessment at West Virginia State University. As an undergraduate, he was a Governor's Honors Intern for the State of West Virginia in 1994, where he worked under the direction of Dr. Ed Merrifield in the Office of Employment Statistics at the Bureau of Employment Programs. In 1995, Mr. Barrett was one of five undergraduate students in the nation to be awarded the 'Gold Key National Outstanding Student Leadership Award" from Omicron Delta Epsilon, the International Honor Society in Economics.

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