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ALM EXPERTS: Midwestern Edition 2022 NON-MEDICAL RESUMES

Dr. Palmer Morrel-Samuels

MA, MPhil, PhD, MSc in Law
210 Park. St.
Chelsea, MI 48118
Phone: (734) 368-3348
Email: [email protected]

Dr. Morrel-Samuels received an MA in research methodology from the University of
Chicago, as well as an M. Phil. and a Ph.D. in experimental social psychology from Columbia NON-MEDICAL RESUMES
University. He also has MSL degree (A Master of Science in Law) from Northwestern Pritzker
School of Law.
He is one of the few expert witnesses in the country whose work occupies the
intersection of three areas: the psychometrics of assessment design, statistical analysis of "big data"
analytics, and disparate impact, disparate treatment, harassment, or retaliation in the workplace. He
has more than 30 years’ experience designing and analyzing assessments for employees in
government and large corporations. He often serves as a Lecturer at the University of Michigan,
where he teaches graduate-level classes on survey design, statistics, and research methodology.
Other previous academic appointments include faculty positions at Columbia and the
University of Michigan Business School. In addition, he has held research positions at IBM, HP,
the University of Chicago, and Yale. His published articles have appeared in The Journal of
Experimental Psychology, Behavioral Research Methods, Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, The Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, California Management Review,
Physician Executive, and, Harvard Business Review, among others; (his first HBR article was on
the design of assessments in the workplace, and his second was on web-based surveys.) Practical
experience includes assessment services for non-profit organizations, (e.g., Blue Cross-Blue
Shield), government agencies (e.g., the Department of Justice), and numerous Fortune 500
companies (e.g., FedEx, GM, California Edison, Bank of America, Xerox, Sprint, Coca-Cola,
Sears, and Disney). He is the author of four patented employee assessments, and has been an
expert resource for the New York Times, Detroit News, and the Wall Street Journal.
Dr. Morrel-Samuels has testified to Congress on employee motivation and its linkage
to objective performance metrics; he has also served as an expert witness for both plaintiffs and
defendants by providing statistical analysis of very large datasets in four types of lawsuits:
employment discrimination cases; contract disputes, pension lawsuits, and litigation pertaining to
decision making based on surveys, assessments, or employee evaluations. He assisted the NAACP
in its amicus brief for the Ricci discrimination case in New Haven, was the sole statistician in a
successful $64M breach of contract case (Tower Automotive v. UNOVA) that required analyzing 4
million rows of data, testified as an expert witness at the ICC’s International Court of Arbitration in
The Hague, provided statistical analysis in a large pension lawsuit involving the Miami Police
Department, successfully withstood all nine Daubert challenges filed against him in Federal Court,
and recently served as the EEOC’s expert witness in one of its landmark discrimination cases.
In addition to his teaching responsibilities at the University of Michigan he is also
CEO of EMPA (SurveysForBusiness.com), a company that has designed and analyzed assessments
for more than 7 million employees in over 70 countries.

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