Bryan Ricchetti is the CEO of Cornerstone Research and serves on the firm’s board of directors. Dr. Ricchetti formerly coheaded the firm’s economics practices and, previously, served as cohead of the antitrust and competition practice.
Dr. Ricchetti specializes in antitrust and labor matters, with a focus on economic and statistical issues when assessing antitrust impact, market definition, market power, class certification, hiring and compensation decisions, and alleged discrimination. His industry expertise includes technology, online commerce, online search, retail, food and agriculture, education, and sports.
As an expert witness, Dr. Ricchetti has been retained to analyze questions of antitrust impact and damages, and the procompetitive effects of a horizontal agreement. He has been deposed multiple times and has testified at trial in U.S. federal court.
In 2024, Consulting Magazine named Dr. Ricchetti to its list of Top Consultants, recognizing him for “above and beyond” leadership across multiple categories, disciplines, and offices. Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) has recognized Dr. Ricchetti as a Global Elite Thought Leader and has recommended him as a leading competition economist. In 2025, he was also honored with Lexology’s Client Choice recognition.
Antitrust and competition
Dr. Ricchetti consults on competition matters involving horizontal price fixing, vertical exclusionary practices, and attempted monopolization or monopsony, among other issues. His recent case experience includes engagements in competition in the technology industry, including online search and online commerce. Representative matters include:
- In re Broiler Chicken Grower Antitrust Litigation
- American President Lines v. Matson
- United States v. Brewbaker
- Southeastern Milk Antitrust Litigation
Dr. Ricchetti also works extensively on labor monopsony issues, including multiple class actions alleging violations of no-poach agreements. For example, he supported expert testimony in no-poach matters involving McDonald’s and Jimmy John’s. He consulted on a no-poach matter involving defense contractor firms, and assessed the effects of an alleged recruiting and hiring conspiracy between competing technology companies.
Complex discrimination and labor
Dr. Ricchetti works on high-profile matters involving the application of statistical analysis to claims of discrimination. In the closely followed Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College et al., Dr. Ricchetti supported expert testimony related to statistical analyses of alleged discrimination in Harvard’s admissions process.
Dr. Ricchetti has significant experience applying statistical analyses to discrimination claims in various labor markets. He has analyzed pay and promotion outcomes in class action litigation in the financial services, retail, and tech sectors, among other industries. Representative matters include:
- Dukes et al. v Walmart Stores Inc.
- Phipps et al. v Walmart Stores Inc.
- Morgan et al. v. U.S. Soccer Federation Inc.
- Heldt et al. v. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
- Class Certification Analysis in Employment Discrimination Litigation
Dr. Ricchetti supported expert testimony related to the economics of the business format franchise model in Patel v. 7-Eleven, a matter involving worker classification under Massachusetts state law.
Pro bono
On behalf of the ACLU of Mississippi, Dr. Ricchetti provided expert testimony in Brown et al. v. Madison County, Mississippi, analyzing the placement of police roadblocks in predominantly African-American neighborhoods in Madison County, Mississippi. Dr. Ricchetti submitted an expert report on behalf of a United States army veteran who sued a college for damages associated with lost wages, after the institution failed to properly file Veterans Affairs financial aid paperwork.
Research and publications
Dr. Ricchetti presents and publishes research on economic and statistical issues that arise in litigation. Together with Justin McCrary of Columbia Law School, Dr. Ricchetti coauthored “Accounting for the Employee-Employer Relationship in Antitrust Analysis,” published in ABA Antitrust Magazine.
He coauthored “Applying Econometrics to Assess Market Definition and Market Power,” a chapter in the ABA Section of Antitrust Law’s handbook on Econometrics: Legal, Practical, and Technical Issues (Second Edition).
Before joining Cornerstone Research, Dr. Ricchetti was an economist at the U.S. Census Bureau and an analyst at MDRC, a public policy think tank.
- Victory at Class Certification Phase in Healthcare Labor Antitrust Litigation
- American President Lines v. Matson
- Class Certification Denied in Two Seminal Discrimination Matters involving Walmart
- Hunter et al. v. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. et al.
- Patel v. 7-Eleven
- United States v. Brewbaker
- Pro Bono: Veterans Advocacy in Lost Wages Litigation
- No-Poach Clauses in QSR Litigation
- Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College et al.
- Heldt et al. v. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
- Morgan et al. v. U.S. Soccer Federation Inc.
- Allegations of “No-Poach” Hiring Agreement Between Tech Firms
- Pro Bono: Brown et al. v. Madison County, Mississippi
- Class Certification Analysis in Employment Discrimination Litigation
- Shuffle Tech International LLC et al. v. Scientific Games Corp. et al.
- Southeastern Milk Antitrust Litigation
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