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Dr. O'Hara is trained in the fields of law and of economics. His current research focus is forensic economics. In June 2012 the American Rehabilitation Economics Association ( AREA) welcomed the cooperation of the Collegium of Pecuniary Damages Experts ( CPDE) in the production of AREA's scholarly journal The Earnings Analyst . AREA has appointed Bob Male as the managing Editor and CPDE has appointed Michael J. O'Hara as the Co-Editor; we served through 2016 and volume 15. In March 2011 Dr. O'Hara was elected by the CPDE members to its office of Secretary and to the CPDE Board of Directors; then in 2014 through the officer sequence of Vice President, President, and Past President; and 2017 elected Secretary. Starting in 2011, Dr. O'Hara joined the the Board of Directors of the Nebraska Economics and Business Association . In October 2012 and again in 2016 he was elected to the officer rotation of NEBA, starting in the annual office of President-Elect. Between April 2005 and December 2007, Dr. O'Hara served as Editor of the Journal of Legal Economics , the journal of the American Academy of Economic and Financial Experts . As Editor he produced volume 13, number 2 through volume 14, number 2. From 2003 until 2007 Dr. O'Hara served on the AAEFE Board of Directors. Within forensic economics, Dr. O'Hara has initiated a research agenda focused on business loses. Currently, he is serving on the Nebraska Board of Optometry; from which he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry ( ARBO). His committee work within ARBO includes the OE Tracker Committee, the Council on Optometric Practitioner Education (COPE), and on ARBO's Judicial Council / Resolutions Committee. In the past, his research agendas also have included anti-trust law, beekeeping, franchising law and economics, telecommunications, technology transfer, and faculty retirement. Dr. O'Hara has substantial real-world experience in the regulation and management of electric utilities. By gubernatorial appointment ...