Richard Day Research, Inc.

The perspective we bring to legal projects is over 35 years and 2,000 separate studies. Providing research services to the legal profession is a small but important part of our work.

Most of the work for the legal profession has involved critiquing the survey research work of opposing counsel, designing and executing surveys on behalf of counsel, pretesting studies and providing advice.

In addition to the breadth and depth of research experience, Richard Day brings a broader resume.  Richard Day is President of Richard Day Research, founded in 1974. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1979. Dr. Day has designed research projects for clients ranging from Fidelity Investments to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Dr. Day is past Chair of CASRO (Council of American Survey Research Organizations) the trade organization of the largest survey research companies in the country. He recently served on the Board of the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He is the Past Chair of the Environmental Law and Policy Center. He has written chapters in four books, and contributed articles to Public Opinion Quarterly, Illinois Issues, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun-Times. He has presented papers at numerous conferences, most recently at the International Conference on Survey Non Response in Copenhagen in 2002, and at the World Association of Public Opinion Research in 2004 in Phoenix.

Richard Day has provided pre election polling and election night analysis for ABC Channel 7 in Chicago for 35 years.