Employment Expert Witnesses

This expert is the senior partner of EMA Partners New York, and a retired Partner of Ernst & Young where he was the Managing Director of the global executive search practice and senior national partner for executive compensation and human resources consulting services. He has successfully completed more than 1000 search assignments in his career across all industry sectors and within all functional fields for organizations of all sizes, and for both domestic and international organizations. He has authored numerous books on the compensation of directors, corporate governance, executive selection and executive compensation. This expert is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University. He is an accredited diplomat of the American Compensation Association, a member of the Institute of Management Consultants, Society of Human Resources Management and the Board of Advisors of the Corporate Governance Institute at Florida Atlantis University. He was named by the Association of Executive Search Consultants as a "pioneer of executive search".

This expert has frequently advised school district and other public clients concerning appropriate responses to allegations of teacher and other employee misconduct, as well as advising them after an investigation is complete concerning what actions they might wish to take depending on the findings in the investigation. She often interacts with attorneys on cases, and has extensive human resources experience, including having served as a college and school district director of human resources. Additionally, her investigation reports have been used as employer responses to rights agency investigations. She has over thirty years of leadership experience. She is able to use her technical expertise to advise her clients. She has been a senior human resources manager, an operations division leader, a consultant, and an investigator for a wide variety of businesses and organizations. In all of these settings she has applied her extensive analytical, interpersonal, and technical skills.

This expert has 40 years of experience as a wage and hour specialist. She worked for the US Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division for more than three decades, gaining extensive experience achieving compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, including white collar exemptions, regular rate in overtime computations, reconstructing hours of work, and child labor. She also has extensive experience in federal prevailing wage statutes, such as Davis Bacon, Service Contract Act and H-1B nonimmigrant employment standards. Currently, she is the Owner and Principal of her own wage and hour consulting firm, where she helps attorneys and their clients navigate the complex wage and hour laws in order to achieve compliance. She assists with conducting internal compliance audits, offers advice and support during federal and state wage investigations, and provides litigation support, including back wage estimates and expert testimony. She lectures for legal, human resource, and government agencies and holds membership in the Society for Human Resource Management, as well as the Northeast Human Resources Association.

This highly qualified expert has extensive experience in litigation matters concerning employment issues. She has testified in at least 5 cases that went to a jury. She received a B.A. in Economics from Boston College summa cum laude and a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School cum laude and was on the Law Review. Her experience as a litigator makes her a specialist in the workplace environment, and she has authored and lectured on various topics including sexual harassment, discrimination, workplace investigations, terminations, ADA, leaves of absence, and other workplace issues. She was also elected as a Fellow to the College of Labor and Employment Attorneys. Certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources, she has consulted for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She currently serves as the President for a human resource consulting firm where she has consulted various businesses and employers in various industries. She provides counsel and advice, conducts internal investigations, and conducts training. She also works with schools and universities in investigating sexual assault charges.

This expert has over 10 years of experience in the field of human resources. She earned her BA and MA from Lewis University, followed by her DBA in strategy and innovation from Capella University. She is certified in human resources development and aging services risk management and is an active member of the Society for Human Resource Management. This expert previously served as the director of human resources at Our Lady of Angels Retirement Home and Beacon Hill Lifespace Community. She was also the director of human resources at Joliet Area Community Hospice, where she oversees the policies and procedures for employees. Currently, she serves as the senior director of people services at a senior living center in Illinois.

This expert is an internationally recognized human resources expert and is a trained Ohio Drug Free Workplace trainer. She earned a JD from Taft Law School and a MBA from York College of Pennsylvania. She is well published on human resources issues, specifically relating to employment practices. She has served as the HR Vice President or Director for a number of large, for-profit and non-profit corporations and is currently the head of Human Resources for a major psychiatric institution.

This highly qualified attorney has extensive experience in the field of employment law. He was formerly in practice as a labor and employment attorney, where he frequently handled cases discussing discriminatory violations under Title VII. He regularly represented employers charged with Title VII violations before the human relations commissions, and on occasion represented the charging parties in similar cases. When he stopped practicing labor and employment law, this expert pursued a career in arbitration and mediation, where he has since mediated over 100 cases for the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, many of which involve Title VII violations.

This highly qualified attorney earned her BS in Business Administration from Georgetown University and her JD from the University of Chicago Law School. She writes about and researches issues related to corporate compliance, drawing on scholarship from the areas of professional ethics, corporate governance, employment law, and corporate social responsibility. She is currently an associate professor of law at a top midwestern law school. Before joining the law school faculty, this expert was a clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and an attorney at Gibson Dunn in Washington, D.C.

This highly qualified expert has had 30+ years of HR experience and has been a global Human Resources executive for 15+ years. She has extensive experience with Fortune 500 and mid-sized organizations across industries and cultures in areas such as employee relations and development, performance management, and compensation. She is a board member in 2 societies, an invited speaker, and she authored a published book that covers HR related topics. She is fluent in Spanish, French and Italian.

This expert has worked in labor analysis for over 35 years and has published extensively on the labor market. Previously, he worked at the U.S. Department of Labor where he received numerous Outstanding Performance/Secretary's Exceptional Achievement Awards. He has a PhD in the Economics of Human Resources and is currently Senior Consultant for an employment analysis firm. He has consulted and testified in cases for both defense and plaintiff clients, involving compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, prevailing wage laws, occupational analysis to determine proper classifications and exemption status, and determination of compensation levels.

This expert is a consultant and trainer with 10+ years experience in the area of workplace bullying/abusive conduct. She has consulted for a number of Fortune 500 companies, including the third largest energy company in the world, several hospitals and universities, several branches of the U.S. Military, and a variety of large and small businesses and government agencies. She also consulted for California and Tennessee representatives as they sought to pass laws against workplace bullying. (Both were successful). She has published in a variety of trade magazines and has appeared several times on FOX, NBC, and ABC as an expert, as well as in USA Today, Inc Magazine, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, and other major news venues. She is Past-President of the American Society of Training & Development (ASTD), San Diego Chapter, and current President of a national bullying coalition. In his book foreword, a noted speaker and consultant, called her book, the most comprehensive and valuable handbook on the topic. Her second book, provides steps to solving the problem of workplace bullying.

This expert has over 30 years of combined experience as a Human Resource executive and employment attorney. She is the co-founder and principal consultant of her own human resource consulting practice. She has conducted and/or supervised hundreds of investigations as both an in-house investigator and an outside consultant, written numerous policies and practices manuals, mediated disputes and conducted a wide variety of seminars including sexual harassment training and managing within the law. She is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Santa Clara, School of Law. In addition to her Juris Doctor, she holds a Master of Arts degree from Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens College, New York. She was an adjunct lecturer in Employment Discrimination Law at Santa Clara Law School for five years and presently teaches Employment Law at a Law School in California. She is a Senior Fellow of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the American Leadership Forum and a graduate of Leadership Santa Rosa.

This highly qualified attorney has practiced employment and labor law for 40+ years. Currently he is the President, a practicing attorney, and mediator at a global employment law and HR consulting firm. He has extensive experience with a variety of employment law matters including wrongful termination, wage and hour, class actions, breach of contract, discrimination, retaliation, workplace investigations and more. This expert has authored a number of articles in professional journal. He has authored a book and coauthored a book on lawful hiring and contracts. This expert is admitted to practice law in a number of states and has received a number of awards throughout his career. He is a member of the ABA's Section on Labor and Employment Law and International Law and the International Bar Association.This expert earned his BS from Cornell University and his JD from George Washington University.

As founder and president of a well-established human resources consultancy firm, this expert has more than 28 years of experience in human resources and general management. Among his professional credits in human resource management are the establishment of comprehensive HR departments where none previously existed; the design and installation of base and incentive compensation systems and benefits plans; the development of affirmative action plans; the development of employment policies and handbooks; the recruitment of hundreds of executive through production-level employees; and international recognition for the design and implementation of technical and management training. He has earned both Bachelors and Masters degrees and is active in World-at-Work and the Society for Human Resource Management; has served two terms as Chapter President, member of the Board of Directors, and has received a Member of the Year Award. In addition, he has served on the SHRM Pennsylvania State Council, and the SHRM Area Board of Directors. He has been awarded the Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) designation in recognition of his knowledge and professional expertise in the field of human resources. In addition, this expert has designed and presented training for HR professionals and has appeared on national and local television networks as a recognized expert in human resource and employment regulatory issues.

This highly qualified human resources professional has over 14 years of experience in his field. He earned a BA in business management with an emphasis on human resources with the University of Phoenix and an MA in organizational development from Chapman University. This expert is active in his field as a member of several professional associations including both the National Human Resources Association and the National Restaurant Association. Formerly, he served as the director of employee relations, talent acquisition, and management development at Marie Callender's and Commissary. He went on to become the senior director of human resources and government affairs at PMC, LLC./Foxtail Foods Commissaries, Perkins Restaurants, and Marie Callender's Restaurants. Currently, this expert is a human resources and compliance consultant at an HR consultancy in California.

This qualified expert has 22 years of experience in compensation consulting and specializes in employee and executive compensation matters. He earned his BS at California Polytechnic State University and is an active member of the Society of Human Resource Management. Formerly, this expert served as a compensation consultant for numerous companies and organizations including Spansion, Google, Stanford Health Care, Safeway, EVault, LinkedIn, Motorola, and UCOP. Currently, he serves as founder and principal consultant at a compensation consultancy in California that designs and advises pre-IPO, Fortune 100, and private companies on their employee and executive compensation programs.

This expert has 26 years of experience with the Oregon State Police and ample experience in teaching, human resources investigation, and public safety training. He received a BS in the administration of justice from Portland State University and a master's in education focusing on adult education from Oregon State University. This expert formerly served as a sergeant first class in the Oregon Army National Guard and as a captain in the United States Army Reserves. Following those roles, he spent 26 years with the Oregon State Police, serving as a trooper, a senior trooper, and then a patrol sergeant. He then took on a communications supervision role at the Portland Regional Dispatch Center and a part-time training position for the Salem Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Outside of these jobs, he worked as a human resources investigator for the Local Government Personnel Institute and as an adjunct professor at Concordia University and Pacific University. He has extensive experience teaching about multiculturalism and cultural diversity and even designed the first cultural diversity courses and curricula for multiple academic programs. This expert is currently an adjunct professor in fire service administration at a university and in criminal justice at a community college, as well as the owner of a training and human resources consulting firm, all in Oregon.