Promoting and enhancing the quality of impartial workplace investigations.™
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Total Credits: 1.0 CA MCLE, 1.0 HRCI Credits, 1.0 SHRM
The question is no longer whether you are using AI. It is how, and whether you can back it up. Both your business leadership and your clients are asking, and the answer carries real consequences.
This webinar will give you a practical view of the investigative AI landscape and concrete strategies for integrating these tools in a way that holds up when it matters most. Whether you are in-house, navigating this in real time, or an external investigator, rethinking what to expect from your partners, the stakes are the same.
Learning Objectives:
After attending the session, participants will be able to:
All registrants will have acces to a recording of the webinar 48 hours after the live program.
Disclaimer:
The contents of this webinar and the positions taken are those of the presenter only, may be time-sensitive, and are not warranted, endorsed or otherwise recommended by AWI and are not intended to provide legal advice.
California MCLEs: 1.0
HR (General) Credits: 1.0
SHRM PDCs: 1.0
Bobby Williams is a data humanist with more than 25 years of experience in eDiscovery, digital forensics, thought leadership, and tech education. For Bobby, data is the tool, but people are the focus. As a trusted advisor and data strategist at iDiscovery Solutions, Inc. (iDS) Bobby has extensive experience testifying, teaching, speaking, presenting, leading workshops, and mentoring on a range of topics. He has served the public and private sectors as a consultant, teacher, technologist, and expert, since 2001. Bobby has played an integral role in hundreds of digital forensics and data science driven matters, all helping him, and his clients gain insights into the actions and processes of people. Bobby leverages his experience to consult on, develop and analyze structured data systems, reconstruct events and understand the roles of the people involved, all while providing strategic consultation for AI deployment, data governance, investigations, incident response, and expert testimony.
Bobby leads organizations to help empower people, improve collaboration, optimize opportunities, and create more inclusive environments.
Hunter McMahon is President of iDiscovery Solutions (iDS), an expert-led consulting firm whose work is summed up as Truth Through Data. iDS brings a bench of experts in digital forensics, eDiscovery, structured data analytics, and expert testimony to high-stakes disputes, investigations, and regulatory matters, and it advises legal teams on putting AI to work without losing expert judgment. The firm describes its model as experts led by experts. Since Founder and CEO Dan Regard started iDS in 2008, the firm has worked on more than 3,000 matters, from a single mobile device to cases involving as many as 450,000 plaintiffs and billions of data records.
Hunter came up through that model. Before becoming President, he served as a testifying expert and led the iDS data analytics team, focusing on structured data in domestic and international disputes. He has provided expert reports, declarations, and testimony in federal and state matters on mobile device data, forensic artifacts, structured data sources, and eDiscovery costs. His client work includes cross-border investigations, national wage-and-hour class actions, and regulatory responses. He holds a J.D. from the University of La Verne College of Law and a B.A. in Political Science from Azusa Pacific University, and he is a Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT). His professional affiliations include The Sedona Conference Working Groups 1, 6, and 11.
Hunter is the author of The 5-Year-Old CEO: The Power of Childlike Curiosity in Leadership, a member of the Forbes Business Council, and a contributor to Today's General Counsel, where he has written on deploying AI in the legal department and why human expertise still matters. In his TEDx talk, "Caffeinated with Curiosity," delivered at TEDxBathUniversity in 2025, he makes the case for the principle that shapes how he leads: be curious, not judgmental.
Dr. Dwayne E. Smith, AWI-CH is an External Attorney Investigator and Founder of Workplace Law Solutions.
Workplace Law Solutions specializes in providing comprehensive legal services and consulting in areas such as workplace investigations, education consulting, and collegiate athlete representation.
Workplace Law Solutions provides independent workplace investigations on behalf of employers regarding allegations of harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and professional misconduct.
Dwayne was the Director of Compliance with Liberty Public Schools (LPS) from 2018-2024. He was the district designee for Civil Rights Investigations, for Title VI, Title VII, Title IX, Section 504 and ADA for purposes of ensuring compliance with federal and state law as well as board policy. Dwayne conducted over one hundred (100) internal investigations during his time at LPS.
Dwayne spent ten years as a high school administrator and prior to becoming an educator, eighteen years in the private sector in the areas of Product Management and Contract Negotiations and a former Jackson County (Missouri), Assistant Prosecuting Attorney.
Dwayne is an adjunct professor at Saint Louis University, School of Education, teaching Advanced School Law. He is licensed to practice law in Missouri and Kansas.
Dwayne is a member of the Society of Human Resources (SHRM – SCP) and the Association of Workplace Investigators (AWI-CH) and holds certificates with both organizations.