Promoting and enhancing the quality of impartial workplace investigations.™
Credit Available - See Credits tab below.
Total Credits: 1.0 CA MCLE, 1.0 HRCI Credits, 1.0 SHRM
Session Description:
This session sets out helpful strategies and best practices for dealing with these challenging scenarios.
Learning Objective:
Through attending this session, participants will become better equipped for dealing with reluctant witnesses.
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
| AWI Reluctant Witness Handouts 2024 (352.8 KB) | 17 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Jessica is a Partner in KPMG Law’s Workplace Law group and leads the Workplace Investigations team.
Jessica is a seasoned employment and labour lawyer. After her call to the Ontario Bar, Jessica acted as labour relations counsel for a municipal police union and then a large acute-care health system. She then moved to private management-side practice at Norton Rose Fulbright as Counsel. Following this, Jessica joined Deloitte Legal to build the Employment and Labour practice.
Jessica is an experienced workplace investigator and has been involved in a large number of workplace investigations. She is an AWI Certificate Holder (AWI-CH) and has certificates from RT Institute on conducting workplace assessments and sexual harassment and violence investigations. She has provided external training on various topics related to workplace investigations including reluctant witnesses, bias, procedural fairness, and general best practices.
Jessica has appeared in hundreds of labour arbitrations and administrative law proceedings. She taught labour law at Osgoode Hall from 2012 to 2016, and labour advocacy at the University of Ottawa Law School in 2022.
Jessica is licensed to practice law in British Columbia and Ontario.
Jessica has experience in conducting a broad range of workplace investigation and assessments for federally and provincially regulated employers and organizations including public sector and private sector clients.
Some examples of the sectors Jessica has experience conducting investigations for includes: provincial Crown corporations, provincial government agencies, education sector, sports organizations, federal Crown corporations, international manufacturing organization, and international data center organization.
Jessica has experience in conducting a wide range of workplace investigations, including into allegations of:
Stephanie White is the co-founder of Lincoln White Investigations (“LWI”), a law firm committed to providing high-quality, unbiased workplace and student investigations that are thorough, reliable, and timely. Stephanie has over 12 years of experience conducting complex investigations into claims of sexual misconduct and harassment (including Title IX), discrimination, bullying, retaliation, and other issues that may arise in the workplace, or an educational setting. Prior to founding LWI, Stephanie was a partner at a California law firm that specialized in education law. There, she chaired the firm's Community College and Title IX practice areas and oversaw a wide variety of employment and student matters.