This webinar will expand on the key issues and considerations for investigations at a historically gender- dominated workplace. Examples and a case study will be used to focus on key concepts.
This workshop focuses on practical investigation techniques, where credibility assessment will be considered from a legal perspective, but also from a psychological theories’ perspective.
Workplace investigators should always be concerned about their safety when conducting investigations. This webinar should make you safer and may even save your life.
During this program, a neuropsychologist will explain these processes so investigators better understand how to minimize harm and maximize the information they gather in survivor interviews. Experienced workplace investigators will also discuss special considerations that may apply when assessing trauma survivor credibility.
Come learn from an experienced attorney investigator how to effectively assess credibility using factors such as plausibility, prior record, corroboration, consistency or motive.
This session will cover the legal framework governing municipal employment complaints and investigations, including the complexities of confidentiality in the context of open meetings and open records laws.
When there is an overlap between a workplace investigation and a potential criminal investigation by law enforcement, there are a host of tricky issues. This webinar will highlight these challenges for investigators, discussing different approaches for different types of cases, and provide guidance about how and when to work in concert with law enforcement, and when to move ahead on our own.
This program will explore the nuances and difficulties that arise when there are dueling complaints of bias. Our presenters will address how bias functions, how to make reliable credibility determinations, and how to leverage methods of direct elicitation to the benefit of fact-finding. Participants will walk away with the tools necessary to sift through contesting testimony to arrive at the best possible reconstruction of what took place—and how to respond.
This webinar will explore the ethical issues that in-house attorneys, external counsel, investigators and plaintiffs' or complainants' attorney face when conducting, supervising and representing parties in workplace investigations.