Workplace Investigations
Workplace investigations are often prompted by employee and non-employee complaints. Complaints can involve employees, board members, independent contractors, vendors, customers/patients, financial supporters, and others. Many complaints trigger protections under a myriad of laws. Investigations help manage and resolve complaints and are often legally required or recommended to minimize an employer’s legal risk.
At KSB Law, our investigative techniques involve gathering facts, analyzing relevant data, evaluating credibility, and rendering sound, reasoned findings of fact. Using our skills as neutrals, we provide a thorough assessment of the relevant information so that the decision-makers can make appropriate and informed decisions.
CONDUCTING INVESTIGATIONS AS NEUTRALS
KSB Law routinely conducts independent investigations where our attorneys serve as neutral investigators. Our investigations encompass a wide array of internal and external complaints, including harassment, discrimination, retaliation, bullying, and work-related misconduct, as well as fraud, waste, abuse, and time theft allegations.
Our experienced attorneys are well versed in protections under a broad range of employment laws, including those related to discrimination, harassment, retaliation, equal pay, whistleblowing, and wage and leave protections.
COMPLEX & C-SUITE INVESTIGATIONS
We investigate matters at all employee levels, including complex investigations involving the highest levels of management (C-suite) and legal compliance professionals, such as chief executive officers, presidents, vice presidents, lawyers and members of legal departments, human resources and compliance personnel, executive directors, school administrators, and board members. Our investigations often include matters anticipated to result in litigation and/or involve pending litigation.
GLOBAL & NATIONAL COMPANIES
We conduct investigations in a wide array of industries in the private, public, and non-profit sectors and for a wide range of private/public companies, organizations, law firms, academic institutions, and government entities. Our team has experience conducting investigations on behalf of large national and global companies, including Fortune 500 companies.
INVESTIGATION TRAINING & PROTOCOLS
KSB Law attorneys can also provide training to in-house investigators as part of HR on Trial, our signature investigation and training workshop.
HR on Trial is a cutting-edge Investigation Workshop that we developed as a training tool to assist organizations in navigating a variety of challenges that arise when handling employment complaints and conducting investigations. It is designed to foster effective, prompt, thorough, impartial, and fair investigations and educate internal teams to help them avoid common pitfalls and to remediate complaints successfully. We also help organizations create investigation policies, practices, protocols, toolkits, and playbooks.
AUDITS
The Firm also conducts audits to assess the effectiveness of the employer’s training and investigation process, provide advice on investigation practices, and offer guidance for implementing preventative and remedial actions following investigations.
EXPERT WITNESS SERVICES
We prepare comprehensive expert reports and provide expert witness testimony on the efficacy of investigations for litigation matters.
WORKPLACE CULTURE/CLIMATE ASSESSMENTS
Another way to alleviate potential workplace conflicts and tensions is by evaluating the workplace environment. KSB Law evaluates and makes recommendations on the workplace culture and climate through a Culture & Workplace Climate Assessment.
Training is also available for appropriate personnel on how to perform periodic continuing audits to keep apprised of the workplace environment and potential issues that could be developing.
