Treaty Oak Employers’ Law Blog

How do we investigate bias? Bias is sometimes used as a soft word for discrimination, but at the end of the day, we are trying to measure if people are treated differently, either by a system that’s implemented or by direct managerial input of a human. So, regardless of if

What do we do if we have a biased witness?  Probably most of our witnesses are biased and we need to work around that because that is part of human nature. And we also need to identify it. So, maybe everybody told me that Bob stole the truck on Tuesday,

What do I do when I’m approaching a witness? Witnesses need to be comfortable with us as investigators. We need to get witnesses comfortable enough to schedule with us and then open up to us later. And so one of the things that we often tell people is, “Hi, my

What do you do after you write your written reports? You get it edited. I’ve heard some people say things like, “Nothing goes out our door unless it’s been thoroughly reviewed by six sets of eyes.” I think mine’s closer to four sets of eyes. But it does get pretty

What do you do after your last interview? Probably your last interview was your accused. Sometimes you may have to circle around with somebody and do a second interview, but generally speaking, your last interview is your accused. You need to be running towards having results for your client, right?

What do you do after you talked to the reporting party? Generally, I checked in with my client contacts, confirmed to them that that interview did happen, and let them know any updates about scope. So, if the reporting party’s concern was misreported to you, through the process of getting

What do you do to let your accused individual know that they are the accused in your investigation? I’ve talked about in other interviews, how I am very careful, never to bring other interviews into a current interview. And that includes the reporting party’s interview into the accused interview. And

What do I do to admonish an interviewee? My admonishments include introducing my law firm, introducing myself, introducing who I am, my role in this process. I generally will talk about the methods of investigation that are possible. I do that in part so that I can make the point

What do you do if someone makes additional allegations during one of your interviews? This can happen either when you are interviewing the reporting party or one of the other witnesses along the way. And it partially depends on the client, in part how well you know the client. For