Expert Details
Legal Cases pertaining to Displaced Homemakers and their Career Options following Divorce
ID: 728689
Washington, USA
consulting experience. He is an Expert Witness in Vocational Assessments in divorce cases with a focus on several key areas combining his mental
health skills and knowledge and his expertise in career issues to produce key written and oral testimony in cases where career issues are impacted
by legal actions.
Special skills areas include:
Family Law: Assessment of individual career status for clients who are in a divorce process. When individuals file for divorce often one of the people
in the marriage is unemployed or underemployed. Expert works with attorney’s on either side of the issue to assess how, when, and under what
circumstances an individual can return to work. In that context he evaluates a number of critical features, which include, but are not limited to:
- Assessment of previous employment history.
- Educational background and how current the client’s skills are
- Mental health status
- Evaluation of the client’s overall ability to return to work in the context of all the aforementioned areas of inquiry.
Employment/Labor Law:
Expert began his career as an Employee Relations Manager at Stanford University Hospital, in Palo Alto, CA. Since that time he has
been actively engaged in many aspects of employee relations via running non profits, consulting about HR management issues, providing extensive
troubled employee and outplacement counseling, and providing expert witness testimony in several significant employment law cases in the Seattle
area. In the category of expert witness services, Expert specializes in evaluating the impact and/or validity of:
- wrongful terminations impacting career futures and income
- impact of harassment in terms of mental health
- discrimination in training/testing/evaluating potential and current employees
- biases in hiring: practices/policies/training/testing
Personal Injury Law:
Expert’s work historically as a Career Counselor & Licensed Mental Health Counselor has often involved medical matters. He has client referrals from
Department of Vocational Rehabilitation and other non-profit agencies that deal with people with disabilities. He has worked with clients who have
career issues due to brain injuries, PTSD, multiple physical disabilities. Client’s diagnosed with many diseases and disabilities that inhibit their career
capabilities come to learn how to find and implement new career paths and adapt their skills to new work environments. In his Family Law work, he
has become very familiar with the costs of retraining and/or education, and the lost income due to inability to work. Expert can assist Personal Injury
attorneys with these types of issues:
- career change/impact analysis
- lost wages analysis/projections
- reentry/retraining or education time and costs
- employment options for injured/disabled workers
- career development for injured adults after legal resolution.
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He consulted to the City of Peoria, AZ for over ten years assessing candidates in leadership roles for most all of the principal City Departments including Police Chief, Fire Chief, Director of Engineering, Director of Public Works, etc.Assessed candidates for senior management positions in City of Scottsdale, AZ including Deputy Police Chief, Personnel Director, Deputy City Manager, Budget ManagerRan two retreats for King County Senior Management Team developing leadership, team building and communications systems for newly elected County Executive.Functioned numerous times as an Expert Witness in Divorce cases primarily assessing the "displaced homemakers" in terms of mental health, employability, and needs for continuing education to re enter the employment market.Consulted to the Insurance Commissioners Office for the State of WA to assist the newly elected Insurance Commissioner to realign the Department after eighteen years of prior management. Provided consultation for all aspects of this enterprise to adjust how that department did their regulatory business in the State of WA
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1976 | Degree: M.S. | Subject: Interdisciplinary Studies, Counseling and Criminology | Institution: University of Oregon, Eugene, OR |
| Year: 1971 | Degree: B.A. | Subject: Sociology & Elementary Education | Institution: College of Idaho, Caldwell, ID |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 1983 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: President/Founder | Department: |
Responsibilities:He runs a small, two person consulting firm. He provides a cross section of services as outlined in his Expertise Summaries. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1977 to 1979 | Employer: Psychological Services of Idaho | Title: Founder/Executive Director | Department: |
Responsibilities:This was a non profit social services agencies dealing with delinquency prevention/child abuse issues. He founded the organization along with a clinical psychologist. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1975 to 1976 | Employer: Youth Service Bureau of Boise, ID | Title: Executive Director | Department: |
Responsibilities:This was a Federally funded delinquency prevention program. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1973 to 1975 | Employer: University of Oregon | Title: Assistant Director | Department: Master Program in Interdisciplinary Studies |
Responsibilities:Assisted the Director, Dr. Kenneth Polk, in working with new students, doing sociological research in criminology and delinquency prevention studies. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1970 to 1973 | Employer: Youth Service Bureau of Boise, ID | Title: Clinical Director | Department: |
Responsibilities:He provided counseling and clinical training to other social workers dealing with delinquency prevention and family therapy programs. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1969 to 1971 | Employer: Stanford University Hospital, Palo Alto, CA | Title: Personnel Assistant, Employee Relations | Department: |
Responsibilities:Worked as a personnel/human resources generalist doing some employee relations work, some wage and salary administration, and some labor relations functions. |
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Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| Expert Witness services in Family Law -- career assessments of displaced spouse; Witness Preparation -- worked with a number of types of witnesses to prep them psychologically for trial and depositions; Employment Law --- assessments of wrongful terminations impacts on mental health and career futures, assess biases in testing and evaluation systems, and assess impacts of hostile workplace situations. |
Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| American Psychotherapy Association; American Counseling Association. |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| Licensed Mental Health Counselor, State of WA. |