Government Agencies

 

Experts:
Our expert team is involved in the critical stages of litigation, often called upon to provide specific input and testimony on issues arising in the litigation process. Our experts include use of force, proper police tactics, crime scene forensics, domestic violence, police reporting, police officer supervision, training, personnel issues, special weapons, taser use, traffic, sexual harassment, hostile work environment, police dispatch procedures and a variety of other areas of law enforcement specialties.

By using our panel of experts, it ensures availability of the necessary expertise during any stage of the litigation, and allows for an inexpensive solution for the need of the expert. Our firm’s experts have no minimum billing requirements, so specific experts can be used on every issue present in the litigation process. All expert qualifications are carefully evaluated, updated and available for review to ensure reliability and acceptance during the litigation process. By working with the legal defense team, expenses related to expert witnesses can be managed to prevent excessive billing.

Our highly trained experts assist in case preparation during the litigation process. Reviewing personnel files, internal affairs investigations, pre-employment background reports, training records and other documents; which are discoverable under federal discovery, for the legal defense team during the litigation process. Our team is highly trained to recognize important issues that can arise in these documents and work closely with legal representation to strengthen the cities defense to such claims and law suits.

Internal Affairs Investigations/Experts:
Internal affairs investigations are a critical component of all law enforcement agencies. Balancing the rights of the involved officers, the complaining party, the organization and the community is an important task. Our staff of highly skilled internal affair investigators conducts independent internal affairs and personnel investigations for law enforcement agencies ensuring accurate, fair, independent investigation of all external and internal complaints filed against organizations and individual officers. Our investigators understand the internal affairs process and legal obligations and requirements to ensure these investigations are accurate, complete and contain all necessary information. All internal affairs investigators are supervised and assisted by in-house experts specializing in law enforcement internal affairs investigations. Our internal affairs investigators are on-call and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and will respond to any scene where a need arises. This service is offered at no additional cost.