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Your organization is vulnerable
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Internal or external complaints of harassment, discrimination or retaliation
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Allegations of employee misconduct
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Safety issues or accidents in the workplace
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Whistle-blower complaints
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Demand letters from an allegedly aggrieved party
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Lawsuits or administrative claims
Your smart next move
A prompt, independent, thorough, and unbiased investigation is your organizations's best strategy to maintain or restore trust with customers, constituents, investors and employees; provide you with the opportunity to address possible misconduct; limit or avoid liability; reduce costly litigation; and satisfy your duty under the law to conduct an effective investigation.
Comprised exclusively of skilled trial attorneys who have also served as judge advocates (JAGs) in the military service of the United States and are known for their integrity and effectiveness, the Two Star Investigations network ensures that every investigation is conducted by an elite, highly-trained trial attorney who has had extensive investigative experience.
Why use Two Star?
As trial attorneys, JAGs have unmatched experience in conducting these investigations, and know, first-hand, how to most effectively find the facts and develop the evidence to enable your own retained attorneys to determine whether appropriate action, including contested proceedings, may successfully be pursued on your behalf, and how best to minimize your potential liability or exposure to adverse consequences.
Why not your current law firm?
To restore trust, whoever conducts your investigation must be perceived as independent and unbiased to either side. When you utilize your existing law firm to conduct an investigation, whoever is the target of the investigation—your entity or organization, or an individual—your attorneys will be associated and identified with your entity or organization, and will not be perceived by everyone concerned as independent and unbiased. It is likely that someone will complain that whatever findings your attorneys make will be biased in your favor.
In addition, if your attorneys conduct an investigation that results in adverse action, the entire firm of your attorneys is subject to being disqualified from representing your organization in that action because one or more parties will call the attorney who conducted the investigation as a witness. The strategy of your adversary in the adverse action in calling your attorney-investigator as a witness is to claim that the testimony creates a conflict of interest. Whether your adversary legitimately calls the witness to obtain necessary testimony or simply to support the claim of conflict of interest, you are vulnerable to this tactic when your attorney is the investigator.
If an attorney is a witness in a proceeding, that attorney will most likely, and, frequently, the entire firm may be prohibited from representing one of the parties in that proceeding. But, even if the entire firm is eventually not disqualified from representing a party, it is almost certain, where an attorney in that firm is also a witness, that some party in the action will request the court to disqualify the entire firm. This request is also part of your adversary’s strategy to weaken your position in that action by forcing you to retain different attorneys who, your adversary believes, may not be as effective as your original attorneys. At a minimum, the action will be disrupted and delayed, often at great length and expense, and with an uncertain outcome, until the issue of disqualification is resolved. Using Two Star Investigations avoids all of that.