The Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law invites you to join our upcoming webinar series, "Rethinking Gender and Sexual Harassment Practice," January 23rd - 26th, 2023, 8:30am - 12:30pm PT each day. California lawyers can earn 3.5 hours of CLE credit per day.

Daphne Pierre Bishop to present at PLI’s MCLE Marathon, November 1, 2022.

Sue Ann Van Dermyden, a longtime member of the Kennedy Inn of Court, co-hosted the Inn’s annual Hammy Awards with Art Scotland, former presiding justice of the California Court of Appeals, Third Appellate District in Sacramento on October 18, 2022.

The VM Team is growing! We are pleased to announce new attorneys and professional staff joining our team. VM is devoted to delivering excellence in neutral investigations and hearing officer services. Our work helps employers and campuses make well-informed decisions so employees get back to work and students bet back to class. Our team is committed not just to delivering excellent services to our clients, but to creating a model workplace as well. Our new team members exemplify VM’s values.

Every fourth Thursday of the month at 3pm, streaming live on Facebook, the Sacramento LGBT Community Center offers public training. These free trainings, help to create a region where Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) people thrive and help create advocates for equity and social justice within and external to the LGBTQ+ community.

As with many in our community, we are deeply saddened by the tragic mass shooting in Sacramento last weekend. We know that no donation will solve the problem, but we seek to support the victims and their families as best we can.

This webinar will provide practical tips, techniques, and considerations that are critical to conducting investigations where discretion may be required. Whether a Complainant insists on remaining anonymous or you need to avoid an unnecessary disclosure of sensitive information, this power hour (with an additional 15-minute Q&A following) will show you how to conduct a thorough investigation while minimizing unnecessary exposure and disruption to the workplace or campus based on real-life investigations..

1.0 General MCLE (CA state bar approved)

Van Dermyden Makus Law Corporation, the thought-leader in workplace investigations, opens a Los Angeles office as part of the long-term strategy to grow in California and nationally. Daphne Pierre Bishop, a trusted expert in the area of employment law and workplace investigations, joins VM as Managing Partner of the Los Angeles office.

Saturday, February 26, Van Dermyden Makus Investigations Law Firm participates in the Sacramento Region Diversity Career Fair at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.

Van Dermyden Makus will be a title sponsor of The Carrie Bobb Foundation’s upcoming event, “Your Vision, Your Brand, It’s Your Story.”

This afternoon of storytelling and inspiration with a star-studded lineup will take place on February 22, 2022 at 2:22pm in the Terrace Area of the Rancho Valencia Resort & Spa, in Rancho Santa Fe, California. This event honors all the incredible work The Carrie Bobb Foundation does and includes a Happy Hour with carefully curated beverages and appetizers.

Sue Ann Van Dermyden and Deborah Maddux have been named as Super Lawyers once again. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law’s 2022 Conference on New Developments in Workplace Sexual Harassment held virtually, January 27-28, 2022 is a U.S. and global comparative examination of sexual harassment in the workplace, focusing on skills for litigators, advisors, investigators, and human resource professionals.

Eli Makus, Senior Managing Partner of Van Dermyden Makus Law Corporation, has been named the Association of Workplace Investigators’ (AWI) President for a two-year term. He previously served as AWI’s Treasurer from 2017 to 2019, and as its Vice President and Institute Committee Co-Chair from 2019 to 2021.

At this year’s CALPELRA conference, Van Dermyden Makus Law Corporation has been invited to present at three difference sessions. The CALPELRA 2021 Conference, Color Your Space: A Spectrum of Opportunities, provides space for you step back and consider your work from new vantage points, identify your strengths, brush up on your skills, and establish connections with others.

We are thrilled to announce that AWI selected both Sue Ann Van Dermyden and Deborah Maddux to speak at their annual conference October 14-15 in Denver, Colorado.

This training will cover Trauma-Informed techniques when interviewing individuals during workplace and Title IX investigations. The participants will learn what a trauma-informed approach is, and how to implement the approach in their own investigative practice.

1.0 General MCLE & .5 Bias Elimination MCLE (CA state bar approved)

Presented by our own Sue Ann Van Dermyden and Mary Ann Demos, this session will provide guidance to investigators and their team on the anatomy of investigative report proofing and peer review. Attendees will see a peer reviewer’s process and the methodology of proofing a report. By using examples and demonstrations, attendees will come away with tips that can be employed immediately to help improve the final investigative product. Checklists will be provided.