Eli Makus Speaks at ABA ERR Committee Midwinter Meeting on Workplace Investigations
Eli Makus, Managing Partner, presented "Workplace Investigator in the Hot Seat: Issues of Privilege and Impartiality" alongside the Workplace Investigations Subcommittee at the ERR Committee Midwinter Meeting & National Symposium on Technology in Labor & Employment Law on Wednesday, March 19th, at 11:30 AM.
Moderator:
Pamela Newport, Herzfeld Suetholz Gastel Leniski and Wall, Cincinnati, OH
Panelists:
Maureen Binetti, Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer PA, Woodbridge, NJ
Kevin L. Jones, Farella Braun + Martel LLP, San Francisco, CA
Eli Makus, Van Dermyden Makus, Sacramento, CA
Terrill Wilkins, Abrahamson Rdzanek & Wilkins, LLC, Chicago, IL
Description of Session:
This panel consisted of role-playing, with an investigator being crossexamined and rehabilitated during a binding arbitration of an investigation. It focused on key challenges to investigators, including preparation, technique and neutrality, since they are paid by the employer and under the attorney-client, work-product privileges, and discovery requests. The fact pattern of the investigation raises other issues, such as mental disability or insubordination, as well.
More About the Conference:
ERR continues its tradition of partnering with other Section Standing Committees to offer the best of legal education. This year, ERR is proud to collaborate once again with the Technology in the Practice and Workplace Committee to present cutting-edge programs about developing technologies that will impact the legal profession and the ethics and privacy concerns that are raised by their use. ERR prides itself on membership diversity and balanced presentations reflecting the employer/management, employee/plaintiff, union, government, neutral and in-house corporate counsel perspectives. The ERR Midwinter Meeting is also a place to enjoy meeting new friends and catching up with long-time ERR colleagues.
Van Dermyden Makus was a proud sponsor of the American Bar Association Employment Rights & Responsibilities 2025 Midwinter Meeting.
