Corporate & Non-Profit Internal Investigations

• Conducted an expedited internal investigation into allegations of sexual assault by a contract employee on behalf of a U.S-based biopharmaceutical company.
• Investigated a town police department’s alleged racial profiling and other civil rights violations in connection with the detention and handcuffing of a local man. Issued a report proposing extensive reforms to the department’s internal investigations process.
• Oversaw an independent investigation of alleged discriminatory conduct by a senior executive of a nationally known advocacy organization.
• Conducted a security assessment and investigation on behalf of a veteran housing organization.
• Directed an investigation for a local hospital into a security incident involving the alleged use of excessive force in the restraint of a patient experiencing a mental health crisis.
• Engaged by local government officials to manage an independent investigation of bias-based policing stemming from a municipal police department’s arrest of a parent in a local elementary school.
• Managed sensitive investigation of competing allegations of racial and gender discrimination among a health care provider’s executive leadership team to identify organizational risks and assist in implementation of responsive strategy.

White Collar Defense & Government Investigations and Litigation

• Serving as co-counsel to the court-appointed independent monitor of a pharmaceutical manufacturer in a five-year monitorship connected with the company’s bankruptcy proceeding stemming from national opioid litigation.  
• Serving as a federal court-appointed monitor in United States v. City of Ferguson, Missouri, managing the implementation of reforms arising from a US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division pattern and practice investigation.
• Represented the chief executive officer of a leading molecular diagnostic company in a qui tam action with Medicare fraud allegations.

Higher Education and K-12 Schools

• Advised schools in responding to so-called “#Blackat” social media postings by current students, alumni, and others describing their experiences of racism, sexual abuse, and other misconduct at educational institutions that are historically non-diverse.
• Represented a large urban school board in establishing a constitutional defense of policies focused on remediating past school segregation and inequality.
• Conducted an investigation into allegations of racial discrimination by an adjunct faculty member on behalf of an esteemed private liberal arts college.
• Oversaw multiple investigations of racial and gender discrimination, historical allegations of sexual abuse and other misconduct by students and faculty at independent secondary schools in the United States and abroad.
• Retained by a public university to investigate misconduct allegations against a former elected official related to his role as an adjunct faculty member.