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Expert Witness Work Using Job Smart System Data Collection Strategies

Plan for the best outcome with the Dr. Deborah Kearney's expert witness team.  She is easily able to build rapport with both professionals and clients (in all levels of stress). She is value added to your negotiations and legal team strategies in seven ways. 

First, as an ergonomist, her understanding of the occupational demands of work is extensive, crossing all industries and occupational titles. She is an expert in health care occupations, in particular, all 37-physician specialties.

Second, she has union experience and understands collective bargaining parameters.

Third, regarding returning employees to work, she has developed a risk analysis strategy that is consistent with the highest standards of accepted practice in safety engineering.  Therefore, she can assess job demands and match them to a person's capabilities with objective, quantifiable, and photo documented data. She is ISO and Six Sigma competent.

Fourth, her training and experience with the Americans with Disabilities Act began long before 1990. She won the distinguished author award for her book, Meeting the Need, Meeting the Code because it is was developed from 100's of her case study analyses of "undue hardship" vs. "reasonable accommodation ". She understands solutions for both physical and mental disabilities. She further understands the difference between ability and disability for all ADA Titles.

As such, her fifth value consideration is her ability to give documented guidance on how to request functional capacity exams (FCE) so that occupational health doctors test for specific  "job related " or life capacity competencies. She is also an expert at guiding "investigations " that result in a true correlation to essential functions of jobs. She has analyzed several thousand images of work in her career.

Sixth, her reports are timely and comprehensive yet summarized to your utility.

Seventh, she is of demeanor and character, a quick study.

In sum, she [and her team] will meet your standard of expectations as an expert. She will professionally represent her expertise as a confidential consultant or as an expert witness in deposition and in court.  She will be happy to present her credentials, review cases, and documentation at your behest. One final note, she is not known as " paid" expert.

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