Employment Discrimination and EEO Expert Witnesses: 19

Background Check and Negligent Hiring Expert

Robert Capwell, RIMS-CRMP, is a Background Screening and Background Check litigation expert witness leveraging more than 30 years of employment screening executive leadership experience. He is the founder and principal consultant of Capwell Consulting Group LLC, which provides litigation support and expert testimony in the areas of employment screening, HR compliance investigations, and FCRA related cases.

Litigation Support: Mr. Capwell provides expert witness services as a background check expert on behalf of Consumer Reporting Agencies, employers, consumers, and attorneys representing plaintiff and defense. His services include thorough reporting, depositions, and trial testimony as needed. His testimony and consulting experience includes government agencies, Congress, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Federal Aviation Administration.

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Mr. Capwell is a Founding Member and Past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS) which is now the Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA). He led the association's globalization taskforce which developed the organizational and leadership structure for the association's transformation to a global association. He also served on the association's inaugural Global Board of Directors as a distinguished member. Mr. Capwell served on the Ethics and Accreditation Committee which developed the Background Screening Agency Accreditation Program (BSAAP).

Mr. Capwell has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur Magazine, and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) publications. He also served as a contributing author of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) “Security Awareness Standard” which was published in 2020. He is a presenter to industry colleagues, recruiters, human resource professionals, and loss prevention practitioners both nationally and internationally.

Dr. Brian H. Kleiner was a former human resource manager for Ford Motor Company. He has had over 100 private and public consulting clients and has trained thousands of employees. 

Dr. Kleiner taught three 36-hour courses on KLCS-TV, has over 500 publications, and has given trial / arbitration testimony in over 70 cases, including one resulting in a $12.5 million plaintiffs verdict in 2014 concerning disability discrimination and wrongful termination. He has been profiled in Bender's California Labor and Employment Bulletin in 2007 as a result of his overall forensic expert successes and other achievements. 

Degrees Include:

• B.S. in Business Administration, Drexel
• MBA, UCLA
• Ph.D. Management, UCLA

Aaron T. Olson specializes as an expert in police investigations and employer investigations. His knowledge and skills come from a career in law enforcement, testifying in state and federal court, being an expert witness, private investigator, adjunct professor, author and trainer. 

Background Experience: Mr. Olson has 26 years of police experience with the Oregon State Police managing assignments in communications, recruitment, and patrol. He supervised and evaluated both police and non-police employees. He was a member of the OSP Procedures and Rules Advisory Committee and worked with Oregon's Department of Justice legal team in rewriting and validating OSP's trooper and cadet applicant hiring process. 

As a patrol supervisor, Mr. Olson directed major crime scenes and motor vehicle fatalities investigations. He reviewed and approved administrative, police, and use of force reports. He investigated allegations of police officer misconduct, conducted background checks, and participated in specialized tasks in community policing, dignitary protection with the U.S. Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies. In his tenure he had experience in police pursuits, the use of physical force and deadly force and next-of-kin death notifications.  

Mr. Olson is a former human resources investigator with Local Government Personnel Institute, Salem, OR. He conducted background and misconduct investigations on city and county employees and city and county elected officials, as well as city police chiefs. His misconduct investigations included sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation and hostile work environments. He wrote the investigative reports and made the findings of facts on all misconduct allegations.

Besides being an expert witness, Mr. Olson is a private investigator. He is insured and bonded and licensed through the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training, Private Investigator License #113509. Mr. Olson is a contract expert consultant to the Oregon Public Defense Commission on police practices and investigations. His vendor number is 1833121097-000. 

Mr. Olson is a published co -writer of multiple books, CARE Approach: Seeking Solutions to Human Problems and Multicultural Law Enforcement: Strategies for Peacekeeping in a Diverse Society. Further, he is an adjunct professor teaching at a community college and state university.

Litigation Support: Mr. Olson meets the criteria of an expert witness as outlined in the Federal Rules of Evidence. He has experience as an expert on cases involving police misconduct, police procedures, police and non-police use of force, police pursuits; wrongful death; personal injury; employer investigations on employees; and cases involving employer negligent hiring, negligent training, negligent supervision, negligent retention, management performance and retaliation. He also has experience in reviewing criminal cases for defense attorneys. Mr. Olson's services are available to attorneys' representing plaintiffs and defendants and include diagnostics, thorough reporting, depositions, arbitration hearings, and trial testimony as needed. Contact him today for a free initial consultation.

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Expertise in the administration and compliance of qualified retirement plans.  Consulting services to third party administrators, corporations, small businesses, financial advisors, attorneys, CPAs and individuals.

Expertise with regard to traditional defined benefit pension plans, cash balance plans, and defined contribution plans. Applicable functions include plan design, plan implementation, actuarial calculations, non discrimination testing, due diligence, plan resolution projects.