Sexual Discrimination / Harassment Expert Witnesses: 18

Beth A. Mohr, CFE, FSA, CFCS, CAMS, CCCI, MPA, PI, is a Police Practices expert with over 30 years of sworn and non-sworn investigative experience.  Ms. Mohr has testified as an expert in numerous state and federal court proceedings, depositions, and administrative hearings in federal and state courts, including New Mexico, Ohio, Illinois, Arizona, California, and Washington State.  Ms. Mohr has testified on a variety of subjects, including police procedures, police misconduct, white-collar crime, and fraud examinations.  Her expertise has been verified by the courts via a Daubert challenge, in which Ms. Mohr was found to be qualified as an expert in police practices generally, and well as the specific areas of interviewing, interrogation, false and recanted confessions, cognitive bias, investigations and investigative failures, vice, and human trafficking.  Ms. Mohr is neutral, fair, and her opinions are rooted in provable facts, as well as academic literature, where appropriate.  She strives to balance her cases between defense and plaintiff-sided cases, and also provides habeas consulting services.  

Ms. Mohr is credentialed as a Nationally Certified Law Enforcement Instructor by the IADLEST, and is one of fewer than 150 individuals who have been nationally certified as an expert law enforcement instructor.  She is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Force Science Analyst (FSA) Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Certified Financial Crimes Specialist (CFCS) and a Certified Cyber Crimes Investigator (CCCI).  She is also a Private Investigator (PI) licensed in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California.  

Areas of Expertise:

• Police Practices and allegation of Police Misconduct
• Excessive Force, Deadly Force & Use-of-Force
• Taser, ECWs, and other uses of force intended to be less-lethal
• Interviewing, Interrogations & False and Recanted Confessions
• Police Ethics & Ethical Failures
• Cognitive Bias, Confirmation Bias
• Investigative Failures
• False Arrest
• Failure to Train, Failure to Supervise, Monell Claims
• Evidence Handling
• Police Policy, SOPs
• Habeas Consulting, including death penalty cases
• Sex Trafficking and Human Trafficking
• Sexual Assault
• Fraud & White-Collar Cases
• Retaliation & Qui Tam
• Workplace Violence & Sexual Harassment
• Private Investigations & PI Failures

During her career with the San Diego Police Department, Ms. Mohr was awarded three Commanding Officer’s Citations, which were the highest awards offered by the San Diego Police Department for investigative acumen at the time.  After retiring from the San Diego Police Department, she conducted death penalty mitigation investigations and other complex felony investigations, including homicide and white-collar cases, for the Whatcom County, Washington, Public Defender’s Office.  This includes conducting investigations of allegations of police misconduct for the City of Albuquerque Independent Review Office. Ms. Mohr recently chaired the City of Albuquerque’s Police Oversight Board, a civilian board that was created as part of the US Department of Justice’s Consent Decree with the City of Albuquerque and the Albuquerque Police Department.

Ms. Mohr has published a chapter entitled “Skepticism”, in the newly-released book The Art of Investigation Revisited, as well as having penned articles for bar journals and other peer-reviewed publications.  Ms. Mohr has taught courses on law enforcement topics, including interviewing techniques, investigative ethics, evidence collection, financial and fraud investigations, and many other topics. Her ethics courses, investigative courses, and fraud courses are certified for law enforcement credit.

“We settled the case...for $5 million. Your report played a huge role in that.  Thank you for everything!”  Nick H. 

Maureen Clark, SPHR, President of Three Sixty HR, Inc., began her Human Resources career in finance and Fortune 100 manufacturing. Ms. Clark has been consulting in Human Resources for over 30 years serving more than 200 clients in the high tech, manufacturing, services, not-for-profit, education and public sectors. Ms. Clark is particularly skilled at analyzing difficult workplace problems and creating win-win outcomes. 

Ms. Clark's practice has expanded to include HR investigations (PI#27972), litigation consulting and expert witness testimony for both plaintiffs and defense. Ms. Clark is a member of the Society for Human Resources Management, the Northern California Human Resources Association, the Association of Workplace Investigators, and the Forensic Expert Witness Association. 

Expert cases have included allegations of:

• Age and Pregnancy Discrimination
• Adequacy of Employer’s Response to a Complaint of Discrimination,
• Failure to Accommodate a Disability
• Adequacy of Employer’s Response to a Complaint of Sexual Harassment
• Negligent Hiring
• Wrongful Termination
• Constructive Discharge
• Failure to Comply with Meal and Rest Period Requirements
• Failure to Pay at Termination
• Discrimination Based on Disability
• Adequacy of Investigations
• Liability for a Tort Occurring During the Course of Employment
• Whistleblowing, Retaliation

View Maureen Clark's Consulting Profile.

Professor Mat Schmalz is an internationally recognized expert on the Catholic Church and New Religious Movements (Jehovah's Witnesses; Scientology). He has served as an expert witness in Religious Liberty cases involving New Religious Movements and has argued that using the word "cult" in a legal context is inflammatory.

He has over 500 media citations--and over one hundred appearances on television. He is able to adapt to multiple audiences and rhetorical contexts.