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Detecting Lies and Deception: Practical Skills for HR Professionals

September 17, 2019

4:15 p.m. -5:15 p.m.

 Human Resources professionals often are faced with making credibility determinations.  Whether the issue is the validity of an employee’s workers’ compensation claim, internal complaint, or request for reasonable accommodation, HR professionals must be able to separate the wheat from the chaff.  Join Jennifer Shaw, a nationally-recognized employment law expert, as she provides practical tools for determining whether an employee is telling you the truth, including how to interpret body language, how to ask key questions, when and how to push back with an employee, the proper use of written documentation, and other key practices.

Speaker: Jennifer Shaw

Jennifer Brown Shaw is the founder of Shaw Law Group.  A well-respected expert in employment law for more than 20 years, employers rely on Jennifer to provide practical advice and counsel on a broad range of employment law issues, including wage-hour compliance, reasonable accommodation/leave of absence issues, and hiring/separation issues.  Named by Northern California Super Lawyers magazine as one of the top attorneys in California every year since 2009 and the recipient of numerous other awards, Jennifer is a frequent speaker on employment law topics, and has been a guest on CNN and local television and radio.  After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics with honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz, Jennifer graduated magna cum laude from the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she was the editor-in-chief of the law review.