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Professional Services

Employee Relations Support for Professional Services

Your HR team, office manager, and firm leaders already have full workloads. We help with write-ups, termination reviews, investigations, documentation, and EEOC responses, bringing experience and follow-through to employee matters so your people can stay focused on clients and the business.

The Professional Services Risk Profile

Consistent decisions take experience and capacity

Having an HR team does not remove the workload of interviewing employees, reviewing records, advising managers, and following through. We provide experienced support so the process is thorough and your team can keep other work moving.

88,201
New EEOC charges filed in FY2025: no industry is exempt from the docket
Office environments file charges too; they just get less attention.
Source: EEOC FY2025 charge statistics
61.6%
Of all EEOC charges nationally allege retaliation
The claim that started small rarely stays that way.
Source: EEOC FY2025 charge statistics (Table E1f)
Capacity
Investigations and employee follow-up compete with client and operational work
Experienced support helps your existing team carry the workload.
What's Different About Our Program

Built to extend the team you already have

Management guidance, accessible reporting, thorough investigations, and organized records work together to support your team’s daily decisions.

Specialized Expertise, Not Extra Headcount

We add management consulting and investigative capacity to your existing team. Write-up guidance, termination review, documentation, and EEOC response support help HR and firm leaders handle employee matters without carrying every step themselves.

Remote and Hybrid Coverage

We investigate concerns involving email, messages, video calls, and in-person conduct. Relevant records and accounts are evaluated together, with consistent documentation regardless of where employees work.

Client-Site Protection

When a concern involves a client’s staff, we help document and investigate the relevant facts and support management’s response. Your leadership and counsel determine employment and client-engagement decisions.

Manager and Senior-Staff Accountability

Employees need a reporting option when a concern involves their own manager. Phone, email, and in-app reporting connect to an impartial investigation and documented follow-through.

Our Process

Establish the relationship. Keep the support in place.

We set up your program once, investigate complaints that come to us thoroughly, and engage proactively each quarter.

  1. 1

    Establish the Program

    We learn your operation, review existing policies and records, and establish reporting and communication procedures with your team.

  2. 2

    Connect Your Team

    Employees can report by phone, email, or in the app. Managers know where to turn for guidance before a write-up, difficult conversation, or termination decision.

  3. 3

    Handle Issues Thoroughly

    When a complaint comes to us, we investigate thoroughly, document the relevant facts, and support follow-through. Your leadership retains employment decisions.

  4. 4

    Stay Engaged Each Quarter

    Proactive quarterly engagement keeps the relationship active. We discuss emerging concerns and business changes, with ongoing consulting and EEOC response support when needed.

FAQ

Common questions

We've never had a harassment complaint. Do we really need this?
A reporting process and experienced support are useful before the first serious complaint. We also help with routine management decisions, write-ups, and termination reviews, and engage proactively each quarter. The relationship supports your team between complaints as well as during them.
We already have someone handling HR. What would you actually be adding?
Management consulting, investigative capacity, and follow-through. We help with write-ups, termination reviews, documentation, and EEOC charge responses, including position statements. Your team retains its HR responsibilities and employment decisions while gaining an experienced resource to use.
How do you handle harassment that happens over Slack, email, or video calls?
We gather relevant digital records and participant accounts as part of the investigation. Messages can provide useful evidence, but they still need context and fair evaluation alongside other facts.
Our consultants and auditors work on client sites. Who's liable if a client's employee harasses our staff?
Responsibility depends on the facts and applicable law. We help document concerns, investigate relevant conduct, and support your management response. Your counsel can advise on legal obligations and your leadership decides how to manage the client relationship.
What about managers or senior leadership being named in a complaint?
This is one of the most common blind spots in any office with a clear chain of command. The same seniority that makes someone hard to report also makes them hard to investigate impartially in-house. Our investigations are conducted by a neutral third party specifically so a complaint about a manager or executive gets the same rigor as a complaint about anyone else.
Is this overkill for a firm our size?
The practical need is whether your team has the experience and capacity to handle employee concerns and management decisions consistently. Applicable legal requirements vary by employee count and location. We review your operation at onboarding and build on the resources you already have.

Put experienced support to work for your team.

Tell us where employee matters are taking time or creating uncertainty. We will explain how ongoing management guidance, investigations, and documentation support can help.

Multi-State Operations

Operating in more than one state?

Training mandates stack by jurisdiction, with different thresholds, durations, and renewal cycles in each one. Our matrix covers seven mandate states, three city and district overlays, and Texas, with the statutory citation for every requirement.

See the mandate matrix