About
Doria Wiley Law
Doria Wiley Law provides thorough, prompt, and impartial workplace investigations for both private and public employers. The range of workplace matters we investigate includes:
Sexual harassment and other forms of workplace harassment, including racial and religious harassment
Discrimination
Retaliation for raising workplace complaints
Workplace bullying
Ethics and code of conduct violations
We bring to our investigations work two decades of experience litigating employment cases on behalf of both employers and employees—cases in which we defended or challenged the adequacy of the employer’s investigation to minimize or establish liability—as well as specialized training in evaluating evidence and interviewing witnesses, assessing credibility, and making objective factual determinations that enable employers to promptly and appropriately respond to employee concerns.
Why hire an independent workplace investigator?
The decision to hire an outside investigator or to utilize internal personnel to investigate a workplace misconduct complaint can have far reaching consequences for employers. Depending on the seriousness and complexity of the particular workplace complaint, the parties involved, and the organization’s structure, retaining a professional third-party investigator helps safeguard the integrity of the investigation by ensuring that:
The investigator is free of actual or apparent bias or conflicts of interest
The investigator has extensive training, experience, and skill in conducting workplace investigations—including in respectfully interviewing witnesses and establishing rapport, making credibility determinations, and applying the appropriate standard of proof
The investigator is empowered to make internally difficult credibility assessments and findings
The investigator has the ability and time to quickly and thoroughly complete the investigation
Employees feel more comfortable sharing all potentially relevant information
Employers rarely go wrong when opting to hire an experienced, professional workplace investigator. A timely, fair, and comprehensive investigation can increase worker productivity and morale, free-up executives, and human resources personnel to focus on organizational goals, and help preserve the attorney-client privilege between the organization and its in-house or outside counsel.
STEPHANIE DORIA WILEY (AWI-CH)
Stephanie Doria Wiley conducts impartial workplace investigations of all kinds, including investigating employment complaints of sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, bullying, and other workplace misconduct.
Prior to forming Doria Wiley Law, Stephanie spent two decades as an employment litigator and counselor advising clients regarding a wide range of employment law matters. Stephanie began her career representing employers in the San Francisco office of Paul Hastings LLP, an international law firm with a premier employment practice. Stephanie left Paul Hastings in 2004 to become a founding partner of a boutique bay area employment law firm where she spent 14 years representing employees in litigation, including sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation actions, and continued to advise both employers and employees regarding employment matters. Stephanie’s background and experience representing both employers and employees provides a unique and balanced perspective to her role as an independent investigator.
Stephanie is a member of the Association of Workplace Investigators and is a graduate of AWI's Training Institute for Workplace Investigators and an AWI Certificate Holder (AWI-CH). Law & Politics Magazine has selected Stephanie as one of its Northern California Super Lawyers in the area of employment law every year from 2008 through 2023.
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CONTACT INFO
Doria Wiley Law
236 West Portal Avenue, No. 800
San Francisco, California, 94127
Telephone / 415.886.9044
Email / stephanie@doriawileylaw.com