Elizabeth Rita

About Elizabeth Rita

Liz has been an investigator even before she knew that was to be her life’s work. She read every Nancy Drew book as a kid, as soon as it came out, which may have been a clue about where her professional life would take her. Liz started her career doing commercial litigation for a global law firm in Boston, where her practice included sophisticated litigation for large companies with complex employment issues. After moving back to her native Colorado, Liz spent the next several years at a regional Denver law firm heading up their employment law group, and running litigation, advice and training practices as defense side employer’s counsel for the firm. In 1994 she began providing impartial investigations for the Justice Department under a nationwide consent decree, and in 2007 she ventured out and started ILG, the first Denver-based firm specializing in impartial third-party investigations. She has never looked back. Liz has been providing impartial investigations since 1994, longer than any other workplace investigations practitioner in the Intermountain West. She is one of ILG’s two Lead Investigators. Liz specializes in complex investigations in the workplace, with a special focus on high profile or high litigation risk situations. Her practice runs the gamut from class-based discrimination investigations, hostile work environment, harassment, retaliation, whistle-blower, ethics violations and executive misconduct. Liz also heads up the Firm’s Workplace Culture Assessment team, which develops individualized programs for employers and governmental entities looking to assess and make changes in their policies, practices and workplace cultures. Liz sat on the Board of Directors of the Association of Workplace Investigators, North America’s premier workplace investigator association, for six years. She is currently engaged as a CoChair for the committee launching AWI\'s Advanced Investigator curriculum. Liz presents, writes and trains on investigation issues around the country. She serves as an expert witness in cases where workplace investigations are at issue. When not burrowing into a credibility analysis, Liz loves everything outdoors in Colorado. She is an avid tele skier (free the heel and free the mind), yogi, hiker, camper, river runner and hammock napper. She paints, reads and binges podcasts on all manner of topics. She is always looking for a good book recommendation, so if you\'ve read this far - send one!

Experience

1. Owner

   Investigations Law Group, Llc

   Aug 2015 — Present · Denver, CO

   Based in Denver, Colorado, Investigations Law Group (ILG) specializes in providing strategic response services to private industry, business and educational clients geared to building the workplace and college communities of the future. At ILG we have worked since 1995 to impact and change the conversation, by our sophisticated response solutions to conflict and crisis mediation, and by building intentional cultures where people do their best work and learning every day.At ILG / WPi, we offer a full range of workplace solutions for the modern workplace. From outsourced HR consulting and advice, to neutral third-party investigation, to entertaining and informative training, our goal is full service employment support for business.We are the best and most experienced third party investigators in the business, and regularly conduct investigations for businesses and entities of all varieties: from cities and municipalities, police force and fire protection districts, private employers, colleges and universities to nonprofits. Our work has included cases involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, securities violations, ethics code matters, insider trading, Sarbanes retaliation, and more run of the mill employee misconduct. With our team, there is no case too big or too small.We say it and we mean it, at our company, your problems are our passions. Let us help.

Education

• Colorado College

  Bachelor's degree

• Boston University School of Law

  JD

  1989 — 1992

• Colorado College

  BA

  1987 — 1992

• Colorado College

  Bachelor's degree

  1983 — 1987

Skills

• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Law
• Litigation
• Trials
• Human Resources
• Employment Discrimination
• Civil Litigation
• Discrimination
• Performance Management
• Trade Secrets
• Legal Compliance
• Non-Compete Agreements
• Training
• Arbitration
• Mediation
• Employment Law
• Hostile Environments
• Dispute Resolution
• Intellectual Property
• Insurance Law
• Affirmative Action Compliance
• Administrative Law
• Private Investigations
• Class Actions
• Retaliation