Overview of Services
Specialty areas include family law, personal injury, industrial injury, and employment law. Vocational evaluations are utilized to determine a person’s earning capacity in general or before and after an injury. We carefully evaluate impairments from an injury, education and work history, rehabilitation potential, transferable skills and labor market conditions to determine damages from loss of earning capacity. Evaluations are provided for plaintiffs and defendants. We also provide vocational expert witness testimony in trial, deposition, and arbitration settings.
Vocational Analysis
Various techniques will be used to determine past and future earning capacity.
- Standard vocational tests
- Education, employment, and earnings records
- Transferable skill analysis via Transferable Skills Service (TSS) through SkillTran
- Identify job modifications and reasonable accommodations
- Identify education and retraining possibilities
- Identify jobs available in the relevant labor market
Jessica Bohne M. Ed., CRC, CVE
Jessica Bohne has extensive professional experience in both the public and private sectors as a vocational rehabilitation counselor and as an expert witness and vocational evaluator. She holds a master's degree in Rehabilitation Counseling as well as CRC, CVE, and SSVE designations. Jessica has been actively retained for her diverse expertise on multiple personal injury, family law, and industrial injury cases and has testified in trial and deposition settings as well as thousands of Social Security disability hearings as a vocational expert witness. She provides her unbiased expert opinion for every case based on her educational background, as well as evidence-based, relevant, factual information.
Some examples of the types of cases Jessica specializes in are:
- Vocational Expert for personal injury, family law, workers' compensation, and employment law cases: Expert assessment and testimony on an individual's capacity to work, assessment of transferable skills, research on jobs that exist in the local and national labor market, and determination of earning capacity and loss of earning capacity.
- Vocational Rehabilitation: Interpretation and analysis of functional capacity evaluations, independent medical evaluations, vocational evaluations, transferable skills analysis, labor market surveys, and individual work plans. Interpretation of vocational rehabilitation reports and assessment of reduced capacities.
- Vocational Evaluation: Utilizing medical, psychological, social, vocational, and educational data, past and present work for assessment and vocational counseling.
- Employment: Resume preparation, interview training, job searches, labor market surveys, job surveys, job placement, individual work plan implementation, and post-employment follow-up. Evaluate and determine essential job requirements and functions.
- Ergonomic Evaluations: Modifying tools, equipment, or workstations so that workers can perform essential job functions within their physical or mental capacities. Modifying tools, equipment, and workstations for the prevention of additional or continued injuries.
Education:
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI - Master of Education in Rehabilitation Counseling
California State University, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA - Bachelor of Arts in Sociology