Overview of Services
Specialty areas include family law, disability insurance, industrial injury, and employment law. Vocational evaluations are utilized to determine a person’s earning capacity either 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.
Vocational Analysis
Various techniques will be used to determine past and future earning capacity.
- Standard vocational tests
- Education, employment, and legal records
- Transferable skill analysis via the McCroskey Vocational Quotient System (MVQS) and Transferable Skills Service (TSS) through SkillTran
- Identify job modifications and reasonable accommodations
- Identify education and retraining possibilities
- Identify jobs available in relevant labor market
- Identify causality and apportionment in worker's compensation cases
Jessica Bohne M. Ed., CRC
Jessica Bohne has extensive professional experience in both the public and private sector, assisting individuals with disabilities to define their return to work objectives and reach their overall career goals in employment. She holds a master's degree in Rehabilitation Counseling and has held the CRC (Certified Rehabilitation Counselor) designation for over 9 years. Jessica has been actively retained for her diverse expertise on multiple family law, disability insurance, and industrial injury cases and has testified in nearly 4,000 social security 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 family law, workers compensation, long term and short term disability insurance, personal injury, and employment law cases: Expert assessment and testimony on an individual's capacity to work, transferable skills, research on jobs that exist in the local and national labor market, and determination of diminished 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