OUR EXPERTS
Alyssa Jarvis, Senior Investigator
Alyssa Jarvis has provided public, private and not-for-profit entities with all matters of investigative services, including complaint-based investigations, workplace climate surveys, person locates, surveillance/sub rosa, and residency verifications. Her investigations and findings were essential in the preparation of legal defenses and/or settlement packages in several publicized lawsuits that alleged use of force towards minors, assault and battery, discrimination, retaliation, and sexual harassment. Alyssa is skilled in producing high-quality, fact-based investigation reports with succinct and easily-discernable findings and analyses.
Alyssa’s investigations have uncovered sexual assault, harassment, discrimination, retaliation and other unprofessional conduct in educational institutions, often involving confidential and high-profile implications or outcomes. Likewise, her work has established unfounded allegations against various executive level agency leaders, to include college presidents, cabinet members at various K-12 educational institutions, and C-suite executives at public and private agencies. Alyssa has also overseen sensitive matters involving young children, which require an understanding of child development in order to thoroughly establish the facts of alleged or suspected incidents of mistreatment.
Alyssa graduated cum laude from the University of Wisconsin with a psychology degree, and magna cum laude from Wheaton College with a master’s degree in marriage family therapy.
Lisa Remmers, Senior Investigator
Lisa Remmers has comprehensive experience in all forms of complaint investigations, surveillance/sub rosa and subpoena service for a client base that includes attorneys, school districts, medical facilities, utility districts, and private companies. She has managed high-profile cases with discretion, including those that drew media coverage and directly implicated prominent figures within organizations leading to resignation or termination. Lisa’s client relation skills and commitment to results have earned her a stellar reputation among clients for delivering a logical, rational, and legally defensible work product.
Lisa has considerable skill in research, including tracking digital footprints. She underwent extensive training related to the Department of Education’s Title IX Final Rule, including training on the specific roles of Title IX Coordinators, Investigators, Decision-makers, and Advisors in Title IX proceedings. Lisa provides training courses for administrators and managers about Title IX matters and how to conduct sound internal investigations within their organizations.
Lisa graduated cum laude from California State University, Long Beach with a degree in journalism.
Brittney Hamilton, Senior Investigator
Brittney Hamilton’s efficiency and versatility has enabled her to conduct a vast array of large-scale investigations for academic and corporate entities that required interviewing dozens of witnesses, reviewing hours of video surveillance footage and/or documentary evidence, and addressing allegations occurring over the span of multiple years. In recent years, Brittney successfully managed an environment survey of 74 staff members from a single school site within a constricted timeframe.
Brittney has handled several matters that garnered attention from media outlets, including cases involving allegations that school law enforcement officers racially profiled and implemented improper use of force against a student and allegations surrounding the placement of a hidden surveillance camera inside a classroom. Several of Brittney’s cases necessitated her participation in employment termination hearings and unemployment insurance appeals board hearings, during which she provided credible testimony about her investigation and findings.
Brittney earned her law degree from Pepperdine University. Her legal expertise enables her to examine, evaluate and apply district policy and procedure to factual allegations in cases to further strengthen her findings.
Jacqueline Lee, Senior Investigator
Jacqueline Lee has investigated a wide range of school and workplace complaints, from age and race-based discrimination concerns to allegations of bias and retaliation impacting hiring, tenure and promotions. Jacqueline’s investigations into harassment and sexual misconduct have resulted in findings that revealed teachers’ inappropriate behavior toward minor students; unprofessional supervisor-employee relationships among colleagues; and workplace misconduct within a campus police agency. Her work has withstood legal scrutiny in special education compliance and wrongful termination lawsuits.
Jacqueline has worked with law firms, public and private school districts, municipalities and law enforcement agencies to ensure her reports meet clients’ preferred styles and unique needs. She has deliberately cultivated a patient, approachable and empathetic interviewing style that proves to be valuable when navigating certain investigative circumstances, such as while working with trauma victims or acquiring the cooperation of witnesses.
Jacqueline is a graduate of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Jacqueline previously worked as an investigative journalist for more than a decade in multiple states and has a deep understanding of public records, open meeting laws, and city governance. She also speaks Cantonese and Mandarin.
Tim Bernstein, Senior Investigator
Tim Bernstein has experience with a wide variety of investigations including workers compensation cases, background checks, surveillance requests, and fraud. He has investigated many aspects of financial impropriety related to K-12 school districts, community colleges, school boards and county departments of education. Tim’s financial forensic investigations for these various jurisdictions include school district insurance contract bids, collusion between contractors and employees, impropriety related to taxes on the part of accounting staff, mismanagement of Associated Student Body funds, board member campaign fundraising, and wire transfer fraud.
Some of the fraud investigations Tim conducted have led to the removal or resignation of high-level District administrators as well as referrals to law enforcement agencies. Tim has also overseen Title IX discrimination investigations leading to the removal or resignation of multiple school District employees.
Tim has a graduate degree from the University of Oxford, which equipped him with the ability to thoroughly research documentary and digital evidence and conduct methodical readings of such evidence.
Stephanie Way, Associate Investigator
Stephanie Way has conducted a variety of personnel investigations addressing matters such as employee misconduct; hostile work environment; and discrimination complaints related to sexual harassment, retaliation and disability. She prides herself upon providing private and public-sector clients timely, accurate and thorough findings clearly articulated in a succinct, meticulously researched work product.
Stephanie’s attention to detail has set her apart as a critical researcher of facts. Nicole Miller & Associates, Inc.’s clients depend on Stephanie’s experience in exhausting all resources to discover truth. Her kind and gentle interviewing techniques engender open communication and encourage transparency to ensure no detail is left unspoken. Our clients trust and expect Stephanie’s investigative experience in concisely reporting evidence-based findings.
Stephanie holds a journalism degree from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Her prior work experience in the community college system provided her with an understanding of the relationship between administrators and certificated and classified personnel. Stephanie formerly volunteered as a court appointed special advocate for children in the foster care system.
