Practitioner-Led Guidance for HR, Compliance, and In-House Legal Teams That Conduct Workplace Investigations
Furia Internal Investigations guides HR, compliance, and in-house legal counsel teams in handling internal workplace investigations more effectively through training, consulting, and speaking engagements.
Organizations typically face an early question about how to handle an internal investigation: keep the matter entirely in-house, even if the personnel involved have limited formal investigative training, or retain outside counsel to conduct the investigation from start to finish. Neither approach is the right fit in every matter.
Serious complaints benefit from experienced investigative guidance, but do not always justify law-firm billing for the entire matter. Other matters can be handled internally, but only if the team has the training, structure, and support to do the work correctly.
Furia Internal Investigations offers a third path: building internal capacity, so your team can handle more of the work correctly, while providing experienced support when a matter becomes more complex, sensitive, or consequential.
Jamie Furia is a former partner at Lowenstein Sandler LLP, where she spent more than a decade guiding Fortune 500 companies and other public- and private-sector clients through highly sensitive internal investigations.
Today, she uses that experience to help organizations build the internal capacity to handle investigations more effectively. She provides training and consulting services nationwide and speaks to professional groups on the craft of internal investigations.
Jamie conducts in-person workshops for HR professionals, compliance officers, in-house counsel, and their teams. Each workshop is built around the kinds of matters your organization is most likely to handle, including, but not limited to, harassment, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and financial irregularities.
The workshops are practitioner-to-practitioner. Every attendee receives the Furia Internal Investigations Practitioner’s Guide, a bound reference covering the full investigation lifecycle. The guide includes checklists and sample templates, along with the frameworks used throughout the workshop.
Jamie also provides advisory support during live investigations, working behind the team that is running the matter rather than replacing it. That support often begins at intake, when the organization is deciding whether a formal investigation is necessary and, if so, how the matter should be categorized, scoped, staffed, and documented.
When an internal investigation is warranted, Jamie works alongside the organization’s personnel to help them do what the matter requires, no more and no less. From there, the engagement continues through interviews, credibility analysis, findings, and reporting as needed. In practice, that may mean reviewing a scoping memo before the investigation takes the wrong shape, helping prepare for a difficult subject interview, sitting in on credibility discussions, documenting key investigative steps, or reviewing findings before they are shared with leadership, the board, or counsel.
The documentation matters. A well-documented investigation is easier to defend later, whether the organization is responding to a lawsuit, an agency inquiry, an arbitration, or another dispute process. The level of support is calibrated to the matter: sometimes it is an hour of consultation, and sometimes it is the life of the investigation.
Jamie is available for speaking engagements focused on the craft and lifecycle of internal investigations, including keynotes, breakout sessions, panel presentations, CLE programs, practical seminars, and closed-audience presentations for HR associations, in-house counsel groups, bar sections, compliance organizations, and leadership teams. Recent and available topics include:
Sessions typically run 45 to 90 minutes and are tailored to the audience and format. Practitioners need tactics they can use in the next matter. Counsel need the doctrine and privilege implications. Executives need to understand the risk picture and the decisions that matter most. In all cases, the goal is to help audiences recognize investigation issues, ask better questions, and make sound decisions before a matter becomes harder to control.
To discuss training, consulting, or a speaking engagement, please email Jamie directly at jamie@furiafirm.com.
July 9, 2026
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