Every service below is grounded in the same standard: an opinion that's independent, current, and defensible under cross-examination — whether you retained me or opposing counsel did.
Vocational evaluation services, built for the courtroom.
Areas of Practice
Personal Injury
Assessing how an injury affects a person's ability to work, and quantifying the resulting loss of earning capacity.
Family Law
Evaluating earning capacity for child and spousal support. Including imputation of income and a party's realistic ability to become self-supporting.
Workers' Compensation / Industrial Injury
Analyzing the vocational impact of a work-related injury and the realistic potential for return to work.
Employment Law
Evaluating earning capacity, mitigation, and labor market access in wrongful termination, discrimination, and related matters.
Social Security Disability
Vocational expert testimony regarding a claimant's capacity to work in the national economy.
Earning Capacity & Loss of Earning Capacity Analysis
Using current U.S. Department of Labor and Bureau of Labor Statistics data, I establish a reasoned opinion of pre- and post-event earning capacity — and the loss between them, if any. Built to withstand scrutiny, and to help the trier of fact understand what an injury or disability actually costs someone vocationally and economically.
Employability & Placement Consulting
Beyond whether someone can work — whether suitable jobs realistically exist and are accessible to them, in their actual labor market. Includes job placement consulting, labor market surveys, and occupational analysis.
Vocational Rehabilitation & Return-to-Work Planning
Return-to-work planning, resume preparation, interview training, job search assistance, and post-employment follow-up, grounded in the same evaluative rigor as the litigation work.
Ergonomic Evaluations & Worksite Assessments
From a standard on-site evaluation to a comprehensive medical-legal assessment — reviewing job demands, medical records, and functional capacity to modify tools, equipment, and workstations so an injury doesn't become a career sentence.
Trial, deposition, arbitration, and administrative hearings. Thousands of Social Security disability hearings since 2017, retained across California, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Utah, Texas, and Hawaii.
Expert Witness Testimony
Additional Services
Every evaluation draws on the same core methodology:
- Standardized vocational testing
- Review of education, employment, and earnings records
- Interpretation of functional capacity evaluations, independent medical evaluations, and treating-source records
- Transferable skills analysis, including SkillTran's Transferable Skills Service
- Work history classification via the DOT, O*NET, and SCO
- Identification of job modifications and reasonable accommodations
- Education and retraining assessment
- Labor market surveys across the relevant regional and national economy
Certified Rehabilitation Counselor · Certified Vocational Evaluation Specialist · Social Security Vocational Expert since 2017
Eight years in workers' compensation and disability insurance before founding this practice — trained under respected vocational experts, and grounded in an independent, evidence-first methodology on every case. President, Executive Board, California Chapter of IARP. Published author on vocational evaluations in family law.
Meet Your Evaluator
Jessica Reyes, M.Ed., CRC, CVE
Fee Schedule
Vocational Evaluation Services
$350/hour | $3,500 nonrefundable retainer
Covers case file and records review, interviews, testing, labor market research, and report preparation. A $3,500 nonrefundable retainer (applied to the first 10 hours) is required to initiate services.
Depositions & Court Appearances
$450/hour
$900 minimum for the first two hours, due day of testimony.
Ergonomic Evaluations
$750 standard / $1,200 comprehensive
Travel
$100/hour Plus reimbursement of reasonable and necessary expenses.
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