Julie founded EPG, a legal and Human Resources consulting firm, in 1998. As an attorney, she is admitted to practice law in MA and NH, and she has HR certifications as SPHR and SHRM-SCP. She is a frequent author, lecturer, counselor, and trainer on workplace issues.

Recent Professional Highlights:

• Elected Fellow to College of Labor and Employment Attorneys
• Elected to be a Board Member and Annual Conference Chair for the Association of Workplace Investigators (AWI), 2013-2015
• Member of AWI's 2020 Guiding Principles Task Force
• New England and MA Super Lawyer each year from 2010 to 2020.
• Named Top Women Attorneys in MA, as published in Boston Magazine, from 2016 to 2020
• Certified trainer by the MCAD on harassment prevention and conducting investigations
• Received certificates from T9 and ATIXA training seminars
• Vice Chair of the HR Board for the Town of Wellesley, 2014 to present.
• Elected to be 2010-2011 Chair of the NHBA Labor & Employment Section
• Faculty member for AWI Training Institute for Workplace Investigators
• Speaker at ABA's Annual Labor and Employment conference in Nov. 2012
• Speaker at the American Institute of CPA's conference in Nov. 2018
• Speaker at national conferences for the ABA's Labor and Employment Section and Committee on Employee Rights and Responsibilities; BLR; AWI annual conference; and the Annual National CLE Conference in CO
• Called upon to give expert witness testimony in employment litigation cases nationwide
• Regular participant as speaker and moderator of programs in CLE and HR courses
• Co-authored 4 op-ed pieces for Fortune 2018-2019
• Quoted in a 2/13/19 Washington Post article, “REI's CEO and the Era of Zero Tolerance: ‘Errors of Judgment Were Made;'”11/4/19 article in Yahoo!News, by the Agency France-Press (AFP), “Workplace Romance: It's Complicated in #MeToo Era; "SHRM's Spring 2020 HR Magazine article, “Toxic Talk: How Should HR Handle Contentious Political Discussions in the Workplace?”

Specialties

• Investigation
• Legal

Subpecialties

• workplace investigation
• independent investigation
• internal investigation
• sexual harassment
• discrimination
• retaliation
• EEO
• human resources
• HR
• employment practices
• termination
• performance management
• layoff
• disability accommodation
• hiring
• firing