Cynthia Grimley & Associates

Cynthia Grimley & Associates provides vocational and rehabilitation assessments, mostly for attorneys handling injury, disability and employment disputes. Trading as Cynthia P. Grimley & Associates, LLC, the firm judges how a person's condition affects their ability to work and what future care they will need, basing its findings on objective evidence and current data.

What Cynthia Grimley & Associates does

• Vocational expert evaluations: assessments of employability, transferable skills, earning capacity and access to the labour market.
• Life care planning: plans setting out a person's future care needs, plus critiques of plans prepared by others.
• Legal support consulting: advice to defence and plaintiff attorneys on vocational rehabilitation issues.
• Standardised testing and job analysis: psychometric testing and analysis of job demands.
• Return-to-work services: career counselling, job placement, targeted job search, interview skills and job-person matching.
• Medical case management: coordinating care alongside rehabilitation planning.

Customers and markets

The firm acts for both sides in litigation. Case types include workers' compensation, personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, divorce and employment discrimination, as well as claims under the Jones Act, FELA and the Longshore and Harbor Workers Act, and Social Security or long-term disability claims.

Key facts

• Founded: 1986
• Certifications: board certified vocational experts and psychometric evaluators; certified life care planners