Rebecca A. Speer, Esq.
A former litigator, Rebecca Speer left big-firm practice more than two decades ago and launched a niche firm dedicated to helping clients stay ahead of problems. Focused on the successful prevention and management of workplace misconduct and complaints, Rebecca’s work takes her to the intersection of employment law, compliance, human resources, and security.
Career highlights:
With an emphasis on allegations affecting senior and executive management, Rebecca has performed hundreds of independent investigations for leading companies across industries, for professional services firms, and for educational institutions. She regularly works with executive management, in-house counsel, outside law firms, and boards of directors to deliver first-rate services in the investigations context. She also adeptly testifies about her investigations in legal proceedings.
Rebecca provides leadership in the field of workplace investigations and the prevention and management of workplace misconduct more generally. She participates as a member of Association of Workplace Investigators and is a Co-Convener of AWI’s Local Circle in San Francisco. As a member of the Society of Independent Workplace Investigators, she worked with attorney-investigators at the height of the profession to establish a Code of Ethics to advance the practice of independent investigations. Rebecca also served on the Technical Committee assembled by ASIS International to develop an American National Standard on Investigations. Throughout her career, she has spoken widely in a variety of forums about investigations and employee-relations practices.
From 2017 to 2020, Rebecca co-founded Tribu Partners LLP, applying decades of experience to empowering clients to build and sustain exceptional in-house investigative teams. With a focus on organizational development, she designed important systems and processes that surround internal investigations, drove skills and efficiencies, and cultivated a sense of community, mission, and standards among in-house investigative teams.
As a nationally-recognized expert in workplace threat management, Rebecca has testified before Congress, contributed to ground-breaking work by the FBI, worked with local law enforcement on critical incident response, and chaired a successful national effort by SHRM and ASIS International to develop an American National Standard on Workplace Violence Prevention and Intervention. She has worked with large organizations to implement structured workplace violence prevention programs.
Rebecca is a trained ombudsman and mediator.
Education and Professional Activities
Rebecca is a graduate of Stanford University and the Santa Clara University School of Law, where she served as an Articles Editor of the Santa Clara Law Review and as an intern to the California Supreme Court.
A member of the State Bar of California, Rebecca belongs to the Labor and Employment Law Sections of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of California, and local bar associations, as well as to professional organizations in the areas of compliance, security, and human resources. Rebecca began her career at Morrison & Foerster and Seyfarth Shaw.
