Objective. Experienced. Discreet.
How organizations respond when allegations of inappropriate workplace behavior arise reflects their values and has the potential to influence employee morale, culture and public opinion. Investigations that are managed internally often face several challenges: employees routinely perceive them as biased, HR professionals have a vested interest in protecting the important working relationships they have with client groups and organizations often don’t have the resources or skill sets they need to conduct time-sensitive and often highly complex investigations. Whether your organization is looking to outsource all of your employee relations investigations or you need an external expert to discreetly step in when a complaint arises, Artixan Investigations can help.
Our Investigators are seasoned attorneys who have previously worked at top employment law firms, as in-house counsel at Fortune 500 companies and as senior HR and compliance professionals. They are licensed to practice in NY, NJ, PA and CA, including Association of Workplace Investigators certificate holders (AWI-CH), and we also have HR professionals with extensive investigations experience. Our team has conducted hundreds of impartial investigations involving harassment, discrimination, retaliation, whistleblower complaints and other areas of employee misconduct in a variety of industries including pharma, tech, financial services, not-for-profit, media and hospitality. We also regularly train and advise HR professionals on best practices and skill building for conducting workplace investigations.
Xan Raskin, Esq., SPHR, the founding Member of Artixan Investigations PLLC, has conducted hundreds of sensitive workplace investigations involving allegations of misconduct, including harassment, discrimination, retaliation and related issues. She is a seasoned attorney with more than twenty-five years of experience. Early in her professional career, Xan was an employment law attorney at Proskauer Rose and went on to senior legal roles at PepsiCo and Bristol-Myers Squibb. She also was the Chief Human Resources Officer and member of the senior leadership team for Krush Technologies, a software development start-up company.
Xan regularly advises and trains human resources professionals on conducting workplace investigations, is a certified mediator and serves on the Mediation Panel for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, helping to resolve employment discrimination cases as a third-party neutral. She is also a member of the Association for Workplace Investigators (AWI), on the Board of Directors of the Women’s Forum of New York, and is co-founder of Just Inked, an ensemble of theater lovers who support the Signature Theatre’s mission by serving as ambassadors for diversifying and expanding the Signature community. She received her JD degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as a Senior Editor on the American Criminal Law Review and has a BA in Mass Communication Studies from the UCLA Honors Program, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude.