Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors as Neutral Vocational Experts

Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors typically hold at least Master's degrees which enables them to work as counselors and evaluators with state and federal agencies, or in private practice. The experience of working as a Counselor, placing people in jobs and gaining familiarity with the vocational landscape, enables them to serve in court proceedings as a Vocational Expert.

Vocational Experts are able to testify in court cases that determine Earning Capacity such as in a divorce-maintenance dispute, changes in Earning Capacity in cases regarding injury, and presumed Earning Capacity in cases involving injury to children.

The Vocational Experts have a variety of tools at their disposal including vocational testing, work and educational histories, labor market information and their own experience with the job market. Above all else, the Vocational Expert is held by ethical standards to provide testimony as evidence that is neutral to both parties, despite being hired by only one of them.

The goal of the Experts at WRTWC is to provide testimony regardless of the source of our payment. By operating in this fashion, our experts have gained the trust of judges and have even been hired by both sides of divorce cases to produce Earning Capacity reports.


By striving to stay neutral and testify based on the facts of a case, our experts have been able to provide useful testimony that helps move cases toward a conclusion. Our testimony has proven to be helpful in divorce cases as it can save money for each party.  With neutral, fact-based testimony, our findings can be quickly accepted by both sides, without further argument.


If there is any questions you have regarding a case that may be require a vocational expert, please contact me at jesse.ogren@wrtwc.com, or at 612-353-5154.