M2 Resource Group, Inc is a professional consulting company that provides customized solutions and expertise to attorneys, government officials, public safety organizations, and private agencies for EMS, fire & rescue and police services and plaintiff or defendant consultation with expert witness services for attorneys involved in civil and criminal litigation. M2 Resource Group provides services including education and management training, training seminars and conferences, fit for duty examinations, psychological testing and consulting; PTSD and TBI evaluation and treatment.
M2 Resource Group, Inc provides expert witness opinions, litigation support, risk management and consultation on emergency medical service, fire, firefighting, fire and EMS response and 911 matters to plaintiff and defense attorneys, risk management professionals, as well as the general public.
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M2 Resource Group, Inc provides litigation support and expert witness testimony to both plaintiff and defense attorneys in the areas of: Fire, EMS, Ambulance Operations, fire and EMS training accidents, employee investigations, standard of care issues, employee termination issues, policy and procedure and new employee testing procedures.
Additional Expertise:
Psychological Fit for Duty, EMS Standard of Care, NFPA 1582
John K. Murphy, JD, MS, PA-C, EFO, retired as a deputy fire chief after 32 years of career service; a practicing attorney licensed in Washington State and New York State whose focus is on employment practices liability, training safety, employment policy and practices, forensic evaluation on fire and EMS operations, internal investigations, subject matter expert in pre-hospital EMS and Fire Operations and consulting on risk management for private and public entities. Murphy’s past fire experience has been as a paramedic/firefighter; Chief Fire Officer, Chief of Training, Emergency Operations Chief, Health and Safety Officer and educator and facilitator of safety and health-care issues in the fire service. He is a Physicians Assistant and has been a practicing Physicians’ Assistant since 1977 with a focus in urgent, emergency, occupational medicine and pre-hospital medical care. He is the Vice President of M2 Resource Group, Inc. Mr. Murphy speaks and writes extensively on Fire and EMS Legal issues nationally.
He is the author of Legal, Political & Regulatory Environment in EMS ISBN-10: 0135036038 ISBN-13: 97801350360372015 Prentice Hall and Contributing Author - Cooling the Flames: Verbal De-escalation of Mentally Ill and Aggressive Patients. A Comprehensive Guidebook for Firefighters and Emergency Medical Services Ellis Amdur, M.A., N.C.C., C.M.H.S. and John K. Murphy JD, MS, PA-C, EFO. July 2015. ISBN No: 9781618131966.
Dr. Beth Murphy, PsyD retired as a firefighter after 12 years of service to pursue and complete her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. She is a practicing clinician with a focus on workplace stress, PTSD, Cancer Survivors and TBI. Her population focus is on police and fire agencies, as well as military personnel. While in the fire service, she was a firefighter/EMT and member of the Department’s Hazardous Materials Response Unit. She was also a member of the Peer Support Team, which provided day to day support for fire personnel as well as critical incident stress management (CISM). She works with a varied population including, juvenile fire setters, severe and chronic mental illness, and individuals and families affected by cancer, and contracts to provide services with the Veterans Administration (VA) for returning and active duty military suffering from PTSD and TBI. Her dissertation focused on stress affecting Women Firefighters. She has presented material at numerous local and national conferences; Washington State Psychological Association annual meeting, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies annual meeting, the international Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC). IWomens Conference and the Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC) on Suicide Prevention for Firefighters. She is the Psychologist for the Washington State Parks Critical Incident Management Program and is the CEO and President in M2 Resource Group, Inc.
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About John K. Murphy, JD, PA-C, MS, EFO - Expert Witness
Fire & EMS Training Classes, Expert Witness
John K. Murphy, JD, MS, PA-C, EFO, FACC retired as a deputy fire chief after 32 years of service; a practicing attorney whose focus is on employment practices liability, training safety, employment policy and practices, forensic evaluation on fire and EMS operations, internal investigations and consulting on risk management for private and public entities. Murphy’s past fire experience has been as a paramedic firefighter; a Chief Fire Officer, Chief of Training, Emergency Operations Chief, Health and Safety Officer. He is currently practicing as an Attorney and National lecturer on Fire and EMS Legal Issues.
Dr. Beth Murphy, PsyD retired as a firefighter after 12 years of service to pursue and complete her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. She is a practicing clinician with a focus on workplace stress, PTSD, Cancer Survivors and TBI. Her population focus is on police and fire agencies, as well as military personnel. While in the fire service, she was a firefighter/EMT and member of the Department’s Hazardous Materials Response Unit. She was also a member of the Peer Support Team, which provided day to day support for fire personnel as well as critical incident stress management (CISM).
M2 Resource Group, Inc provides litigation support affecting the fire service; reconstruction of incidents affecting fire departments and ambulance operations; wrongful termination issues, testing and promotion standards, research, legal brief preparation and general law practice to include franchise acquisitions, contracts, review of policy and procedure manuals and media relations assisting fire chief executive officers in dealing with the media.
Member, International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), Emergency Medical Services Division Member and Attorney, International Society of Fire Service Instructors (ISFSI) Member, Association of Fire Service Attorneys Member, National Society of Executive Fire Officers Fire Engineering Educator, author, speaker, moderator and podcast host International Society of Fire Service Instructors (ISFSI) - Legal Advisor
Education and numerous expert witness cases.
Mr. John Murphy, JD, PA-C is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars and has been invited speaker at IAFC Fire-Rescue International, IAFC Fire-Rescue Med, FDIC, Lafayette (LA) Fire Training Center; Missouri Fire/Rescue Conference; West Virginia Public Safety Expo; King County Training Officer Development Academy, NBI Seminars, Monterey Fire (CA), Charleston Fire (SC) and many others. Mr. Murphy is a frequent contributor to Fire Engineering's Blog, curator of the Fire Engineering Policy Bank and the popular Fire Service Court Blog Talk Radio.
Dr. Beth Murphy, PsyD is a sought after speaker on firefighter issues including Firefighter Mental Health and Suicide, has presented at the Washington State Psychological Association's annual meeting, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies , International Association of Fire Chief (IAFC) and Fire Engineering's Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC). She is the peer support Psychologist and educator for the Washington State Parks.
Legal, Political & Regulatory Environment in EMS ISBN-10: 0135036038 ISBN-13: 97801350360372015 Prentice Hall
Contributing Author - Cooling the Flames: Verbal De-escalation of Mentally Ill and Aggressive Patients. A Comprehensive Guidebook for Firefighters and Emergency Medical Services Ellis Amdur, M.A., N.C.C., C.M.H.S. and John K. Murphy JD, MS, PA-C, EFO. July 2015. ISBN No: 9781618131966.
Numerous articles on fireengineering.com related to fire and EMS legal issues
Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP Mr. Joseph Musso (703) 931- 5500 4900 Seminary Roar, Suite 650, Alexandria, Virginia 22311 Consultation for the Plaintiffs West Texas Fertilizer Plant explosion.
Kevin Brown, Paoli & Brown, P.C. 120 W. Callender Street P.O. Box 1450 Livingston, MT 59047 Workplace Harassment
Originally published on HGExperts.com.
As an active duty Deputy Fire Chief, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all of my firefighters as well. Creating an environment free from harassment, intimidation, discrimination and other such harmful behavior was as much important as creating a safe emergency scene.
