About Us

Dr. Jeffrey Kiel is the owner of Vocational Solutions, LLC, a national company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas that specializes in vocational evaluation, forensic assessment, vocational rehabilitation services, life care plans, and earning capacity for litigated and non-litigated cases.  Dr. Jeff Kiel has testified in over 7,000 SSDI Administrative hearings for Social Security Disability and maintains a Federal security clearance. He has a clinical practice in Vocational Rehabilitation Services wherein he performs Vocational Rehabilitation and service recommendations for individuals with a variety of disabilities including the ages of several years old through adult years. He enjoys performing vocational evaluations for individuals with Autism Spectrum to assess individual strengths while overcoming barriers to the workplace.

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American Board of Vocational Experts
Diplomate Certification

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Dr. Kiel's over 20 years of experience and his methodology have been peer-reviewed to become a Diplomate, Board Certified Vocational Expert through the American Board of Vocational Experts, and a Certified Life Care Planner through the International Commission on Healthcare Certification. Dr. Kiel has consulted and been retained by Plaintiff and Defense Firms in a multitude of cases. Moreover, Dr. Kiel has been retained on cases to conduct Vocational Rehabilitation Evaluation and provide expert witness consulting and testimony for a variety of disabilities and types of cases. Dr. Kiel has been retained and/or consulted on numerous cases involving Traumatic Brain Injuries, Pediatric Wage Loss Analysis, and Orthopedic injuries. Dr. Kiel's Doctoral level courses in Industrial/Organizational Psychology provide him with a strong quantitative foundation to examine peer-reviewed literature, methodology, review and examine personnel records, and ascertain the psychometric soundness of opposing experts' testing instruments and reporting.

For approximately 18 years, Dr. Kiel has enjoyed working with the oil and gas or petroleum industry. and actively researching numerous national and regional occupational families within the labor market. Additionally, he enjoys evaluating individuals on the Autism Spectrum. Dr. Kiel is experienced being deposed by the Plaintiff and Defense for cases on numerous occasions coupled with trial testimony. Dr. Kiel is equipped with practical and theoretical knowledge.

We offer a no-cost case review and Dr. Kiel enjoys volunteering his time to assist Veterans related with Vocational Rehabilitation and community resources.

We handle the following types of cases nationally:

  • Vocational Rehabilitation and Career Counseling
  • Personal Injury and Civil Litigation, Plaintiff and Defense
  • Employment Law Cases
  • High School transition services
  • Life Care Plans
  • Loss of Household Services
  • Medical Cost Projections
  • Medical Malpractice Cases
  • Earning Capacity Analysis
  • Pediatric Wage Loss
  • Oil and Gas Industry Injuries
  • Employment-related cases
  • Medical Malpractice related cases
  • Special Education and Rehabilitation
  • Social Security Disability
  • Social Security Disability - Vocational Assessments
  • Worker's Compensation
  • U.S. Department of Labor – OWCP Defense
  • ERISA
  • Long Term Disability
  • Transferable Skills Analysis
  • Labor Market Surveys
  • Worker’s Compensation