Principal

Martha Norberg, CPA, CFE

Martha began her career as a special agent with the IRS' Criminal Investigation Division, where her activities included investigating financial fraud, money laundering, violations of federal income tax statutes and other financial crimes. During her 13-year tenure at the IRS, Martha also served as a managerial special agent and resident lead instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia, teaching classes primarily focused on behavioral sciences and investigative techniques. In 1990, Martha left the government to form Seabold Associates, operating since 2000 as Seabold Group. From 1990 to 2000, Martha worked as a consultant for the U.S. Justice Department's International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP), where she provided on-site technical and strategic assistance to law enforcement professionals in Latin America on matters related both to investigation techniques and organizational structure and effectiveness. In that capacity, Martha worked closely with a variety of government officials in Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, and most of Central America.

Since 1999, Martha has been retained by counsel and private clients on numerous civil and criminal matters, including matters involving misappropriation of funds, mortgage fraud, Medicaid fraud, income tax evasion, embezzlement, business partner disputes, and many other matters requiring forensic accounting services. In addition, Martha is frequently retained to conduct workplace and internal investigations involving allegations such as corruption, employee misuse of computers, sexual harassment, employee misconduct, discrimination, and other types of allegations. Fluent in Spanish, Martha has also been retained in matters involving Spanish-speaking employees, witnesses and defendants. Martha is a frequent lecturer, offering training to diverse groups and organizations on advanced interviewing techniques and conducting internal investigations.

Martha was certified as a public accountant in 1984 and became a Certified Fraud Examiner in October 2011. She is a member of the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the Washington Association of Legal Investigators. Martha began her accounting studies after earning her undergraduate degree in Foreign Languages from Washington State University. She also attended the University of Valencia in Spain.

principal

Kris Cappel, JD

Before joining Seabold Group in 2000, Kris practiced law for 11 years both as a federal prosecutor in New York and as a civil litigator in San Francisco. While at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn, New York, Kris was responsible for a wide range of prosecutions and investigations including, tax, credit card and bank fraud, murder, racketeering, postal and bank robbery, illegal narcotics, gun trafficking, kidnapping, extortion, immigration offenses, bribery and kickback schemes and public corruption. Kris' duties also included negotiating plea agreements, presenting cases to the grand jury, conducting trials and hearings, and preparing and arguing criminal appeals before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Prior to her appointment as an Assistant United States Attorney, Kris was an associate at the San Francisco law firms of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen (now Bingham McCutchen) and Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges (now Thelen, Reid & Priest), concentrating her practice in the areas of employment law, complex commercial litigation and auditor liability.

As a member of Seabold Group, Kris has been retained to provide investigative services in a number of diverse matters including due diligence of company officers and investors, pension fraud, corporate fraud and embezzlement, sexual harassment, employee misconduct, wrongful death litigation, missing persons inquiries, clergy sex abuse, estate litigation and health care and securities fraud.

In recent years, Kris has focused her practice almost exclusively on workplace investigations, conducting hundreds of investigations involving allegations ranging from public corruption and embezzlement to harassment and discrimination. Kris has worked closely with inside and outside counsel of public and private companies, as well as with a number of city attorneys and public sector counsel in the Pacific Northwest region.

Kris is a member (inactive) of the Washington, Utah and California State Bars, as well as the Association of Washington Cities and the Society for Human Resource Management. Kris attended the University of Utah College of Law, where she graduated Order of the Coif and served on the Utah Law Review as an associate editor.

ASSOCIATE

Anna Rendes, JD

Anna originally joined Seabold Group as Executive Assistant in 2010.  After graduating from law school, she returned in March 2015 as Associate. Anna specializes in workplace and internal investigations. She has investigated allegations involving a wide range of issues including discrimination, sexual harassment, hostile work environment, retaliation, ethics violations, and employee misconduct, among others. In the course of investigations, she has worked with the full spectrum of employee positions, from entry level, to supervisors and managers, and up to elected officials. Anna is skilled in planning investigations; interviewing complainants, subjects, and witnesses; identifying and reviewing relevant documents and IT evidence; making findings and reporting those findings succinctly and thoroughly.

Before and throughout law school, Anna worked with a number of local legal aid organizations, including Disability Rights Washington, Solid Ground, King County Bar Association’s Housing Justice Project, Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic, and Seattle Community Law Center.  Anna also interned at Reed, Longyear, Malnati, Ahrens PLLC where she worked in the areas of Social Security advocacy and employment law.

Anna received her JD in 2014 from Seattle University School of Law and her undergraduate degree in 2008 from University of Oregon. She also attended the University of East Anglia in England. She is a member of the Washington State Bar, King County Bar Association, and Association of Workplace Investigators.

office manager

Peg Benson

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