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ABOUT

Scott K. Nelson is the principal of S. K. Nelson & Company. Employed exclusively as a private sector investigator since 1986, he has been a fixture in Central California's legal and investigative communities virtually his entire adult life. 

Nelson began his career in the 1980s as a staff investigator in a law office working under the tutelage of trial attorneys and paralegal staff. He later served as an investigator with what was then one of the Central Valley's oldest private investigative agencies, leaving as a vice president to start S. K. Nelson & Company in 1992. Since then, he has conducted and supervised virtually every type of legal investigation imaginable. His clients include some of Central California's finest law firms, numerous public entities, former state and federal prosecutors, elected officials, and private enterprise.

 
Nelson obtained the Certified Legal Investigator® and Certified Fraud Examiner credentials through the professional certification programs of the National Association of Legal Investigators and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He also earned the Certified Professional Investigator credential through the California Association of Licensed Investigators.

 
Nelson has been licensed by the California Department of Consumer Affairs since 1990, and he is an Employment Risk Management Authority approved panel investigator.

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Nelson is a member of the National Association of Legal Investigators, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and a charter member of the Association of Workplace Investigators. He has served in a variety of industry association offices at the national, state, and local levels, including local program committee chair, national fund raising committee chair, legislative committee member, district governor, and regional director.

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