PROBLEM: A couple had seven different bank accounts when they were married, but the wife never kept close tabs on them. Now the husband is using money from a joint account that the wife doesn’t realize is still open. SOLUTIONS: Bank records are like medical and cell phone records: you can get them without a […]
Clients who have seen the online “Nationwide criminal background check, $69” come-ons sometimes ask why we won’t ever say that someone has no criminal record. They also wonder why doing a proper criminal check in even a single state costs more than $69. This is why: But we missed one. We found out when the […]
Remember those law school exams that depended not as much on getting the right answer as on issue spotting? Usually you got a fact pattern and you had to look at all the ways those facts would present interesting legal questions for a judge to consider. Investigation is something like this, but instead of legal […]
The toughest nut to crack in many divorce asset searches is the private company. While people always want immediate access to bank accounts (and aren’t allowed to get them without discovery), you can always start to try to figure out what someone’s private company is worth. If a U.S. company is private, it doesn’t have […]
You are the Chief Investment Officer screening possible targets for a $5 million investment in a non-public asset. Whether you work at a family office, a private equity fund or somewhere else, the prospective deal flow should be coming at you good and hard. If you are not seeing a flood of potential investment targets, […]
We’ve written before about the illegal trade in bank account information that a lot of investigators and lawyers get mixed up in. See for instance That Bank Account Information Your Investigator Got? Probably a Crime. Without a court order or subpoena, banks just are not supposed to hand over account information except in extremely limited […]
For those of us who thought Jeffrey Epstein probably had a larger group of rich and powerful acquaintances than we had known about, the Wall Street Journal appears to have proven us right. A story over the weekend says the following people spent a little (or quite a lot of time) with Epstein even after […]
Hiring good people is getting a lot harder, and not just because there are fewer candidates in a lot of industries. With AI-enabled cheating, grade inflation, and the shunning of standardized tests by colleges and graduate schools, how is a hiring manager supposed to know who’s a good fit? My prediction: Good companies will have […]
We’ve written many times about the questionnaire we hand out to clients who want a divorce asset search. If you want one, just contact us and we’ll send it along. Based on the many questionnaires we’ve reviewed over the years, here are some tips on what kinds of questions you the divorcing party should be […]
ChatGPT now comes up in most of the extended conversations I have with lawyers about how things are going. Many rave about how easy it is to have this robot whip up a simple motion or even, in one example, “a short speech about NATO defense capabilities.” While it may be true that ChatGPT can […]
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