In a financial investigation it’s easy to get buried under all the words and numbers and to forget about emotions – those of your client, the person you’re investigating, and your own. It’s understandable but something to guard against. The Power of Dance One reason I love to watch dance is that it provides a […]
Could someone getting divorced use artificial intelligence to conduct an asset search? Sure, it just wouldn’t be a very good one. It’s hard to get that far into your day right now without hearing about ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence program that is making professors change their exam questions and prompting fabulous cartoons about its lack […]
Is it in poor taste to argue against leaning too hard on credentials when you post something on LinkedIn, a platform where people showcase their credentials for all to see? I don’t think so. If you want a lawyer who will do a good job drafting a will, handling your divorce or making sure you’re […]
I’m asked all the time when I meet other professionals, “Who’s a good referral for you?” I usually answer, “Litigators are good – if you want to see if it’s worth suing, or you want to look into the people on the other side, and we do trademark and copyright work too. And anyone thinking […]
Investors in Madoff Securities and FTX were both warned, but by different sets of people. If it turns out to be true that without customer knowledge FTX took billions of dollars of customer account money to invest in a risky company owned by FTX’s CEO, this will truly compare to the Madoff scheme for audacious […]
In doing our investigations for assets in divorce, we often work with a forensic accountant. Sometimes they bring us into the case and sometimes it’s the reverse. When do you need one, the other, or both? If you have all the pertinent records and you don’t think there is much being hidden, the forensic accountant […]
Listen to me explain why putting people at ease is the best way to elicit information from them. I don’t have a badge or a subpoena, so the key is to be nice to them and be interested in what they do, think, and feel. Get the podcast chat on Ernie Sander’s “You Said What?” […]
You want to invest $3 million into a real estate project. Time is tight because it’s closing in 12 days. The developer (51 years old) seems to have a decent track record and takes credit for billions of dollars of projects, but this project doesn’t yet have zoning approval and the previous owner dumped the […]
Sadly, the answer is usually, “Longer than you’re willing to give me. You should have called me sooner.” We get inquiries from time to time from divorcing parties who are going to trial within the next month or even just a few weeks. They want to know whether we can look for offshore assets in […]
One indispensable part of due diligence is to check for regulatory sanctions. Was a company found by the SEC or FINRA to have misappropriated investor money? Put them in unsuitable investments? Lied on a filing to induce people to invest money under false pretenses? While we never pronounce “Invest” or “Don’t Invest,” “Hire” or “Don’t […]
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