After years in business, one of my biggest marketing challenges is still explaining to potential clients why an investigator can’t just use a few mysterious databases and “deep Googling,” as one hopeful person described it, and produce an answer in an hour or two. Someone’s well-hidden assets? The eight-month job in 1998 that ended badly […]
We were asked recently about the ethics and legality of Dark Web searches, increasingly part of many investigations. I realized we had never posted on this issue and it’s about time. Since a lot of what we use from the Dark Web is stolen information, can we make use of it? In short, the answer […]
Investigators get information in exchange for money, so why in the world would an investigator want to tell people how to get that information for free? As I wrote last week on our companion blog, The Divorce Asset Hunter in an article called Giving it Away is Great for Business, it’s not a matter of […]
When was the last time you gave something away from your professional practice? I’m not talking about pens, calendars or tote bags. When did you give away knowledge about what you do? Not, “Look at the results we get,” but rather, “Here’s how we do it.” I’ve done a lot of speaking over the years, […]
It’s one of the tried and true ways investigators have to explain their work. “Connecting the dots.” What we usually mean is that in a sea of data, we can find the relevant material and put it in the right context by showing how it relates to other facts. You sometimes end up with a […]
As Bitcoin surges in value once again, divorcing spouses may be tempted to convert cash into electronic currency. Finding it can be harder than finding cash, but if you do find it, you can make a comparatively fast case that your spouse is undercounting assets. Faster cases cut down on legal fees, and what client […]
I was puzzled this week at the reaction to a bomb of a story by the Wall Street Journal. The paper’s rightfully cautious lawyers allowed it to go to press and declare that 131 federal judges had broken the law by hearing cases in which they or their families had a direct financial interest. Even […]
The longer you investigate people, the more bad behavior you will be able to talk about. But there is little I have encountered in my work that is more sickening than deed fraud – the subject of a recent case we had. A form of identity theft that allows the crooks to take not just […]
Any litigator tasking interviews of potential witnesses needs to know about the no-contact rule (ABA Model Rule 4.2)[1], which forbids talking to represented people on the other side of a case. This also goes for most current employees of the other side — certainly any employee senior enough to make critical decisions or who was […]
Philip Segal’s lengthy interview about asset searching with divorce journalist Ilyssa Panitz is here: https://medium.com/authority-magazine/financial-investigator-philip-segal-5-things-you-need-to-know-to-survive-and-thrive-during-and-6ab7f6cbf4b6 It appeared on line in Authority Magazine.
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