Divorce Asset Searching – A Big Return on a Small Investment
Would you be willing to invest $4,000 dollars if there were a decent chance of getting $50,000 back within six months?
See if this is you or someone you know:
A professional woman who has been off work for a number of years taking…
Marketing Your Business: The Value Proposition and Why It Helps Investigators
There is no one-size-fits-all solution for marketing a business. If you have an unfamiliar product that requires a major amount of trust on the part of the first-time buyer, the approach should not be the same as persuading people to try a different…
What Makes a Good Investigator?
As with a good meal, a few simple ingredients, combined in the right way.
Good cooking consists of simple ingredients that nevertheless may take time to add to your meal. Garlic powder is easier to deploy than freshly peeled, mashed and diced…
Finding Assets Hidden by Doctors
Now and then, we get asked to do an asset search on a doctor and these can be challenging ones.
Doctors are afraid of getting sued. Some who are not even married or who have no inkling that divorce is on the horizon are often inclined to…
How Good Investigators Think About Search Engines
Not as magic bullets, but as helpful reference librarians.
Remember in middle school when you had to write a report about how many lobsters were caught in Maine each year? You went into the library and told the librarian your project.
She…
What You Won’t Read in Our Reports: “He Has No Criminal Record”
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…
Issue Spotting in Investigation
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…
Saving Money on Due Diligence: Look at the People First, Not Last
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…
Cheating, Grade Inflation, AI – What Smart Job Screeners Need to Do Next
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…
Can ChatGPT Help in an Investigation?
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…
