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
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How Good Investigators Think about Search Engines
Not as magic bullets, but as helpful reference librarians.
Courtesy: Arlington, VA Public Library
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
A Road Map for Discovery in Complex Divorce
When you need an asset search while contemplating or in the midst of a divorce, there are the usual kinds and the highly complex kinds.
It’s one thing to look at a guy with two houses, a small fleet of
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 costs
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
Valuing Private Companies in Divorce
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
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
Finding Banks to Subpoena Instead of Breaking the Law
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
The Epstein Appointment Book Story: This is What Due Diligence Looks Like
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
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