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Private Investigations Ethics Law & Legal Limits

I’ve been thinking a lot about ethics lately. A few articles have caught my attention. Pursuit Magazine ran a great piece by Kevin Macnish regarding ethical behavior, which describes, among other things how ethics and the law are not one in the same. Then I ran across an article the other day about an investigator […]

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Protecting Privilege and Confidentiality With a Private Investigator

One of the most frequently asked questions by potential clients is whether the information provided by a private investigator is privileged or confidential. The answer is ‘yes’, ‘no’ and ‘sometimes’ … Confused yet? In general, any information passed directly from the investigator to a non-attorney client, is not considered privileged and may be discoverable in […]

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What to ask a private investigator when finding someone

[A conversation with a potential client…] John Doe: Hi, I’m interested in finding someone. Me: OK, why do you want to find that person? JD: I wrote a pretty large check to that person a few years ago, and I want to find out whether      the check has been cashed. Me: OK, well, why don’t […]

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One of the double-edged-swords of private investigation is that we tend to be quite cautious and take very little at face value. We’ve heard the stories and investigated the shady characters; often we are more surprised when something appears to be on the up and up. In our lives, fraud seems to be commonplace. Turns […]

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Last night, I watched Mitt, the Netflix documentary covering the period from Mitt Romney’s 2006 family meeting about running for president to his November 2012 defeat in the general election. I’m not about to get all political on you here, but many people have argued that Romney was not elected because he was a robotic […]

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