Lawyers needn’t turn clients away because there aren’t enough hours in the day to investigate and represent every case to the highest quality. The most efficient and successful law firms hire highly skilled private investigators as part of the litigation team.
Private investigators offer a cost-effective solution to building stronger cases, serving more clients, and coming into court, mediation or arbitration fully prepared.
Lawyers who work with private investigators get better results in less
What can a PI do for you and your client?
- Locate people. Looking for missing eyewitnesses? Is someone doing their best to dodge being served legal papers? Having trouble locating the expert you need to build a strong case for your client? Don’t waste your time tracking them down when you could contract a PI to do it for you.
- Investigate your client. Be one step ahead of your opponent and know everything there is to know about your client before they do. Know what they know, know what they don’t know, have all of your bases covered and get a professional to do it for you.
- Investigate everyone else. This means your client’s opponent and their attorney. This means every witness on your client’s side, and on the side of the opponent. This means piecing together the story behind each character involved, from the details of their background to their patterns and behaviors. This is invaluable information that takes time and tact to piece together that you don’t have. Work with a PI.
- Enforce the Verdict. Judgment is meaningless if it cannot be enforced, and there are plenty of loopholes for opponents to exploit to avoid the full force of justice, particularly when it comes to assets. Oftentimes, an opponent will try to misrepresent who owns and controls their assets by transferring them into a family member, a friend, or another third party. A PI can track down assets and find attempts at
misrepresentation of ownership, whether domestic or offshore. If they did transfer assets, when this happens it could befraudulent conveyance. A PI can get to the bottom of this. - Reviewing the Police Investigation. A PI with a history working in law enforcement knows how to review police reports, identify gaps and errors, and conduct an investigation on top of the initial investigation. A good PI knows a good police investigation – and a bad police investigation – when she sees one. Have a PI review the police reports, conduct her own investigation, and reconstruct what really happened.
These are just a few things a PI can do to save you time and money, and to give your clients the best representation possible. To learn more about what a PI can do for your law practice, visit Mignolet Business Research Consultants at www.mignolet.com.