Your client wants to help. They always do.
They've already Googled the opposing party, scrolled through social media, driven past the address, asked around through mutual contacts, and assembled a folder of screenshots they're convinced will change everything.
Most law firms treat investigative costs as a line item expense. They budget for it reluctantly, approve it case by case, and measure it against what it cost rather than what it produced.
The firms that have restructured their relationship with outside investigators — particularly around intake — have found something d
There is a version of private investigation that still operates the way it did in 1987.
A phone call comes in. Someone writes something on a notepad. A file folder gets created. An investigator drives somewhere, takes some photographs, types up a report on a word processor, and mails it or faxes it to the client. The c
It's one of the most common questions attorneys ask when they first engage a licensed investigator:
"My client believes the opposing party is hiding assets. What can you actually find?"
Most criminal defense attorneys know what a Kovel agreement is. Far fewer use one consistently — and that gap is costing their clients.
If you're bringing outside investigators, forensic accountants, or technical experts into your cases without a Kovel structure in place, the work product those professionals produce is
The pressure on Special Investigations Units has never been higher.
Fraud losses continue to climb. Claim volumes aren't slowing down. Internal SIU staffing is flat or shrinking at most carriers. And the regulatory environment around how investigations are conducted — what's documented, how it's documented, and how qui
Workers' compensation fraud costs Texas insurers hundreds of millions of dollars every year. For Special Investigations Unit (SIU) directors tasked with controlling those losses, the difference between a denied claim and a paid one often comes down to a single question: did you have the right investigator in the field