All Posts Tagged With: "litigation"

Service of Process through Twitter

In another process serving first, BREIN, a Dutch anti-piracy coalition similar to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), has served the owners of Pirate Bay via their Twitter and Facebook accounts alleging the founders are facilitating, on an unprecedented scale, the illegal sharing of copyright protected files, intellectual property and media.
Pirate Bay is the [...]

11Nov2009 | Scott Harrell | 0 comments | Continued

Fraudulent Service of Process Continues to Plague New York

Video of Council Member Garodnick Announcing Reform of Fraudulent Process Service on September 3, 2009. Garidnick wants legislation requiring New York process servers and agencies to have a surety bond, or insurance in order to be licensed due to rampant and fraudulent default judgments.
As a specific case in point, a White Plains, NY woman [...]

23Oct2009 | Stephanie Mitchell | 0 comments | Continued

Defending the Defender: Inadequate and Negligent Security Investigations

Our agency was employed by an attorney that represented a security guard company in a negligence lawsuit. The facts of the case involved a security company that had the contract at a college to provide 24-hour on-site armed security. During registration, a security guard was sitting in a room assisting with taking money [...]

8Sep2009 | Kelly Riddle | 1 comment | Continued

September Judicial Spotlight

The Department of Justice’s indictments of eleven people a few weeks age is being recognized as the largest case of identity theft in the country. Nearly 41 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen by an international ring of identity theft thieves and hackers. They managed to hack into the computer networks of [...]

1Sep2008 | Stephanie Mitchell | 0 comments | Continued

July Litigation Spotlight

Another story about a couple of private investigators in a lot of trouble… and more bad press for us.
Now we all know that a huge part of our jobs is to gather intelligence and information on subjects. Most importantly the information we gather is generally very personal and confidential. Information is knowledge and with that [...]

1Jul2008 | Stephanie Mitchell | 0 comments | Continued

March Litigation Spotlight

On Sunday, December 16, 2007 the Pacific Northwest Association of Investigators (PNAI) released a statement clarifying the recent pretexting indictments of ten workers at BNT Investigations of Belfair, Washington.

1Mar2008 | Stephanie Mitchell | 0 comments | Continued