Contract for services and retainer agreements: establishing ground rules for investigators and clients Read More

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It's easy to create a marketing plan for your private investigation business—in five simple steps. Read More

Investigators are experts in following a person's virtual or paper trail. But what if there isn't one? Read More

The importance of properly transporting a defendant once detained should never be underestimated. For simplicity I have included my company’s policy for transporting defendants.  I believe it does a more than adequate job describing standard transportation policy in regard to Read More

Secretly Installed Software on Rented Computers Collected Information, Took Pictures of Consumers in Their Homes, Tracked Consumers’ Locations Seven rent-to-own companies and a software design firm have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they spied on Read More

“Wanted posters” are outstanding tools used to develop information and to create leverage with the defendant’s family.  The leverage comes from the embarrassment of having a family member see the defendant all over his own neighborhood and have to suffer the indignity of havi Read More

Every employment interview should follow some sort of structure to ensure consistency.  This should be applied to the length of the interview, questions asked of every applicant and job expectations discussed as well as the method used to close the interview. Uniformity in the Read More