Philip Segal

Philip Segal is a New York attorney and the founder of Charles Griffin Intelligence, a New York firm specializing in fact investigation for lawyers. He spent 19 years as a journalist with The International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist Group and NBC News, among others. After earning a degree at Yale Law School, he completed his legal studies at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law where he is currently Adjunct Professor teaching Fact Investigation. His online CLE course "The Fundamentals of Fact Finding" is available here.

Philip brings to fact investigation the combined skills of an international financial journalist with those of a careful, details-obsessed attorney who not only gathers facts, but does it in a way that will stand up to the closest scrutiny as to ethics as well as admissibility of evidence.

Following his journalism career and law school, Philip worked as a case manager for the James Mintz Group in New York and as North American Partner and General Counsel for GPW, a British business-intelligence firm. He founded Charles Griffin Intelligence (named after his son) in 2009.

Professional Associations

• New York City Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association
• Overseas Press Club of America
• Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club (Life Member and Past President)

Education

• Columbia University, BA Economic Geography, 1984
• Yale Law School, MSL, 2004
• Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, JD, 2006

Clips from Philip's recent CLE course - Fundamentals of Fact Finding

Why Are Google Searches Never Enough?

What are the Ethical Issues with Pretexting? 

Maria Matasar-Padilla

Maria Matasar-Padilla is a case manager at Charles Griffin. She is a graduate of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Prior to law school she was a journalist. For almost a decade, she worked on a number of award-winning investigative news specials and educational documentaries, first for Peter Jennings Productions at ABC News and then with Jennings' The Documentary Group. Maria earned a doctorate from the Yale School of Drama and an undergraduate degree from Harvard College. She is a native Spanish speaker.