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Who Is NOT a Good Referral for Our Firm? Lawbreakers!

By Philip Segal on November 29, 2022
Posted in Banking and Investments, Ethics, Finances

I’m asked all the time when I meet other professionals, “Who’s a good referral for you?”

I usually answer, “Litigators are good – if you want to see if it’s worth suing, or you want to look into the people on the other side, and we do trademark and copyright work too.

And anyone thinking…

FTX Warnings vs Madoff Warnings: What was the Difference?

By Philip Segal on November 16, 2022
Posted in Due Diligence, Finances, Uncommon

Investors in Madoff Securities and FTX were both warned, but by different sets of people.

If it turns out to be true that without customer knowledge FTX took billions of dollars of customer account money to invest in a risky company owned by FTX’s CEO, this will truly compare to the Madoff scheme for audacious…

The New Risk for Banks Operating in Canada

By Philip Segal on February 23, 2022
Posted in Banking and Investments, Legal issues

Due diligence is about trying to look around corners. Not only do you look backward at a person’s history, but you also want to try to anticipate potential problems for the client if they hire Mr. X. or go into business in Country Y.

Country Y for the purposes of this blog today is Canada.…

Public Record Sources for Free – What Any Investigator Can (but May Not) Tell You

By Philip Segal on January 26, 2022
Posted in Due Diligence, Finances, Investigation, Property, Real Estate

Investigators get information in exchange for money, so why in the world would an investigator want to tell people how to get that information for free?

As I wrote last week on our companion blog, The Divorce Asset Hunter in an article called Giving it Away is Great for Business, it’s not a matter…

Asset Searches and Company Names: Tips on Tracking and Naming Companies

By Philip Segal on May 31, 2021
Posted in Finances, Investigation, Privacy

Some people just like privacy, but others form companies with a view to concealing any link between that company and themselves. If you are hiding assets from creditors, that’s a plus (for you, not the creditors).

Picking a company name can be more difficult than many think. A lot of the obvious company names are…

The Small Business Landlord-Tenant Wars Have Begun

By Philip Segal on May 26, 2020
Posted in Asset Searches, Finances, Small Business

The big guys have been going bankrupt, but the real carnage is yet to come:. Among America’s small businesses. Potential creditors need to get organized for the fight which appears to have been kicked off in New York this month with a fascinating case.

We have seen the big names going down including JC Penney,…

Tracking Kim’s Mercedes: It’s All About What’s Not There

By Philip Segal on July 18, 2019
Posted in Finances, Investigation, Uncommon

Not for the first time, the most compelling piece of information in an investigation is what isn’t there.

We’ve written often before about the failure of databases and artificial intelligence to knit together output from various databases and I discussed the idea of what isn’t there in my book, The Art of Fact Investigation.…

Atlanta Paper Exposes Widespread Violation of Federal Law by Private Investigators and the Lawyers That Enable Them

By Philip Segal on October 12, 2018
Posted in Banking and Investments, Ethics, Investigation

Great work by the Atlanta Journal Constitution on an issue that’s bugged me for years: the brazen violation of federal law by investigators and the lawyers who hire them.

At issue is the Gramm Leach Bliley Act, meant to protect the confidentiality of banking records. You are not allowed to pretend to be someone…

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