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Five Questions to Ask an Investigator Before Hiring

By Philip Segal on April 11, 2022
Posted in Ethics, Investigation, Legal Ethics, Legal issues

Where do you start in deciding which investigator to hire for a sensitive job?

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It should be a business of trust, just as it is when choosing someone to come up with an estate plan, to sue a former business partner, or to handle a complex tax situation. Despite the…

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.…

The Ethics of Handling Stolen Data from the Dark Web

By Philip Segal on February 4, 2022
Posted in Ethics, Internet, Investigation, Legal issues

We were asked recently about the ethics and legality of Dark Web searches, increasingly part of many investigations. I realized we had never posted on this issue and it’s about time.

Since a lot of what we use from the Dark Web is stolen information, can we make use of it?

In short, the answer…

Attorney Ethics 101: Fraud is Not Allowed

By Philip Segal on October 3, 2018
Posted in Celebrity, Ethics, Investigation, Legal Ethics, Legal issues

The non-legal press doesn’t usually get very deep into questions of legal ethics, but New York Magazine did a reasonable job of it in its hard-hitting piece this week on “The Bad, Good Lawyer” David Boies.

The article asks whether Boies has crossed an ethical line, principally in his work on behalf of Harvey Weinstein…

The Cosby Trial’s Lesson: Evidence is Good, Admissible Evidence is Better

By Philip Segal on June 19, 2017
Posted in Investigation, Legal issues

One lawyer we know has a stock answer when clients ask him how good their case is: “I don’t know. The courts are the most lawless place in America.”

What he means is that even though the law is supposed to foster predictability so that we will know how to act without breaking our society’s…

Where the Electronic Data Are Makes All the Difference

By Philip Segal on July 14, 2016
Posted in Internet, Investigation, Legal issues

It’s cloud illusions I recall

I really don’t know clouds at all

–Joni Mitchell

Today’s decision by the Second Circuit that Microsoft did not have to hand over data stored on its server in Ireland should remind us all that information isn’t just “out there.” As with printed information so it is sometimes with electronic…

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