Documenting Crash Vehicles

According to the Department of Motor Vehicles, most drivers will be involved in at least one vehicle collision during their lifetime, and one in three people will be injured or killed. If you have ever been involved in a car accident you know that it can be alarming,...

Reviewing Discovery with the Criminal Client

If your client has been charged with a criminal violation he or she faces the real possibility of a long prison sentence or probation and loss of civil rights. The government or the state, with all of its resources, is ready to convict, and you need a trained criminal...

Documenting Event Scenes in a Criminal Case

We are all familiar with the yellow “Crime Scene Do Not Cross” tape. So familiar, in fact, that we may forget that the taped off “scene” is not actually a crime scene unless a crime is proven. Until then, it is an event scene. That is an important distinction, because...

Background Checks on a New Boyfriend

Although divorce doesn’t change the love parents feel for their children, divorce almost always changes their relationship. Parents who are used to putting their children to bed at night and waking them up in the morning may find themselves relegated to a mid-week...

What Finding Bin Laden Can Teach Attorneys

The greatest manhunt in history began to draw to a close when a field agent jotted down a license plate on a vehicle. That’s according to a New York Times article from May 3, 2011, a few days after a Navy SEAL commando team stormed a large secured residence in an...

Privacy Momentum Increases in Congress

Three major privacy bills were introduced in the US Senate yesterday.  After a very slow start to the year on privacy legislation, publicity over recent data breaches has energized legislators. Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Consumer...