Case Study- Negligent Security

A college student was returning from his home in Miami to his school in Orlando.  He stopped around midnight at an all-night franchise restaurant off I-95. While in the drive-thru lane, he was accosted by two young men, who tried to rob him, but shot and killed him...

Don’t Always Trust a Database Report

Have you ever declined a substantial injury case because you felt the adverse party did not have sufficient coverage? Perhaps you’re a busy trial lawyer who has delegated to your paralegal the task of running a proprietary database report (Accurint or Lexis/Nexis).  A...

Case study: Don’t Throw Away a $100,000 Case

The attorney represented a client who was seriously injured in a vehicle accident as the result of the defendant’s negligence. The coverage was limited.   However, knowing that the driver’s home address was in a northeast resort town, the attorney suspected the...

Do the “Due” (Diligence)

In these challenging financial times, we’ve received a lot of requests to “find the money.” Investments were made in promising enterprises that failed. Now the lawyers are called in to survey the damages and recover what they can. Often, there is nothing to find....

Due Diligence Case Studies

Credit Line A South American investor sought approval of a multi-million dollar credit line from a local financial institution. Assets listed included a manufacturing facility in the investor’s home country, and the client was seeking verification of the facility’s...

Confidence Through Information… for Business

Your business world is growing, both locally and globally. With each new opportunity comes an equal or greater potential for liability. There are external threats: competition, trade restrictions, energy costs, and regional instability. There are internal threats:...

Case Study: Workplace and Internal Investigations

Employee theft: From paperclips to intellectual property, businesses lose billions of dollars a year to unethical employees. The cause may be substance abuse or work dissatisfaction, but the result is the same: a strong hit to your bottom line. Internal investigations...