Attorney Investigative, Research and Surveillance Services
Attorneys often need the following services. Each category shows some representative examples of the “white collar”, civil services provided.
INVESTIGATION
-Investigated the accounting procedures of a real estate developer’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and the false financial statements that he had generated --- I persuaded the CFO to admit to his employer that he had made material misstatements for two years. I have subsequently performed more than a dozen white collar fraud investigations for insurance litigation.
-Searched for hidden assets and undisclosed financial backers of an environmental testing firm; the case involved damages arising out of an industrial land purchase, after soil testing results were reportedly faked. The disclosed and undisclosed financial backers of the firm were insulated so well that a potential judgment would likely be unenforceable.
-I located a missing witness in Tampa when a law firm (my client) could not. This was done through tedious inspection of dozens of official records at the Courthouse.
RESEARCH
-Researched ten Florida sites with strong environmental significance for their potential sale to public agencies; this research included determinations of the sellers’ intentions, the likelihood of getting clear title, evaluations of the potential difficulties of closing on the sites, and estimates of the sites’ fair market values. The strongest determinant of eventual success proved to be estimation of the sellers’ willingness to sell.
-Determined that there was no statistical connection between the proximity of a USEPA “Superfund” site and the sales price and absorption rates of homes near this site, for an appeal to the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing --- this counter-intuitive result was not well received by my client, a major New Jersey home builder.
-Adapted Shawmut Bank software to create a financial and marketing model used to select branch bank sites for the Atlantic Bancorporation; this involved forecasting revenue and expenses for ten years, and discounting the resulting cash flows back to the present, for use in an internal rate of return analysis.
ANALYSIS
-After torrential rains in Jacksonville, and the threat of three lawsuits, I prepared a three-dimensional “time line” of all the repairs made to the multiple roofing structures of this neighborhood shopping center. Despite the involvement of three insurance companies and four law firms, the litigation was avoided.
-Provided analysis and research to defend against fifteen plaintiffs’ claims for economic damages; the plaintiffs included a personal injury attorney, the owner of an Italian restaurant, a swimming pool contractor, an insurance agency owner, a retail florist, an “auto parts” business and an auto accessories installer.
-I entered six hundred swimming pool building permits in Jacksonville into an Excel spreadsheet to refute this contractor’s claims for economic losses. I was able to show that the losses were based on the contractor selling the wrong type of swimming pool for the market.
STATISTICAL and FINANCIAL MODELING
-Built the first outside database model to study HAZMAT derailments for the Family Lines Rail System (the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad)
-Developed a custom asset – liability – management model for a federal credit union in Jacksonville
Developed a non-linear multiple regression model to allocate scarce rail cars to coal tipples on the L & N Railroad
SURVEILLANCE
This attorney service can be provided on an “as needed” basis
If your law firm is in need of investigative and/or research services, especially in the business crime and government fields, then I can be a valuable asset to secure the information that you need for a favorable outcome for your clients. Let me tell you directly how I can be of service to your firm. Simply fill in the form below and submit, I will contact you within 24 hrs and discuss your particular case and provide a proposal.
