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Investigative/Due Diligence Research Strategies: Websites, Social Media, and Databases


Total Credits: 3 including 2.0 General, 1.0 Ethics

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Faculty:
Carole Levitt |  Mark Rosch
Duration:
3 Hours 03 Minutes
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Audio and Video
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Description

Learn How to Search Like a Private Investigator
Discover the key differences between public records, “publicly available” information, and “proprietary” information
Glean personal information from search engines and blogs
Learntouse inexpensive data broker databases to create dossiers about your subjects
Develop more effective Internet investigative search strategies
Find out how you can uncover driver’s licenseor vehicle records
Mine the Web for missing people
Dig up death records, birthdays, and Social Security Numbers
Extract background information from dockets
Unearth bankruptcies
Find Out How to Access Expensive Databases...for Free...to Find:
Factual information
Background information
Full-text newspaper an magazine articles
Press releases
Master Quick and Easy Methods to Retrieve Background Information From Public Recordand Publicly Available Sites From:
Online telephone/address directories to obtaininformation for service of process, etc.
Public record portals
Criminal records and sex offender registries
S.E.C. filings
Expert witness directories
Discover How to Use SocialMedia Sites For Investigative Researchand Evidence...Ethically
Ethics: Learn to avoid ethical pitfalls when searching for profiles
Find out “secret” ways to find someone’s social media profile
Successfully navigate through many social media sites to: obtain useful background/investigative information about parties, lawyers, judges, experts, jurors, and current & potential client so find information to attack a party or witness’s credibility uncover fraud seek out the smoking gun
Explore whether you can subpoena social media sites to obtain profiles Discover how to preserve the information you find

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