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“ Cybersleuthing ”

“ Cybersleuthing ”. Why?. Persons: Name and/or Address for Service of Process Assets to enforce a judgment Information on clients, opposing parties, witnesses, experts Criminal backgrounds Civil cases General information. Businesses. Owner identities Agent for service

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“ Cybersleuthing ”

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  1. “Cybersleuthing”

  2. Why? • Persons: • Name and/or Address for Service of Process • Assets to enforce a judgment • Information on clients, opposing parties, witnesses, experts • Criminal backgrounds • Civil cases • General information

  3. Businesses • Owner identities • Agent for service • Financial stability/assets

  4. Westlaw/WestlawNext WestlawNext

  5. Westlaw Classic • View Westlaw Directory

  6. Internet Sites • Government Sites: • Pacer.gov • State courts • Agency Sites • EDGAR (SEC) <http://www.sec.gov/> • Sec’y of State, CA< http://www.sos.ca.gov/> • http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/ • Various Licensing Agencies (Medical, Legal, Contractor etc.

  7. http://www.pacer.gov/ • Need to register • Free • May need credit card • Information from all the federal courts • Dockets • Documents • Case name search • Let’s Search for Barry Bonds

  8. Real Estate Assessor’s Offices • Search Systems (http://www.searchsystems.net) • Portico http://indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/assessors.html • BRB Publications (http://brbpublications.com/freeresources/pubrecsitesStates.aspx) • SCCounty: https://www.sccassessor.org

  9. Real estate values • http://www.zillow.com/ • http://www.realestate.com

  10. Locating Other Personal Property • www.unclaimed.org • www.Missingmoney.com • http://www.uspto.gov/ (Patents, trademarks)

  11. Personal InformationGeneral Sites • Google (also images, groups, blogs) • Yahoo • Bing • Dogpile(http://www.dogpile.com/ • Yippy (http://www.yippy.com/) • DuckDuckGo (https://duckduckgo.com/)

  12. Investigating People • Make sure they are still alive! • Social Security Death Index (google) or ancestry.com; • http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/ssdi/ • 123People.com; • www.birthdatabase.com • www.whitepages.com Telephone Number, address, reverse directory, and map to address • www.zabasearch.com Address & Map

  13. Business Information • California: • http://kepler.sos.ca.gov • Miscellaneous licensing sites • Federal • EDGAR (SEC) <http://www.sec.gov/>

  14. BRB Publications—Paid Resources • http://www.brbpublications.com/prs/searchfirms.aspx

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