Personal Injury, Family Law

How Your Company Can Benefit From an Asset Search

by Edward Amaral on 5/14/2013

How Your Business or Company Can Benefit From an Asset Search It has become increasingly important over the past few years for businesses and companies to collect debts that are owed to them. The economy has been in poor...more

Bank Account Searches: Are They Permissble?

by Edward Amaral on 4/18/2013

Lawyers and other professionals contact our office every day and ask whether it is permissible for an asset search company or private investigator to conduct bank, stock, bond or mutual fund account searches on a subject. The...more

Asset Searches and the Collection of Debt

by Edward Amaral on 4/12/2013

It has become increasingly important for both businesses and individuals to receive payments that are due to them. Debtors are often delinquent in paying for goods, services or other financial obligations. When a debtor...more

Choosing the Right Asset Search Company

by Edward Amaral on 4/10/2013

When looking to conduct an asset search, it is important to carefully choose a qualified asset search company to assist you. The internet has become second nature to the majority, making it simple for anyone to create a...more

Education Update, No. 2 - April 2013: Keeping Your Students Safe From Child Abductions

by Celia Joseph | Fisher & Phillips LLP on 4/3/2013

A loud, beeping Amber Alert and accompanying visual banner filled the homes and screens of area television viewers on the evening of January 14, 2013, announcing the abduction of a five-year-old student from a Philadelphia...more

Why and When to Conduct an Asset Search

by Edward Amaral on 4/3/2013

Asset Search services are one of those areas that most people know little about until they need them. For years personal injury attorneys have conducted asset searches to satisfy their due diligence in determining the nature...more

The Skinny on Bank Account Searches and Why Choosing the Right Asset Search Firm is so Important

by Edward Amaral on 4/1/2013

Short Answer: As an attorney who has been conducting asset searches for other attorneys for over 20 years, I am repeatedly contacted or approached by lawyers and other professionals and asked whether it is permissible for a...more

Asset Search Due Diligence

by Edward Amaral on 3/29/2013

“CYA” or otherwise referred to as, cover your ass, is my recommendation to those of you who are employed in the personal injury, collections, divorce or corporate due diligence professions. For to satisfy ones due diligence...more

Why It Is Critical To Conduct Asset Searches Aside From Bank Account Searches

by Edward Amaral on 3/27/2013

On November 12, 1999, President Clinton signed the “Financial Services Modernization Act” into law, which made conducting bank account searches by asset search companies impermissible and a federal crime as you could no...more

A Busy Day of Civil Arguments at the Illinois Supreme Court

by Kirk Jenkins | Sedgwick LLP on 3/19/2013

Tomorrow will be a busy day for the Illinois Supreme Court's civil docket, with five cases being argued, beginning at 9:00 a.m. They are...more

Parents Don’t Love You Enough? Time To Sue

by Aaron Kase | Lawyers.com on 3/4/2013

Not happy about your childhood? One Brooklyn man has come up with a novel solution: Sue your parents. Bernard Bey, 32, has filed a lawsuit seeking $200,000 in damages against his parents for not loving him enough as a...more

When Should I Call a Lawyer?

by Crider Law PC on 3/4/2013

You don’t need a lawyer for everything, but there are a few times in life when hiring a lawyer is a necessity....more

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

by Matthew Thompson on 2/26/2013

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc. "After this, therefore because of this..."...more

Suit against Psychologist for Opining on supervised Visit

by Albertina Webb | Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer P.A. on 2/22/2013

Recently, in Washington D.C. a 15 month old boy was murdered by his own father by being drowned in a bathtub. The mother had applied for and was granted supervised parenting time. The father was evaluated. The psychologist,...more

Res Judicata - latin terms explained in English

by Matthew Thompson on 2/5/2013

How to say Res Judicata and why it matters to you....more

Hiring a Private Eye.

by Matthew Thompson on 1/26/2013

How and when to hire a PI. What to give them when you do...more

Red Flag Representation

by Matthew Thompson on 1/23/2013

How to spot a potentially difficult client....more

10 Annoying Client Traits

by Matthew Thompson on 1/15/2013

On the heels of 10 annoying things attorneys do comes 10 annoyances that clients commit....more

10 Annoying Attorney Traits

by Matthew Thompson on 1/11/2013

10 bad habits of attorneys...more

Illinois Supreme Court Will Hear Five Civil Cases During January Term

by Kirk Jenkins | Sedgwick LLP on 1/5/2013

The Illinois Supreme Court has posted its docket for the impending January term, and the Court will hear argument in five civil cases. ...more

Illinois Supreme Court Declines to Decide Absolute Immunity Issue in Cooney

by Kirk Jenkins | Sedgwick LLP on 12/31/2012

Cooney v. Rossiter presented two questions: (1) was the plaintiffs' individual action barred by the dismissal of an earlier putative class action; and (2) is a court-appointed psychological evaluator in a child custody...more