Find Info Like a Pro: Mining the Internet's Public Records for Investigative Research (Volume 2)

Find Info Like a Pro, Volume 2, will teach you how to conduct effective investigative and background research using public records available on the Internet. The companion volume to Find Info Like a Pro, Volume 1, this book will instruct legal professionals—and anyone else—to use hundreds of government and non-government Internet sites to uncover public records. This new volume applies the techniques from Volume 1 to free, public searches specifically. The resources and techniques in this book are useful for finding assets; advising clients about potential business partners; depositions; locating missing witnesses, clients, or heirs; and investigations of all kinds. A CD-ROM featuring clickable links to all of the sites contained in the book is included.

Find Info Like a Pro will assist anyone who wants to learn how to find free and low-cost public record Internet sites for investigative research The book will help you:

• Determine where to begin your search by using public record sites

• Decide when to use fee-based databases instead of (or in addition to) free sites

• Find addresses for service of process

• Unearth assets—real and personal property

• Discover political persuasions

• Obtain vital records, criminal records, liens, judgments, and UCCs

• Uncover background information about people (and companies) via docket, case law, and corporate record research

• Locate occupational licenses

• Understand the difference between credit reports and credit headers and how and when you can legally obtain each