Partner Philip Becnel was a speaker at the 2013 annual meeting of the Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys. The theme of their Continuing Legal Education series was “Pitfalls of Criminal Defense: from Beginning to End,” and Philip’s talk was about investigations involving social media. ...

Partner Philip Becnel published Introduction to Conducting Private Investigations, the second edition to his first book published in 2010, Private Investigator Entry Level (02E). His latest book has a more national focus than its predecessor, with a summary of private investigator licensing laws throughout the United States. Philip also updated ...

Partner Philip Becnel was quoted as an expert in an article on Yahoo! Sports The Post Game called, “Who Abducted Cal Ripken’s Mom? The Story Behind The Unsolved Abduction Mystery.” ...

Investigator Kenneth Hallenbeck helped successfully locate a missing 15-year-old girl. Our firm worked on this case pro bono for the Center for Search & Investigations (CFSI), which credited our firm for the investigation on their Facebook page. ...

Dinolt Becnel & Wells Investigative Group produced a series of three videos titled “Using Private Investigators in Your Legal Practice.” All of the videos are available on the firm’s YouTube page. ...

Partner Philip Becnel was a panelist for the National Young Leaders Conference (NYLC) Judicial Panel on the Death Penalty. NYLC is a series of conferences organized by the Congressional Youth Leadership Council and brings prominent young scholars from throughout the world together to debate serious issues. Philip addressed over 250 ...

Case Manager Philip Fornaci was featured on Chanel 8 News News Talk regarding a report about racial disparities in arrests released by the D.C. Prisoners’ Project of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, where he was the Director for over a decade. ...

Case Manager Philip Fornaci was interviewed on German television station Deutsche Welle in a news story titled “Trayvon verdict hits nerve in DC.” ...

Partner Philip Becnel was quoted as an expert in an article in the Federal Times called “CBP secret deal to bury investigator’s past misconduct questioned.” The article details how U.S. Customs and Border Protection hid serious allegations against a former special agent, thereby allowing him to take a job as ...

Partner Philip Becnel published an article with Time Magazine called “How Edward Snowden Snuck Through.” The article, published on the magazine’s Battleland blog, is about flaws in the background investigations conducted for government security clearances. ...

Partner Philip Becnel was featured in an article in the Mason Spirit called, “Phil Becnel: G Is for Gumshoe.” Mason Spirit is the biannual magazine published by George Mason University (GMU), where Philip got his bachelor’s degree in anthropology in 1999. ...

Partner Philip Becnel was quoted in an article in the Akron Beacon Journal called “Experts debate terror, survival and Stockholm syndrome in Cleveland kidnappings.” ...

Partner Philip Becnel was quoted in an article in TechNewsDaily called “How Little Bits of Data Threaten Your Identity.” ...

Partner Philip Becnel did an interview for GeoWorld Magazine. The interview, titled “They’re Watching You,” is about the interplay between the use of geolocation data in investigative surveillance, privacy and the law. ...

Partner Philip Becnel published an article in PI Magazine called, “Myth: Digital Media Do Not Require Additional Documentation.” In the article, which was a modified excerpt from his book Principles of Investigative Documentation, Philip argues “… no technological innovation has supplanted the need for fundamental documentation practices that have evolved ...