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Legal Times ranked us the Best Private Investigations Provider of 2015!
We’re so excited to announce that Dinolt Becnel & Wells Investigative Group LLC has again been named the “Best Private Investigations Provider” of 2015 by the Legal Times! We are by any measure a small company in a very crowded market, so the fact that we have been able to ...
Pro-investigator tip: consider filing “copycat” FOIA requests
The Freedom of Information Act request process can be frustrating and expensive, and backlogs have been an increasing problem. By the government’s own estimate, there were 159,741 requests in backlog in 2014 compared to 95,524 in 2013. For private investigators, attorneys, journalists and the general public, the short term need ...
How to research your relatives’ military history
About a year ago, a nonprofit group turned to us for help finding family members of deceased veterans who came into contact with Agent Orange, a highly toxic herbicide used during the Vietnam War. In these sorts of cases, investigative databases only help so much because some veterans died decades ...
Private Investigator selflessly fought for transparency
Tonight, at a funeral home in Michigan, family, friends and colleagues of journalist and private investigator Pat Clawson will pay their respects to the 60-year-old who died last week. A few years back, Pat called me when I was working as a reporter. He urged me – to put it mildly ...