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Philip Becnel was interviewed on a second episode of Employee to Lawyer, a podcast about law in the workplace presented by NELA-Illinois, which is the Illinois Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association, a non-profit collection of attorneys who champion workplace rights. The podcast’s hosts asked Philip how he got ...
Criminal Defense and Advocacy Clinic
Philip Becnel gave a lecture about the fundamentals of investigating to students of the Criminal Defense and Advocacy Clinic at The University of Baltimore School of Law. ...
Private Investigators Association of Idaho
Philip Becnel gave a talk to the Private Investigators Association of Idaho titled, “Why we document and how.” The talk focused on Philip and Alexandra Becnel’s book, Principles of Investigative Documentation. He talked about how documentation is a demonstration of caring about clients and introduced some legal principles that are ...
Justice 4 All
Philip Becnel taught a class about documenting investigations to lawyers and investigators at the Maryland Office of the Public Defender “Justice 4 All” 2024 Annual Conference. ...
Criminal Defense and Advocacy Clinic
Philip Becnel gave a lecture to the students of the Criminal Defense and Advocacy Clinic at The University of Baltimore School of Law. Philip’s lecture focused on documenting real-world investigations, as detailed in his and Alexandra Becnel’s latest book, Principles of Investigative Documentation. ...
Global Ethics and Compliance
Philip Becnel gave a presentation to the investigators and other members of the Global Ethics and Compliance Division of RTX, a multinational aerospace and defense conglomerate. Philip’s presentation touched on the benefits of theory-directed investigation, methods to distinguish between facts and factual inferences, as well as some of the fundamentals ...
Litigating for resources, even in hostile places.
Alexandra Becnel presented to Advancing Real Change, Inc.’s “Fall Training,” a three-day virtual training for attorneys, mitigation specialists, paralegals, and records collection specialists working in capital defense and juvenile LWOP (life without parole) cases. ...
Alexandra Becnel presents to the Michigan State Appellate Defender Office
Private investigator and mitigation specialist Alexandra Becnel presented a training via Zoom to the Michigan State Appellate Defender Office (SADO) in Detroit, Michigan. The attorneys, investigators, and mitigation specialists at SADO work tirelessly on behalf of people sentenced as juveniles to die in prison. The U.S. Supreme Court, in Miller ...
Partner Philip Becnel at Nevada’s CALI Conference
Partner Philip Becnel gave two lectures about the proper way to document a private investigation to members of the California Association of Licensed Investigators at their annual conference in Reno, Nevada. Philip’s lectures were named after one of his books, Principles of Investigative Documentation. ...
Philip Becnel at Woodrow Wilson High School
Partner Philip Becnel talked at a career fair held at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C. ...
Philip Becnel Lecture at the University of Maryland
Partner Philip Becnel gave a talk at the University of Maryland, where he is a periodic guest lecturer at a course on privacy. Philip talked to students of the Honors College about some of the legal and moral pitfalls inherent in an industry that conducts investigations for a myriad of ...
Philip Becnel Speaks at Washington Metropolitan Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
Partner Philip Becnel was a speaker at a conference for the Washington Metropolitan Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. In the talk, which was titled, “How Not to Conduct an Internal Investigation: A Case Study,” Philip gave an example of a case where he testified as an expert ...
Philip Fornaci Panelist at American Bar Association
Case Manager Philip Fornaci was a panelist at a conference for the American Bar Association. During the panel, which was titled, “Proliferation of Criminal Records on the Internet,” Philip drew on his decade-plus of experience as Director of the D.C. Prisoners’ Project of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights ...
Philip Becnel Speaks at the 2013 Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys
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. ...
Philip Becnel Panelist for the National Young Leaders Conference (NYLC) Judicial Panel
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 ...