Partner Philip Becnel was a panelist at a discussion on social media investigations at a conference of the Maryland Employment Lawyers Association. ...

Partner Philip Becnel taught a class, titled “Private Investigations and Public Privacy,” at the University of Maryland’s College Park campus. 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 private interests and ...

Partner Philip Becnel gave a talk to an in-service class of certified Criminal Justice Act (CJA) investigators at the D.C. Public Defender Service. CJA investigators perform criminal defense investigations on behalf of indigent criminal defendants and are paid through the court system. ...

Partner Philip Becnel gave a lecture on behavioral-analysis interviewing at the Maryland Investigators and Security Association in Annapolis, Maryland. ...

Partner Philip Becnel gave a lecture about how cognitive dissonance affects investigative interviews at the Private Investigators Association of Virginia in Fairfax, Virginia. ...

Partner Philip Becnel taught a seminar on behavioral-analysis interviewing at the National Museum of Crime & Punishment in Washington, D.C. Philip taught the museum’s guests (as well as some of Dinolt Becnel & Wells Investigative Group’s clients and colleagues) about recognizing behavioral symptoms of deception during investigative interviews. ...

Partner Philip Becnel gave a lecture about his book, Private Investigator Entry Level (02E), to a meeting of the Professional Investigators and Security Association (PISA). Philip talked to PISA’s Northern Virginia Chapter about the importance of educational standards for state-mandated private-investigator training in Virginia. ...

Partner Pierre-Alexandre Russell gave a talk, titled “Getting Gold from Your Private Investigator,” to the Boulder Chapter of the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar. ...

Partner Philip Becnel taught a two-hour seminar on behavioral-analysis interviewing to the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and the Equal Rights Center in Washington, D.C. These two organizations provide very important legal assistance to individuals in various criminal and civil matters in the District and elsewhere. Philip gave the ...

Partner Pierre-Alexandre Russell gave a lecture to a class of investigative interns for the Office of the Public Defender, Montgomery County, Maryland. Pierre’s talk was an introduction to criminal-defense investigations. ...

Partner Philip Becnel was a presenter at a panel discussion held in D.C. at the annual meeting of the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association. Philip’s lecture, titled “Convictions and Lies: Conducting Background Investigations on Your Clients,” discussed how plaintiff employment attorneys could better vet their clients prior to initiating costly ...

Partners Brendan Wells and Philip Becnel gave a lecture in Baltimore to the National Alliance of Sentencing and Mitigation Specialists at the University of Maryland, School of Social Work. During the lecture, titled “Defense Investigation: The Work of the Investigator on the Team,” Brendan and Philip discussed the use of ...