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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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
A Memo to the File
Philip Becnel published an excerpt of Principles of Investigative Documentation in Pursuit Magazine. The article, called “A Memo to the File,” relates an experience when a client rudely chastised one of our investigators because he did not like the content of a report she wrote. The attorney’s behavior spurred Philip ...
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 ...
Principles of Investigative Documentation, Second Edition, Out Now!
Principles of Investigative Documentation, Second Edition, came out yesterday. A collaboration between Philip Becnel, Alexandra Becnel, and former-Dinolt-investigator-turned-attorney Scott Krischke, the book details how to document an investigation using what Philip originally coined as the “Five Principles of Investigative Documentation.” The authors reworked the Second Edition into a pseudo-memoir in Philip’s ...
Sound of Pursuit
Philip Becnel was interviewed on the Sound of Pursuit podcast about his latest book, co-authored with partner Alexandra Becnel, Principles of Investigative Documentation. Philip and host Hal Humphries discussed what we call the “Five Principles of Investigative Documentation” and how the act of writing reports makes one a more conscientious ...
ABC 20/20 Interview
Philip Becnel, our managing partner, was interviewed for an episode of ABC 20/20 titled, “The Confession?” The story documented the case of Christopher “Chris” Johnson, who in 1998 found his fiancée, Andrea “Andi” Cincotta, dead in their closet and decades later was charged with her murder. Dinolt Becnel & Wells Investigative ...
Alexandra Becnel featured in The Baltimore Banner
The legal field remains male-dominated, but that has been changing rapidly. Dinolt Becnel & Wells partner and part-time law student, Alexandra Becnel, was quoted in The Baltimore Banner. The article explores the surge in women in law and the reason for the increase, particularly in the context of the last ...
Investigator Openings
Dinolt Becnel & Wells Investigative Group LLC currently has two openings for Investigator positions. See details and ask to apply on our Careers page. ...
Eroding Atkins v. Virginia: How the Courts Are Allowing Persons with Intellectual Disabilities to Be Sentenced to Death.
Alexandra Becnel published an article in the University of Baltimore Law Review called, “Eroding Atkins v. Virginia: How the Courts Are Allowing Persons with Intellectual Disabilities to Be Sentenced to Death.” The article, about how the Supreme Court undermined what should have been a bright-line rule in Atkins because of ambiguity over how to define ...
He promised ‘Uber for private investigators.’ It was a scam.
Following a guilty plea for wire and securities fraud by Danny Boice, the founder of Trustify, the now-defunct “Uber for private investigators,” The Washington Post quoted our founder, Philip Becnel. ‘I knew it was a scam,’ said Philip Becnel, a partner at a D.C. private investigations firm and early Trustify critic. ‘I knew that there ...
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 ...
Philip Becnel featured on Newsy
Our Managing Partner, Philip Becnel, was featured on the Dream Jobs segment of the “The Why” on Newsy. During the interview, he talked about how he became a private investigator in D.C. and about different types of surveillance. ...
Philip Becnel quoted in The Washington Post
Managing Partner Philip Becnel was quoted in an article in The Washington Post called, “Stop enrollment fraud? D.C. school officials are often the ones committing it.” Residency fraud is when parents who live and pay taxes outside of the District enroll their children in D.C. schools. Investigative journalists for The Post examined ...