Partner Philip Becnel was featured in the “Value Added” column of the The Washington Post about his pioneering work vetting clients clients in employment litigation cases. The column, which refers to Philip as “the Bogart of body language,” outlines how he cut his teeth as a D.C. private investigator and ...

Partner Philip Becnel was interviewed on Find Our Missing to discuss the case of Lester Jones, a man who mysteriously went missing in Mississippi. Jones’ family later received ransom demands from possible kidnappers in Mexico City. Philip was interviewed as a missing persons expert to discuss theories of Jones disappearance. ...

Partner Philip Becnel was was featured again on The American Private Investigator podcast. He talked about his latest book, Principles of Investigative Documentation, outlining how to document an investigation using the Five Principles of Investigative Documentation. ...

Partner Philip Becnel was interviewed for an article by the The Washington Times about vetting potentially fraudulent grantee organizations. ...

Partner Philip Becnel was again interviewed on Channel 8 News to comment about the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of United States v. Antoine Jones, a case that addressed whether law enforcement requires a warrant before attaching a GPS tracking device to a suspect’s vehicle. ...

Partner Philip Becnel was interviewed about how private investigators use social media in internal employment investigations on Channel 8 News’ Capital Insider. A recording of the show may be found here. ...

Partner Philip Becnel published his second book, Principles of Investigative Documentation. In the book, Philip details how to document an investigation from start to finish using what he calls the Five Principles of Investigative Documentation. The book’s coauthor, Scott Krischke, is a former private investigator with Dinolt Becnel & Wells ...

Partner Philip Becnel was elected president of the Private Investigators Association of Virginia, a venerable association created in 1982 to promote ethical standards for private investigators and increase consumer awareness of the profession. ...

Partner Philip Becnel gave a lecture about social media investigations at the Maryland State Bar Association’s 2011 Employment Law Institute . ...

Partner Philip Becnel published an article, called “Chasing Ghosts,” with Pursuit Magazine, a trade journal and online community for the private investigations industry. The article is about locating the the toughest-to-find people on the planet, either for service of process or to interview them. ...

Partner Philip Becnel lectured at George Mason University (GMU) in a presentation sponsored by the American Criminal Justice Association and National Criminal Justice Honor Society. Philip introduced some of GMU’s Criminology, Law and Society majors to the field of private investigation. ...

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. ...