Find Info Like a Pro: Mining the Internet's Publicly Available Resources for Investigative Research, Volume 1

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American Bar Association, 2010 - Law - 377 pages
This complete hands-on guide shares the secrets, shortcuts, and realities of conducting investigative and background research using the sources of publicly available information available on the Internet. Written for legal professionals, this comprehensive desk book lists, categorizes, and describes hundreds of free and fee-based Internet sites. The resources and techniques in this book are useful for investigations; depositions; locating missing witnesses, clients, or heirs; and trial preparation, among other research challenges facing legal professionals. In addition, a CD-ROM is included, which features clickable links to all of the sites contained in the book.
 

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Contents

Locating Historical Information
125
Finding and Backgrounding Expert Witnesses
129
Enhanced Collaboration
130
Develop a Working Knowledge of the Expertise by Reading Books and Articles
131
Review the Experts Writings
132
Online Periodical Indexes and Full Text Articles
133
Finding an ExpertFast
137
Search Free Expert Witness Directories
138

Proper Name Searching
19
Reverse Searching
21
Lessons Learned About Proper Names in Our Search for a Missing Subject
22
Tips for Name Searching
25
Finding Telephone Numbers and Addresses
27
Unpublished and Unlisted Phone Numbers
28
Discovering an Unpublished or Unlisted Phone Number Through a Domain Registry
29
Free WebBased Telephone Directory Searching by Name and Reverse Searching by Telephone Number or Address
30
Other Free Phone Directories Features
33
Using Google to Search by Name for a Listed Landline Phone Number or Address or to Reverse Search by a Listed Phone Number or Address
34
Cellular Phones and Facsimile Numbers
35
How to Use Search Engines or Google Groups to Find Cellular Telephone Numbers and Facsimile Numbers
36
Is It a Landline or a Cell Phone?
37
Free Web Site for Name Searching to Discover a Cellular Number
38
Pay Telephone Database
40
Pay Database Phone Directory
41
Using Pay Investigative Databases for Cell Phone and Landline Searches
42
Can You Obtain Records of Phone Calls?
45
Pretexting and Telephone Records
46
Using Search Engines Summarization Search Engines and Meta Search Sites for Investigative Research
49
A Search Engine Leads to a Settlement
50
Summarization Search Engines and Meta Search Sites
51
A Narrower Summarization Search Engine
54
Online Communities
57
Searching Online Communities
59
Using Online Community Postings for Investigative Research
60
Google Groups
61
Google Groups People Finding Search Strategy Tips
62
Finding Other Online Communities
64
Using Social Networking Sites for investigative Research
67
How Individuals Participate in the Social Networking Craze
69
Information People Post in Their Own Social Networking Profiles Comes into Play During Child Custody Proceedings
71
Using Googles Advanced Search Page to Limit Your Search to Facebook or any Web Site
87
Professional Networking Sites
89
Professional Networks for Lawyers
93
Martindale Hubbell and others Join the Professional Networking Trend
98
Blogs
100
Locating and Searching Blogs
101
Microblogging and Status Updating Sites
106
Using Genealogy Sites as Investigative Tools
111
A Random Google Search a Family Tree Result and a Social Networking Profile Find a Missing Person
112
Genealogy Library and Online Databases
114
State Genealogy Records Metasite
115
Searching through News and Magazine Articles to Find and Background People
117
News Metasites
121
Free Remote Access to News and Magazine Databases Via Public Library Web Sites
122
Setting Up Alerts
123
Free Expert Witness Directories Searchable by Keyword Name and Location
139
Free Expert Witness Directories Searchable by Category Only
143
Free Expert Witness Directories Searchable byCategory and Location
146
Use Online Directories to Find Trade or Professional Associations
148
Chewing Cum Expert
149
Online Directories of Associations
150
Specialized Association Directories
154
Other Health Profession Sites
155
Find the Experts Conference Presentations
158
Join an Online Community to Find Experts Postings or to Learn About the Topic
159
Using Google Groups to Find or Background an Expert
161
Review the Experts Own Web Site
163
Find Experts via Jury Verdict Reporter Databases
164
Pay Jury Verdict Reporter Databases
165
Find the Experts Deposition Testimony
167
Find Briefs and Cases That Refer to the Expert
169
Case Law
172
Locate Academic Experts Through University Sites
173
Use Pay Referral Sites
175
Using Expensive Pay Databases for Free
177
Free Public Library Virtual Reference Services
179
Pay Library Virtual Chat Reference Services
180
Finding Altered or Removed Web Pages
181
Using Archiveorgs Wayback Machine
182
Getting Web Pages from the Internet and Archiveorg Admitted into Evidence
193
Case Law Regarding Authenticating Web Page Evidence from Archiveorg
194
Educating the Judge about Internet Archive
197
Consumer Credit Reports and Credit Headers
199
Why Consumer Credit Reports Cant be Used to Find or Background a Person
200
No Permissible Business Reason Under FCRA 1681ba3
201
The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 FACTA
202
Credit Headers and the GrammLeachBliley Act CLBA
204
Can Lawyers Claim a CLBA Exception When Using Pay investigative Databases?
206
Operation Detect Pretext
210
Pretexting to Obtain General Information
211
Banks
212
Pay Investigative Databases
215
Where Pay Investigative Databases Get Their Data and How to Become a Subscriber
216
Relational Investigative Pay Databases
217
Reed ElsevierLexisNexis Pay Investigative Databases
222
LexisNexis Accurint Data Breach
229
NonGLBA Investigative Pay Databases
244
US Search
245
Appendices
251
Index
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