Assess opponents' assets while deciding whether to sue them

A litigator's decision whether to file a lawsuit often rests on a business judgment that requires facts: Assuming the case has merit, does the potential defendant have enough financial resources to make it worth pursuing?

We check the depth of individual and corporate pockets quickly and efficiently.

We gather evidence, for example, to pierce corporate veils. In the case of an office-building tenant that ceased operation and abandoned its leasehold, we built a case on government filings and a former employee's testimony showing that the tenant's assets had been fraudulently conveyed.

Once litigation commences, we can maintain up-to-date intelligence on an opponent's assets, which can have an impact on settlement strategy. We check, for example, on whether assets have been passed to related entities.

In complex cases with multiple potential defendants, we may be asked to differentiate the relatively rich from the relatively poor ones, and then interview the latter—who may make better cooperating witnesses than defendants—to build stronger cases against the former.