What We Do
Our fact-gathering often begins well before any litigation is commenced and carries all the way through discovery and trial. We are accustomed to working on the tight schedules imposed by trial dates, discovery and other client requirements.- We gather cross-examination material to surprise opponents, opposing fact witnesses and experts.
- We find opponents' assets to determine which are worth suing and to help collect judgments.
- We identify, locate and interview witnesses, such as an opponent's former employees, who may have relevant knowledge.
- We trace people back in time and place, often uncovering a false picture they have presented of some aspect of themselves.
- We dig into opponents' patterns of behavior, find undisclosed ties among people and/or entities, and determine the origin of products, documents and ideas.
- Our computer forensics team undeletes employee emails and other files, and recreates from departed employees' computers their last days working for our client.
How We Connect The Dots
We are experts at gathering facts in ways that don't leave footprints and don't make waves.Much of our work involves developing evidence to be presented in court, so we are careful to use investigative methods that will bear scrutiny by judges and juries.
Many of our clients check Nexis, Google and other resources themselves before asking the Mintz Group to dig deeper. This saves the client money and assigns us only the investigative steps by which we add significant value.
The Mintz Group quietly follows the paper trails that business people leave behind. Our multilingual, diverse staff has built up substantial expertise in how to uncover hidden business information all over the world.
We view the interviewing of groups of witnesses as a journey. The research homework we do beforehand is like packing for the trip. We expect early interviews to provide us with a witness map of people we need to see, as well as friendly introductions to them from friends we've made along the way. By the time we arrive at the door at journey's end, the process will have taught us what to say to open it.
As professional interviewers, we get significantly more people to talk in significantly more detail than could someone for whom interviewing is not a primary responsibility. Former employees are often a good way to learn what really happened at a company we've been asked to investigate. Identifying who used to work where is a core competency of the Mintz Group, to which we devote significant resources and creativity.
