How to Become Your Own Cybersleuth:Conducting Effective Internet Investigative & Background Research
December 2015
How to Become Your Own Cybersleuth: Conducting Effective Internet Investigative & Background Research
Featured Faculty: Carole Levitt, Esq., and Mark Rosch
Program Description
In this fast-paced investigative research seminar, you will learn to create more effective Internet searches to locate information crucial to your matters, which you might otherwise miss. We will reveal hidden Google search features and shortcuts to speed up your research. You will also learn to use free public record sites and sites with free "publicly available" information (including social media sites), for discovery, trial preparation, background checks, and for locating missing persons. Discover the advantages (and limitations) of data broker databases.
Don't be left behind in exploiting this gold mine of information that will assist you in meeting your investigative research and due diligence obligations, in addition to meeting your ethical duty to be conversant with the benefits and risks of technology.
Every attendee receives a copy of the newly updated edition of The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet, 13th Edition by Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch - a $64.95 value!
Agenda:
8:30 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:15 pm
Morning Session (Includes a 15 Minute Break)
Mastering Google for Investigative/Due Diligence Research
Learn How to Master for Investigative/Due Diligence Research
- Discover if lawyers have a duty to Google
- Create more effective searches to locate crucial information you might otherwise miss
- Learn what's new in Google search
- Discover hidden search features, secrets, and shortcuts
- Key into Google's "advanced search" menu to create more sophisticated and targeted searches
- Filter search results to find precise information
- Find addresses, phone, fax, and cell numbers for service of process, etc.
- Uncover news from current and archival sources
- Keep on top of your research using free alerts
- Find images and learn about reverse image searching
- Locate information from the "invisible" Web
- Learn why you need "cache"
The Wayback Machine
- Track down deleted or altered Web pages
- Find out how to get pages from the Wayback Machine admitted into evidence
Other Search Engines and Meta-Search Sites
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Lunch On Your Own
1:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Afternoon Session (Includes a 15 Minute Break)
Investigative/Due Diligence Research Strategies
Learn How to Search Like a Private Investigator
- Understanding key differences between public records, "publicly available" information, and "proprietary” information
- Glean personal information from search engines and blogs
- Learn to use inexpensive data broker databases to create dossiers about your subjects
- Develop more effective Internet investigative search strategies
- Find out how you can uncover driver’s license or vehicle records
- Mine the Web for missing people
- Dig up death records, birthdays, and Social Security Numbers
- Extract background information from dockets
- Unearth bankruptcies
Find Out How to Access Expensive Databases…for Free…to Find:
- Factual information
- Background information
- Full-text newspaper and magazine articles
- Press releases
Master Quick and Easy Methods to Retrieve Background Information From Public Records and Publicly Available Data From:
- Online telephone/address directories to obtain information for service of process, etc.
- Public record portals
- Criminal records and sex offender registries
- S.E.C. filings
- Expert witness directories
Discover How to Use Social Media Sites For Investigative Research
- Find out “secret” ways to ferret out information from social media profiles
- Successfully navigate through many social media sites to:
--obtain useful background/investigative information about parties, lawyers, judges, experts, jurors, and current & potential clients
--find information to attack a party or witness' credibility
--uncover fraud
--seek out the smoking gun
- Explore whether you can obtain social media profiles by subpoena
- Discover how to preserve the information you find
- Learn about overcoming social media discovery issues
- Find out how to authenticate social media profiles and get them admitted into evidence
4:30 pm
Adjourn
Location Information
CBA-CLE Small Classroom
1900 Grant Street, Suite 300
Denver, CO 80203
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1900 Grant Street, Suite 300
Denver, CO 80203
Registration Fees
| Non Member | $349.00 |
| CBA Member | $329.00 |
| Paralegal/Legal Support Staff | $229.00 |
| CLEACCESSPASS--BASIC Pass Holder | $30.00 |
| New Lawyer Edge Member | $0.00 |
| CLEACCESSPASS--ELITE Pass Holder | $0.00 |
- General Credits: 7.00
- Ethics Credits: 0.00
- EDI Credits:
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